Rajita Menon

Graduate Student Fellow, Physics, College of Arts & Sciences

Rajita Menon was named a Hariri Graduate Fellow in May, 2016. She is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Department of Physics. She uses a computational perspective to understand how physical constraints control the function of microbial communities. Her research focuses on game-theoretical modeling of nutrient exchange in microbial ecosystems, statistical learning for dysbiosis in chronic diseases of the gut, and predicting network properties that make microbial communities productive. Menon received her BS in Physics from the University of Delhi in 2010, and her MS in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi in 2012.