Pragathi Gurumurthy is a design assurance lead at Resyca GmbH located in Munich, Germany. She is responsible for ensuring compliance with all design control requirements of medical devices. Before joining Resyca in 2022, Pragathi was pursuing her doctoral studies at the University of Lübeck, Germany on ‚Experimental investigation of airflow in the upper airway of patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea ‘. Her work focused on fabricating patient-specific 3D printed upper airway models and developing methods for studying the flow of biofluids using 4D flow MRI. During her time at the university, she has presented her work at several noted international conferences.
Pragathi received her master's degree from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures in 2015. During her master's thesis, she worked on the calibration of ultrasound transducers to monitor the dynamic movements of the residual femur in the transfemoral socket. She earned her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Nitte University, India in 2013.