Aradhana Chopra is an academician associated with the Policy Change Initiative. She has done her PhD in Biophysics from Technical University Munich, Germany. During her PhD days, she has worked as a research scientist. She did her M.Tech in Nanotechnology from IIT Roorkee. Before that, she has received an Engineering degree in Biotechnology from Panjab University Chandigarh. She is the recipient of the prestigious Marie Curie fellowship awarded by the European Union for doing her PhD. Even during her Master’s program at IIT Roorkee, she received the Ministry of Human Resource Development scholarship from the Govt. of India.

Her research interests include a host of interrelated areas ranging from data science, artificial intelligence to biomimetic 3D RNA nanostructures, Nanotechnology and DNA. She also designed and developed a novel strategy for drug delivery using nucleic acids which were published in high impact factor academic journal Nanoletters. She has worked on a number of research projects on specific topics like life sciences with potential applications in healthcare. She has also presented and published papers in many reputed conferences and journals internationally. A few notable mentions are; In vitro RNA aggregation at CeNS Workshop 2017 Design and Control of NanoSystems, Venice, Italy; Mimicking the condensation of biological DNA for folding DNA nanostructures and their delivery via electroporation at FNANO conference 2016, Snowbird, Salt Lake City, USA; Aradhana Chopra, et al. Electrotransfection of Polyamine folded DNA Origami Structures. Nano letters, 2016; Aradhana Chopra et al. Aptamer as an emerging player in biology. Aptamers Syn Antibodies, 2014; Aradhana Chopra, TK Sharma et al. Aptamer nanoparticles based for bacterial detection and Book Chapter, Nanosensing, Vol 10, 2013, Nanotechnology Series, Studium Press LLC.

She worked as a Scientific Associate at the Technical University of Munich, Germany from the Sept of 2016 to Aug 2018 where she initiated a project to develop biomimetic 3D RNA nanostructures, designed 8+ new structures targeting different substrates, optimizing their synthesis and characterization.

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