Prashant Saxena works as a Senior Lecturer (American equivalent of Associate Professor) in Engineering Physics at the University of Glasgow where he leads the Mechanics of Soft Solids research group. His research interests are in the mathematical and computational methods used to model complex nonlinear behaviour of soft solids and structures used in engineering. Recently, this research has been useful in solving problems in renewable energy harvesting, soft robotics, and biomedical applications.

His research on modelling nonlinear behaviour of dielectric/ magneto-rheological elastomers and thin elastic structures is published in the leading journals of the field and is widely used by the mechanics research community. This work has led to several awards including the New Investigator Award from EPSRC, the Early Career Research Award from SERB and the Ramanujan fellowship from SERB. Before coming to Glasgow, Prashant worked as a scientist in Germany, Switzerland, and India. As a high school student, he won a Gold medal at the Indian National Physics Olympiad and was ranked 2nd in the Regional Mathematics Olympiad for Rajasthan state, India. 

Prashant has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Glasgow, and studied Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.

LinkedIn Google Scholar Github