"We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size."
- Quote attributed to Bernard of Chartres
Explorations in science
We are surrounded by a myriad of solids, some crystalline, some amorphous. It is indeed fascinating if we wonder why they behave the way they do. My PhD was all about understanding the amazing spectrum of the startling behavior of ductile metals when they are slid past a tool at the scale of a few 100 microns to a few mm (mesoscale). The question of why the metals behaved the way they did owes to their polycrystalline nature - which is quite expected, considering the interaction scale. I was on a journey to understand amorphous solids with the hope to rediscover both amorphous and crystalline solids in a new light but then my postdoc term got ended. So, I am off to my new job applying mechanics to rocks!
Bio
A human being in awe with the beautiful things around - humanity in people, the astounding patterns and imagery of nature, art, travel, adventure, inter alia. Let me also introduce myself in the usual way we follow:
I am a research engineer in the charming though traffic-stuck town of Bangalore. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad with Prof. Smarajit Karmakar (and late Prof. Surajit Sengupta). I hold a PhD - full credit to my advisor Prof. Narayan K. Sundaram, from the Department of Civil Engineering, IISc.