- PostDoctoral Research Associate, Ulijn and Chen Lab, Nanoscience Initiative
Vignesh Athiyarath, Ph.D.
Vignesh obtained B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from S.N.G.S. College Pattambi, (Kerala, India). He joined as a first Integrated MS-PhD student at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, in School of Chemistry. He completed PhD in 2020, working with Prof. Kana M. Sureshan. During PhD he worked on the synthesis of peptido- and carbohydrate-mimetics. He used topochemical polymerization strategy for the synthesis of peptidomimetics, and the conventional multi-step synthetic organic chemistry approach for the synthesis of carbohydrate-mimics. He also elucidated properties of these synthesized novel biomimetics in a material-chemistry and biological point of view. In 2021, he joined ASRC, CUNY (New York, USA) as a joined postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Rein Ulijn and Prof. Xi Chen. His work is focussed on development of chemo-mechanical peptide actuators by induced fit concept.
Publications
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Vignesh Athiyarath, Elma Naranjo, Dhwanit Dave, Osman Goni Ridwan, Danilo A. Arturo Rodriguez, Qiang Zhu, Marta Monti, Gonzalo Díaz Mirón, Debarshi Banerjee, Ali Hassanali, Michelle C. Neary, Eric G. Keeler, Sheng Zhang, Rein V. Ulijn*, Xi Chen*. Water-mediated reconfigurable topology and mechanics in porous peptide materials. Matter, 9, 102669 (2026). |
Kübra Kaygisiz, Deborah Sementa, Vignesh Athiyarath, Xi Chen and Rein V. Ulijn*. Context dependence in assembly code for supramolecular peptide materials and systems. Nature Reviews Materials 10, 449-472 (2025). |
Maheen K. Khan, Vignesh Athiyarath, Darjan Podbevšek, Yeojin Jung, Seungri Kim, Yuchen Zhang, Gonca Kilavuz-Ecker, Raymond S. Tu, and Xi Chen*. Modulating water-responsive actuation energy of regenerated silk fibroin via tyrosine modification. Soft Matter 21, 4150-4155 (2025). |
N. Berisha, A. Farahpour, M. Ramakrishnan, C. Chen, S. A. McPhee, T. Wang, T.-D. Li, K. Hema, M. Panagiotakopoulou, V. Athiyarath, M. Coste, Y. Marciano, E. Sherman, R. V Ulijn, D. A Heller, “Directed discovery of high-loading nanoaggregates enabled by drug-matched oligo-peptide excipients”, Chem, 2025 |
