Vinay Joshi is a material scientist with a special interest in soft materials like polymers and liquid crystals. Vinay is currently working at Schlumberger as a Senior Polymer Engineer supporting the manufacturing of power cables for oil and gas industry in downhole applications. 

Before Schlumberger, Vinay worked at Folio Photonics - a startup developing optical data storage solutions for archival applications. Vinay led the materials team to develop process for extruded multilayer polymer film and prototype of data storage disc thereof. He was instrumental in developing materials for demonstrating optical data writing in single layer polymer thin film and extruded 16-layer polymer film.       

Vinay holds Ph.D. (Chemical Physics) from Kent State University (USA), MS (Polymer Science) from Martin Luther Universiteit (Germany)  and B. Engg. (Polymer Science) from University of Pune (India).