Our group broadly focusses on two independent research directions - physics of polymeric soft materials, and of living systems like bacteria. Included in these directions are the following projects:

Polymeric Soft Materials

• Interfacial engineering to control the stability of thin fluid films including polymer films

• Harnessing nonequilibrium pathways to control the dispersion behavior in polymer nanocomposites

• Structure formation and dynamics of polymers in evaporating solutions

Living systems

• Spreading of active solutions

• Structure formation and dynamics of bacterial biofilms across length scales

• Swarming and other collective modes of bacterial dynamics