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Research Interests

After earning Ph.D from the Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, India, in 2021, I moved to the Biorobotics Institute at Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy, for a postdoctoral fellowship in 2022. During my doctoral thesis, I extensively worked on self-propelled artificial swimmers known as camphor rotors. These centi-metre-sized self-moving particles interested me in the active matter at small scales. Currently, at the Microscale Robotics laboratory, I am exploring micron-sized particles from the microscope's lens. I am keen to know the self-organization of Janus colloids in the microchambers and the effect of the curved micro confinement on their dynamics. I am using Microfabrication techniques for the experiments and Active Brownian particle simulations in Julia to answer this question.

My current research is a part of the CELLOIDS: Cell-inspired particle-based intelligent microrobots project. 

Research experience

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

(August 2022  - Present): Istituto di BioRobotica - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna [Pisa, Italy]

(October 2021  - July 2022): Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay [Mumbai, Maharashtra]

Assistant Professor

(July 2013  - May 2014): Dev Samaj College for Women [Firozpur, Punjab]

Education

Ph. D. in Physics (2015  - 2021) - Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay [Mumbai, Maharashtra]

M.Sc. in Physics (2011-2013) - Department of Physics, Punjabi University [Patiala, Punjab]

B.Sc. in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (2011-2013) - Dev Samaj College for Women [Firozpur, Punjab]