Research Interest

 

Tools

  • Time dependent statistical mechanical theories with long range and microscopic interactions.
  • Molecular Dynamic simulations.
  • Monte Carlo Simulation.

Development

  • Development of new theories and extension of the existing ones to decribe dynamics in supercooled liquids.
  • Dynamics in supercooled liquid regime. Interplay between diffusion and activated motion.
  • Interaction potential and its effect on the dynamics
  • Relation between thermodynamics and dynamics in glassy system.
  • Diffusion through porous medium.

Professional Experience

  • October 2019- Present  Senior Principal Scientist (Professor ACSIR), Polymer Science and Engineering Division, National ChemicalLaboratory , Pune, India.
  • October 2014- October 2019 Principal Scientist(Associate Professor), Polymer Science and Engineering Division, National ChemicalLaboratory , Pune, India.
  • Oct 2010- Oct 2014: Senior Scientis (Assintant Professor, AcSIR) Polymer Science and Engineering Division, National Chemical Laboratory , Pune, India.
  • 2010- DST young scientist fellow.
  • (2004-2009) Post doc. at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, collaborating with Prof. Peter G. Wolynes from UCSD , USA
  • (2002-2003) Post doc. at LMS , California Institute of Technology,Pasadena,U.S.A. with Prof Ahmed Zewail and Prof Zeng Gang Wang
  • (2000-2002) Post doc. at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  • (1994-2000) Ph. D (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Advisor: Prof. Biman Bagchi)

 

Conferences Attended & Organized

  • Speaker at NAtional Conference Compflu 2021 IIT Gandhinagar (Dec 2021)
  • Invited Speaker at National symposium TCS 2021, IISER Kolkata (Dec 2021)
  • Invited speaker at DAE symposium CTTS 2020 at BARC, Mumbai (Oct 2021)
  • Invited to deliver a Institu Colloquium at the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences , Kolkata (Sep. 2021)
  • Invited speaker at SNCB seminar series (June 2021)
  • Speaker at National Confrence Compflu 2020 at IIT Mumbai (Dec 2020)
  • Speaker at 7th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting at ICTS, Bengalore, (Feb 2020)
  • Co-organiser and speaker at a conference A Day Out with Chemical Dynamics: IISc Bangalore, (Feb 2020)
  • Invited speaker at SSCU Alumni Symposium 2019 at IISc, Bangalore (Dec 2019)
  • Speaker at Recent Topic in Statistical Mechanics 19 at NISER Bhuneshwar (Dec 2019)
  • Session Organiser and Chair of Nation Conference Compflu 2019 at IISER Bhopal (Dec 2019)
  • Invited Speaker in International workshop "Viscous liquids and the glass transition. XVI. at Holbk, Denmark (May 2019)
  • Invited Speaker in International conference "DYNAMICS AT THE INTERFACE OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY", at IISc, Bengaluru, (Feb 2019)
  • Speaker in National Meeting "6th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting" at ICTS, Bengaluru, (Feb 2019) 
  • Invited Speaker in International conference "DYNAMICS AT THE INTERFACE OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY", at IISc, Begaluru (Feb 2019)
  • Speaker in National Meeting "6th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting" at ICTS, Bengaluru (Feb 2019)
  • Invited Speaker in International conference "SPSI-MACO-2018", IISCER, Pune (Dec 2018)
  • Speaker in International workshop Entropic effect in self, driven and directed assembly at ICTS, Bengaluru (Aug 2018)
  • Invited Speaker in National Conference "CHEMISTRY: TODAY AND TOMORROW", Kalyani University, West Bengal (July 2018)
  • Organized and Chaired the glass session in nation level conference Compflu 2017 at IIT Madras (2017)
  • Invited speaker in meeting titled "8th International Discussion Meeting On Relaxation in Complex Systems" , Wisla, Poland,  (2017)
  • Invited speaker in Indo-French meeting titled "Plasticity, Rheology and Nonlinear response in Driven Amorphous Solids" , Grenoble, France, (2017)
  • Invited speaker in  meeting titled "Correlation and Disorder in Classical and Quantum Systems " , ICTS, Bangalore, India (2017)
  • Invited speaker in international meeting titled “Viscous liquids and the glass transition", Roskilde Univ, Denmark (2016) 
  • Co-convenor of Complex Fuilds-COMPFLU 2016.
  • Speaker in "Growing length scale phenomena in condensed matter physics",  JNCASR, Bangalore Oct 2015.
  • Invited speaker CECAM Germany, July 2015.
  • Given a seminar at University of Cambridge , May 2015.
  • Speaker in 4th workshop on Dynamics of viscous liquid, France ,May 2015
  • Invited to speak in Soft matter meeting, Hyderabad 2014.
  • Invited speaker in DCCBS (Dynamics of Complex Chemical and Biological system) ,IIT Kanpur 2014.
  • Invited speaker in Symposium on Fragility, Bangalore 2014.
  • Invited to speak in Mumbai-pune soft matter Meeting at IIT Bombay 2013.
  • Invited to speak in Soft matter meeting, IIT Guwahati 2012.
  • Oral presentation in the International conference on Unifying Concepts in Glass Transition V, held at Paris, France (2011).
  • Invited to speak in Bangalore Area Statistical Mechanics meeting 2009.
  • Invited speaker in TCS, will be held at IISc and JNCASR, Bangalore, India (2008).24
  • Oral presentation in the International conference on Unifying Concepts in Glass TransitionIV, held at Kyoto, Japan (2008).
  • Invited speaker in a Symposium, Chemical Dynamics in Complex System, held at Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India(2008).
  • Invited speaker in TCS held in BARC, Mumbai, India (2004).
  • Presented poster in STATPHYS 22 held in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore(2004).
  • Invited speaker in the International conference on Unifying Concepts in Glass TransitionIII, held at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India (2004).
  • Presented poster in the International conference on ”Slow Dynamics and Glass Transition”,held at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India (2002).
  • Attended the International conference on ”Structure and Dynamics in Complex Chemical Systems”, held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2001).
  • Presented poster and attended the ”Spring College on Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics of Soft Condensed Matter”, in ICTP, Trieste, Italy (1998).
  • Presented poster in the International conference on ”Ultrafast Chemical Phenomena”, held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1998).
  • Presented poster in the International conference on ”Structure and Dynamics of Materials in the Mesoscopic Domain”, held at National Chemical Laboratory , Pune, India (1997).