Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi (born 1974) is an Indian chemical engineer, rheologist and the Pandit Girish & Sushma Rani Pathak Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his studies on metastable soft matter and is an elected fellow of the Society of Rheology, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Academy of Engineering. In 2015, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded Joshi the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for his contributions to Engineering Sciences. Biography Yogesh Joshi was born on 29 December 1974 in Ahmednagar, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Joshi completed graduate studies in polymer engineering at the Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune after earning a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree from the University of Pune in 1996. He started his career as a project assistant at the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) the same year. After a year of service, he enrolled for doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, performing research at NCL as a research fellow. Completing his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 2001, Joshi moved to the United States to pursue postdoctoral studies at the Benjamin Levich Institute (2001–2004). On his return to India in 2004, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT) as an assistant professor; he became an associate professor in 2009. He continues his service at IIT Kanpur as a professor in the department of chemical engineering. He was the C . V. Seshadri Chair position in the department during 2015–2018. Since 2021 he is Pandit Girish & Sushma Rani Pathak Chair Professor During his service at IIT Kanpur, he held two fellowships, the Faculty Research Fellowship during 2009–2012 and the P. K. Kelkar Faculty Research Fellowship from 2013 to 2016. He also served as a visiting professor at the University of Maine in 2008, at the University of Edinburgh in 2010, the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL), Greece in May 2015 and at the Institute of Chemical Technology in June 2015 as Shri V. V. Mariwala visiting professor. Joshi is a senior editor of Langmuir and is on the editorial advisory board of Physics of Fluids, Rheologica Acta, and Journal of Rheology. Research Joshi's research includes contributions to the fields of the structure and dynamics of colloidal glasses and gels,