Karthika Haridas is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University since Fall 2023. She holds a M.S. in Chemistry from Manipal Institute of Technology (India) and B.S. in Chemistry from Sree Kerala Varma College affiliated with Calicut University (India). Prior to joining Purdue, she also worked as Project Associate at the Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering, IISC on 3D Heterogeneous Integrated Micro-Nano Scale Devices. She enjoys reading books.