Teaching

Course Taught

Taught courses for undergraduate and graduate students:

  • Electrodynamics
  • Statistical Physics
  • Classical Mechanics
  • Simple and Complex Fluids
  • Computational Physics and Numerical Methods
  • Parallel programming using OpenMP, MPI and CUDA

Video Course

  • Video course on Numerical methods and programming
  • Total of 38 lectures is available through NPTEL 
  • It has been viewed over  more than 100,000+ times. 
  • Total of 38 lectures is available through NPTEL 
  • It has been viewed over  more than 100,000+ times. 

Book Authored

  • Co-authored an NPTEL web course on Numerical methods and programming

Research Supervision

  • Supervised the doctoral thesis of 14 students
  • Currently 3 more are working for their Ph.D.,
  • Also supervised many Master’s level and B.Tech
  • Research projects in Physics, chemical engineering

Publications

  • 83 – Papers in refereed international journals
  • 4 – Books chapters
  • Book edited : Rheology of Complex Fluids – Springer 2010

Present Ph.D guidance

Research Scholar NameCo-guideThesis TitleYear
Siji S SajuDynamics of Active Polymers2022
Aathira MuraliProf.Dillip Satapathy, Physics, IITMShape Morphism & Swelling Kinetics of Responsive Biopolymer Membrane 2022
Sandeep MathewEffects of inclusion mediated activity on membranes2022

Past Ph.D guidance

Research Scholar NameCo-guideThesis TitleYear
Sachin Krishnan T V Shape Transformations in Active Membranes2019
Raj Kumar MannaProf. Ronojoy Adhikari, IMSc, ChennaiDynamics of Active Polymers2017
Swaminath BharadwajProf. Abhijit Deshpande, Chemical Engineering, IITMLower Critical Solution Temperature of Thermo-responsive Polymers.2017
Ankita PandeyDr. Aditi SimhaHydrodynamics Of Active Systems 2016
Sreeja K KConformational changes in lipid bilayer membranes induced by active and passive inclusions: A computer simulation study 2016
Madhusmita TripathyProf.Abhijit Deshpande, Chemical Engineering, IITMCoarse grained potentials for macromolecular simulations2016
Prathyusha K. RCoarse-Grained Simulation Studies Of Some Externally Driven Soft Matter Systems 2013
Ramakrishnan NEffect Of In-Plane Order And Activity On Vesicular Morphology 2011
Jayasree KProf. Suresh Govindarajan, Physics Equilibrium And Dynamical Properties A Single Polyelectrolyte Chain 2010
Jasna Urbanija Prof. Veronika Kralj-Iglic, University of Ljubljana. Solvenia Mediated Interactions Between Biological Membranes2010
Sanoop RamachandranCoarsed-Grained Simulation Studies Of Active Fluids 2009
Snigdha ThakurInvestigations On The Dynamical Properties Of Liquid Crystals And Living Polymers 2009
K. C. Lakshmi Simulation Studies of Fluid Mixtures, Liquid Crystals and Membranes2005
P. RanjithStatistical Mechanics of Semiflexible Polymers: a study of single filaments 2005