Dr. Vijayakumar Chikkadi (PI)Assistant Professor (2017-present)Post-doc 2017, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart.Post-doc 2015, ENS Lyon, France.PhD 2011, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

PhD students

Pragya Kushwaha PhD student, 2018-Active matter, Optical tweezers
Ratimanasee Sahu PhD Student, 2019-Colloidal glasses,Optical tweezers
Sayan MaityPhD student, 2020-Active matter, Microfluidics
Manish KumarPhD student, 2024-Colloidal glasses

BS-MS students


Shantanu Raikwar2023-2024Active matter

Alumni

BS - MS students
1) Atharva Pandit , 2019-2020, currently at FAU, Erlangen, Germany
2) Karthika Krishna Kumar,  2019-2020,  currently at Konstanz University, Germany
3) Ashish Joy, 2019-2020, currently at Memorial Univeristy of Newfoundland, Canada
4) Abhishek Gupta, 2021-2022, currently at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
5) Eeshan Ghaisas, 2022-2023, currently at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
6) Rhutwik Skanda,  2022-2023, currently at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany 7) Anjaly Menon, 2022-2023, currently at Aalto University, Finland
8) Sagar Malik, 2021-2023, currently working for industry
Independent scientists
1) Antina Ghosh, 2019-2022.