PEOPLE

Experiences: 

• Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Ropar, Nov 2021 – onwards.

• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Ropar, December 2015 – November 2021.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Ropar, February 2010 – December 2015.

Awards/Recognitions

1. JBS Medal (2023-24), Indian Society of Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (ISMMACS). 

2. Fellow of Indian Society of Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (ISMMACS). 

3. Elected  Fellow of National Academy of Science, India (2021)

4. Frontier Award of The Division of Fluid-Particle Processing of the Society of Chemical Engineers of Japan (2021)

5. Best paper award, Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics Award (2020)

6. JSPS (Japan Society of Promotional Science) Invitation Fellowship (2015, 2019).

7. Honorary professor of Global Innovation Research, Tokyo University Agriculture & Technology (TUAT), Japan.

8. Visiting researcher at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, June 2019, December 2023.

9. P.L. Bhatanagar memorial award of the Indian Mathematical Society (2018)

10. Elected  Member of National Academy of Science, India (2018)

11. Associate faculty at Dept of Chemical Engineering, IIT Ropar, April 2017 – September 2019.

12. JSPS Invitation fellow at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, May – July, 2015.

13. Visiting research faculty at PMMH, ESPCI Paris Tech, Paris, France, November-December, 2014.

14. Research fellow of FNRS (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium) with Professor Anne De Wit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, December 2008 – February 2010.

15. Research fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), at Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, September 2007 – November 2008.

16. Postdoctoral research fellow with Professor Anne De Wit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, March 2006 – August 2007.

17. Postdoctoral research fellow (fellowship from French National Ministry of Education and Research) with Dr. Philippe MAISSA, in INLN, CNRS UMR 6618, Sophia Antipolis, France, March 2005 – February 2006.

18. NBHM Postdoctoral research fellow in Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, August 2004 – February 2005.

    Scientific Recognitions:

1.   Paper titled “Fingering instability and mixing of a blob in porous media” was selected for Kaleidoscope of Physical Review E for the October 2016.

2. Paper titled “Single diffusive magnetohydrodynamic pressure driven miscible displacement flows in a channel”, was selected as “Editor’s Pick” Physics of Fluids  in the July 2019.

3. Chaired technical session “Complex Thermofluid System” at 14th International conference on flow dynamics (ICFD2017), Nov 1-3, 2017, Sendai, Japan.

4. Chaired technical session “Complex Thermofluid System” at 12th International conference on flow dynamics (ICFD2015), October 27 - 29, 2015, Sendai, Japan.

5. Chaired the technical session "Instability: Interfacial and Thin Film IV" at 63rd Annual Meeting of APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 21-23, 2010, Long Beach, California, USA. 

6. International Advisory Committee member of International Conference on “Recent Advances in Engineering and Computational Sciences” 6-8 March 2014, Punjab University, Chandigarh.

7. Chaired the technical session “FM8: Flow Through Porous Media” at "57th congress of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM 2012)", December17-20, Pune, India.

Organizing Scientific Activities:

8.     Course coordinator for GIAN programme on “Interfacial Instability with Industrial Applications” July 11-24, 2022, MOE, Govt of India.

9. Course coordinator for GIAN programme on "Hydrodynamic Stability: Theory, Computation and Applications" December 11-15, 2017 at IIT Ropar sponsored by MOE (formly MHRD), Govt of India.

10.  Organized “Postgraduate level training programme on differential equations” May 16 - June 4, 2016, of the NPDE-TCA, sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

Collaborators

International:

• Prof. Anne De Wit, University Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

• Prof. Michel Martin, PMMH-ESPCI, Paris, France

• Prof. C. Y. Chen, NYCU, Taiwan

• Prof. Yuichro Nagatsu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

• Prof. M. C. Kim, Jeju National University, Korea

• Prof. Andre Thess,  Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics, DLR, Germany

• Prof. A. Delgado, LSTM-Erlangen, Germany

• Prof. F. Durst, LSTM-Erlangen, Germany

• Dr. Philippe Maissa, Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonne, University of Nice, Nice, France

• Prof. P. M. J. Trevelyan, Aston University, United Kingdom

With in India:

• Prof. Kamal P Singh, Dept of Physics, IISER Mohali

• Prof. Kirti C. Sahu, Dept of Chem Engg, IIT Hyderabad

• Dr. K. C. Jena, Dept of Physics, IIT Ropar

• Dr. Vishwajeet Mehendia, Dept of Chem Engg, IIT Ropar

• Dr. Satyajit Pramanik, Dept of Marthematics, IIT Guwahati

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Member of European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH)

• Member of American Physical Society (APS)

• Member of American Physical Society (Division of Fluid Dynamics) (APS-DFD)

• Member of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM)

• Member of Indian Society of Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulations.