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Siddhant Mohapatra is a Prime Minister Research Fellow currently pursuing his doctorate in Thermal Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He works towards modelling collective motion in living and active matter under the guidance of Dr. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra. He completed his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Silchar in 2019. His research interests include biophysics, active matter and emergent dynamics. 

Journals :

1. (Pre-print) Mohapatra, S., & Mahapatra, P. S., 2023. Flock response to sustained asynchronous predator attacks. bioRxiv, 2023-11. Available at DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.14.567144

2. (Pre-print) Mohapatra, S., Pandula, S., Mondal, S., and Mahapatra, P. S., 2022. Emergence of synchronisation and segregation in a binary active mixture. Preprint available at SSRN: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4105110

3. Mohapatra, S., Mondal, S., and Mahapatra, P. S., 2020. Spatiotemporal dynamics of a self-propelled system with opposing alignment and repulsive forces. Physical Review E, 102(4), 042613. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.042613

4. Mohapatra, S. and Mahapatra, P. S., 2019. Confined System Analysis of a Predator-Prey Minimalistic Model. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 11258. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47603-9 

Conferences and workshops :

1. Mohapatra, S., Rahmani P., Mahapatra,  P. S., and Peruani, F., An agent-based model for targeted herd movement controlled by a shepherding agent, Rencontres du Vietnam on Soft Matter, Fluids and Interfaces, ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, Jun. 9-15, 2024.

2. Mohapatra, S., Rahmani, P., Mahapatra, P. S., and Peruani, F., Revisiting the shepherding problem: An exercise in agent-based modelling, APS March Meeting 2024, Minneapolis, USA, Mar. 3-8, 2024.

3. Mohapatra, S., and Mahapatra, P. S., Flock response to sustained asynchronous predator attacks, New Perspectives in Active Systems, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, Apr. 24-28, 2023.

4. Mohapatra, S., and Mahapatra, P. S., Active matter in sync, Active Days EUTOPIA – Challenges in Active Matter, CY Cergy Paris University, France, Dec. 5-7, 2022.

5. Mohapatra, S., and Mahapatra, P. S., Predation: effect of hunting tactics in a competitive environment, Mini-Workshop on Collective Animal Behaviour, CY Cergy Paris University, France, Nov. 3-4, 2022.

6. Mohapatra, S., and Mahapatra, P. S., Spatiotemporal analysis of active matter systems, International Workshop on Active Systems, IIT Madras, Jun. 8-9, 2022.

7. Mohapatra, S., Harikrishnan, S., Mondal, S. and Mahapatra, P. S., Dynamical analysis of a system of active disks with competing interaction rules, Complex Fluids 2020, IIT Bombay and Indian Society of Rheology, Dec. 10-12, 2020. 

8. Mohapatra, S.,  Mondal, S., and Mahapatra, P. S., Dynamical analysis of an active matter system with competing alignment and repulsion, Motile Active Matter, DFG Priority Programme SPP 1726: Microswimmers – From Single Particle Motion to Collective Behaviour, Bonn, Germany, Oct. 26-29, 2020.

Book chapters :

1. Jacob, T., Mohapatra, S., and Mahapatra, P. S., Activity-Induced Mixing in a Stratified Binary Passive System, in: Singh, K.M., Dutta, S., Subudhi, S., Singh, N.K. (eds) Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Volume 2. FMFP 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore, 2024, ISBN: 9789819957521.

2. Mohapatra, S., Pandula, S., and Mahapatra, P. S., Segregation in size bi-dispersed system of active particles, in: Application of Soft Computing Techniques in Mechanical Engineering. i-CONECTS 2021. CRC Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781003257691.

3. Mohapatra, S., Gupta, C., Nath, S., and Bhanja, D., A Numerical Study on Microchannel Cooling for Photovoltaic Cells, in: Biswal, B.B., Sarkar, B.K., Mahanta, P. (eds) Advances in Mechanical Engineering. IC-RIDME 2018. Springer, Singapore, 2020, ISBN: 9789811501241.

Awards and recognition :

1. Awarded the International Immersion Experience award by Office of Global Engagement, IIT Madras, in May 2022.

2. Awarded the Prime Minister Research Fellowship in May 2019 by MHRD, Government of India.

3. Featured in the article What determines the prey survival to a predator attack in a closed space: IIT Madras researchers answer published in IITM Tech Talks (Link).