Sonali Gandhi is a Biophysicist and received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in physics from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics at the Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Prior to joining LTU, she worked at the Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, as a postdoctoral researcher and currently is an Associate in the same to continue her research collaboration. She started LTU’s department of natural sciences as an assistant professor of physics from Fall 2024 onwards.

During Sonali’s Ph.D. at Wayne state, she developed new biophysical methods to measure the correlated diffusion of membrane-bound biomolecules. She applied these methods to reveal the ligand dependent co-diffusion of proteins on the surface of lipid droplets to study membrane organization and dynamics. As a postdoc at Harvard, Sonali worked on the physico-chemical nature of interactions between D.melanogaster  Oskar protein and its associated lipids. A list of Gandhi’s publications is available at Google Scholar.

Her research interest involves a broad area of membrane biophysics, protein-lipid interactions on model liposomes using various quantitative fluorescence techniques.

Apart from work Sonali loves travelling and spending time with her husband and two kids.