Manish is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee. He obtained his B.E. from Mumbai University, M.E. from Walchand College of Engineering, and PhD from IIT Bombay, all three in Mechanical Engineering discipline. Prior to joining IIT Roorkee as an Assistant Professor in 2012, Manish worked as a Research Scientist at General Motors’ India Science Lab in Bengaluru. His broad research interests include computational mechanics, nonlinear elasticity, and structural dynamics. In particular, his research group at IIT Roorkee has been active in addressing the mechanics of soft active materials both theoretically and experimentally, with a specific focus on biomimetic engineering. He has about 40 papers published in various international journals and conferences of repute. Manish is the recipient of the 2018 IIT Roorkee Outstanding Teacher Award and the 2019 Institute Research Fellowship for the Outstanding Young Faculty.