Dr. Vineet Augustine

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Vineet Augustine received his BS-MS from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata in 2013 and completed his PhD at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in 2019. His exemplary PhD work earned him the prestigious Scripps Fellowship, allowing him to skip the traditional postdoc route and start his own lab at Scripps Research in La Jolla in 2019. In 2022, his lab moved to the University of California, San Diego. Augustine's research has garnered attention from multiple news outlets including The New York Times, Scientific American, and National Public Radio, and his work has even attracted the interest of the NIH Director who has written a personal blog about his research. His laboratory's overarching theme is to understand how various peripheral neurons influence cardiac physiology and how heart signals impact brain activity, aiming to bridge the gap between cardiology and neuroscience.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of California, San Diego

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:120
Overall
Required:120
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in physical, biological, or earth sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Differential and integral calculus. One year of calculus-based physics with laboratory. One year of chemistry with laboratory.
Application Checklist
  • Statement of Purpose (max 2 pages)
  • Unofficial transcripts
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Application fee ($135 domestic / $155 international)
Specialization Notes

Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).