Shravan is a postdoctoral researcher working with Doug Jerolmack (Penn Soft Earth Dynamics Lab) and Paulo Arratia (Penn Complex Fluids Lab) at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests lie in the “Water-Energy-Food Nexus”, where he aims to use sustainable earth-inspired soft materials towards: (i) replacing materials derived from hydrocarbon-based feedstocks to establish a circular economy; (ii) accelerating technologies in climate-resilient and precision agriculture; and (iii) generating experimental data-driven constitutive models for hierarchical soft materials. Shravan employs a materials geomimicry approach, which aims at the synthetic reconstitution of hierarchical soil structures, by deconstructing the multiscale mechanics of natural earth materials, using laboratory analogs. This convergent scientific approach sits at the intersection of soft particulate rheo-tribology, colloid and surface science, materials chemistry, sustainable geomaterials, living matter-mediated transport, non-linear dynamics, and experimental “big data”.