As a 2025 Schmidt Science Fellow, Anusree is pivoting from organic polymers to the interface of inorganic porous materials and synthetic biology. She aims to develop new materials-based strategies to control how essential gases move through aqueous environments where engineered biology operates.
Her current work focuses on dispersions of porous inorganic particles in water and complex biological media, specifically on quantifying how particle–water interfaces shape gas transport under biologically relevant conditions. She uses photosynthetic microbes, including cyanobacteria, as a model system to connect transport physics to biological function and performance in genetically modifiable systems.
More broadly, her research builds a bridge between materials chemistry and living systems by treating transport at interfaces as an engineering handle that can be tuned, measured, with long-term relevance to biological carbon capture and conversion where gas transport in water often limits performance.