Dr. Venketesh (Venky) Ranganathan

Education

• MSc in Physics, IIT Madras, India
• MSc in Clinical Medical Biophysics (CAMPEP), Western University, Canada
• PhD in Physics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Research Interests

• Radiation treatment for breast cancer, Lung SBRT, Biophysics, Soft Matter Physics  

Academic Interests

• Radiation Physics Lectures for Radiation Oncology residents

Awards and Honours

• Jerry Battista Award, COMP Annual Scientific Meeting                                         
• Kerala Science Slam Regional Winner, Talking research to general public   
• Best oral presentation award, PET/MR workshop University of San Diago, California         
• Graduate Academic Excellence Award, International Student Resource Center, MUN
• Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies, School of Graduate Studies, MUN
• MITACS Globalink Research Award to carry out research internship at CNRS France
• Burtons Pond Award, Second highest honor for the best student leader in Memorial housing

Recent publications

• Venketesh Ranganathan, Amy Gouthro, and Tynan Stevens. “Using deformable registration to assess dosimetric impact of variability in Deep Inspiration Breath Hold (DIBH) levels for left breast treatment”. In: Accepted for publication: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (2026).
• Michael Roumeliotis, Heather Warkentin, Lesley Buckley, Steven Babic, Nathan Becker, Amanda Cherpak, Venketesh Ranganathan, Kundan Thind, Andrea McNiven, Andrew Alexander, et al. “Competency-based simulation and evaluation in medical education: clinical decision making and reference dosimetry”. In: International Journal of Radiation Oncology* Biology* Physics (2026).
• Stephen J Spencer, Venketesh Thrithamara Ranganathan, Anand Yethiraj, and G Todd Andrews. “Concentration dependence of elastic and viscoelastic properties of aqueous solutions of Ficoll and bovine serum albumin by Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy”. In: Langmuir 40.9 (2024), pp. 4615–4622.
• Venketesh Thrithamara Ranganathan, Saman Bazmi, Stefan Wallin, Yun Liu, and Anand Yethiraj. “Is Ficoll a colloid or polymer? A multitechnique study of a prototypical excludedvolume macromolecular crowder”. In: Macromolecules 55.20 (2022), pp. 9103–9112.
• Chandeshwar Misra, Venketesh T Ranganathan, and Ranjini Bandyopadhyay. “Influence of medium structure on the physicochemical properties of aging colloidal dispersions investigated using the synthetic clay LAPONITE®”. In: Soft Matter 17.41 (2021), pp. 9387–9398.
• PM Geethu, Venketesh T Ranganathan, and Dillip K Satapathy. “Inferences on hydrogen bond networks in water from isopermitive frequency investigations”. In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 30.31 (2018), p. 315103.
• Venketesh Thrithamara Ranganathan and Ranjini Bandyopadhyay. “Effects of aging on the yielding behaviour of acid and salt induced Laponite gels”. In: Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 522 (2017), pp. 304–309.