Dean of School of Engineering, Elaine and Jack S. Parker Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Shekhar Garde is the Dean of Engineering and the Elaine S. and Jack S. Parker Chaired Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research focuses on understanding the role of water in biological interactions. He has published over 90 papers (cited 6300+ times) and presented 135 invited talks at leading universities and conferences. He won the NSF CAREER Award (2001), and Rensselaer Early Career Award (2004), and was the 2011 Robert W. Vaughan Lecturer at CalTech. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (2014) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2015)
Connecting Non-Gaussian Water Density Fluctuations to the Lengthscale Dependent Crossover in Hydrophobic Hydration, Imee Sinha, Steven M. Cramer, Henry S. Ashbaugh, Shekhar Garde, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 126, 2022, pp.7604-7614
Bridging Gaussian Density Fluctuations from Microscopic to Macroscopic Volumes: Applications to Non-Polar Solute Hydration Thermodynamics, Henry S. Ashbaugh, Mayank Vats, Shekhar Garde, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125, 2021, pp.8152-8164
The Role of Ligand-Ligand Interactions in Multimodal Ligand Conformational Equilibria and Surface Pattern Formation, Camille L. Bilodeau, Edmond Y. Lau, Steven M. Cramer, Shekhar Garde, Langmuir, 36, 2020, pp.9054-9063
Sticky when dry, Shekhar Garde, Nature Chemistry, 12, 2020, pp.587-588
Formation of Ligand Clusters on Multimodal Chromatographic Surfaces, Camille L. Bilodeau, Edmond Y. Lau, David Roush, Shekhar Garde, Steven M. Cramer, Langmuir, 35, 2019, pp.16770-16779