Nirmal Mazumder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biophysics at Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal, Karnataka, India. Prior to this Dr. Mazumder was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Nanophysics and NeuroBrain Technology, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy. His main research interests include spectroscopic and microscopic characterization of starch granules, development of optical microscopes, biodegradable elastomeric microfluidics and machine learning approaches for tissue characterization. He has published more than 60 journal articles, 21 book chapters, 7 books and 4 patents.