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Principal Investigator
Dr. Shubhadeep Mandal
Assistant Professor, ME, IISc, Bengaluru, Sept 2022 - present
Research Interest: Microfluidics and Microswimmers
Email: smandal@iisc.ac.in | Phone: +918022932484
Office: 103, ME Building | Lab: 207 and 209, PE Building
Group Members at IISc
Dr. Rahul Roy
NPDF (funded by ANRF), Apr 2024 -
IoE Postdoc, Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
Research Associate, Jul 2023 - Jan 2024
Research Interest: Rheology of active suspensions
Email: rahulroy12@iisc.ac.in
Mr. Rupayan Jana
PhD student, Aug 2022 -
Research Interest: Microswimmers in complex environments
Email: rupayanjana@iisc.ac.in
Mr. Sourav Chatterjee
PhD student, Jan 2023 -
Research Interest: Active droplets in microfluidic environments
Email: souravc@iisc.ac.in
Mr. Saji M
PhD student, Jan 2023 -
Research Interest: Particle migration in non-Newtonian fluids
Email: sajim@iisc.ac.in
Mr. Mainak Das
PhD student, Jan 2025 -
Research Interest: Microscale swimming in non-Newtonian fluids
Email: mainakdas@iisc.ac.in
Mr. Abil Aniyan
PhD student, Jan 2025 -
Research Interest: Microscale swimming in non-Newtonian fluids
Email: abilaniyan@iisc.ac.in
Mr. Kalyan Kumar
MTech (Research) student, Aug 2023 -
Research Interest: Lattice Boltzmann modelling of nematic liquid crystals
Email: kalyank@iisc.ac.in
Mr. Raj Shekhar
MTech (Course) student, Aug 2024 -
Research Interest: Particle Microfluidics
Email: rajshekhar@iisc.ac.in
External Members
Mr. Kumar Pijush Kataky
PhD student, IIT Guwahati, Jan 2019 -
Co-Advisor: Dr. Pranab Kumar Mondal, IIT Guwahati
Research Interest: Janus swimmers in confinement
Email: kumar_pijush@iitg.ac.in
Mr. Sunit Sarkar
PhD student, IIT Guwahati, Aug 2020 -
Co-Advisor: Dr. Pranab Kumar Mondal, IIT Guwahati
Research Interest: Colloids in liquid crystals
Email: sunit.sarkar@iitg.ac.in
Mr. Sudhanshu Singh
PhD student, IIT Guwahati, Aug 2020 -
Co-Advisor: Dr. Pranab Kumar Mondal, IIT Guwahati
Research Interest: Swimming droplets
Email: sudhanshusingh@iitg.ac.in
Award: Best poster award (sponsored by Langmuir) in the first Indian Conference on Micro Nano Fluidics (ICOM) which was held at IIT Madras from Sep 29 to Oct 1, 2023.
Mr. Margam Ramprasad
PhD student, IIT Madras, Aug 2022 -
Co-Advisor: Dr. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra, IIT Madras
Research Interest: Swimming in heterogeneous and crowded environments
Email: ramprasadmargam333@gmail.com
Lab Alumni
Postdocs
Dr. Priyam Chakraborty
Axis Bank Postdoctoral Fellow, Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Research Interest: Smart microswimmers
Email: priyam.iitkgp.aerospace@gmail.com
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
CV Raman Postdoctoral Fellow, Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
Project: Active droplets in external field
Email: sidmkj@gmail.com
MTech Students
Mr. Ayan Panja
MTech (Course) in Mechanical Engineering, IISc, 2025
MTech Thesis: Computational modelling of active droplets in pressure driven flows
Email: ayanpanja@iisc.ac.in
Award: SV Sastry Memorial Medal in 2025 for academic excellence in the MTech (Course) program in Mechanical Engineering.
Mr. Soumik Sarkar
MTech (Course) in Mechanical Engineering, IISc, 2025
MTech Thesis: Computational modelling of active particles in shear flows
Email: soumiksarkar@iisc.ac.in
Mr. Swapnil Jani
MTech in Fluids and Thermal Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 2022
MTech Thesis: Transport and locomotion of microswimmer in non-Newtonian fluid
Email: sjani@iitg.ac.in
Mr. Vaibhav Agarwal
MTech in Fluids and Thermal Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 2022
MTech Thesis: Microscale swimming in viscosity gradients
Email: vavaibhavagarwal1995@gmail.com
Mr. Anubhav Jha
MTech in Fluids and Thermal Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 2021
MTech Thesis: Dynamics of a microswimmer in non-Newtonian fluid
Email: anubhaujha@gmail.com
Mr. Anubhav Chatterjee
MTech in Fluids and Thermal Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 2021
Co-advisor: Dr. Amaresh Dalal, IIT Guwahati
MTech Thesis: Numerical simulation of motion characteristics of microswimmer in structured microchannels
Email: anubhav.chatterjee95@gmail.com
Mr. K Samrat Yadav
MTech in Fluids and Thermal Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 2021
Co-advisor: Dr. Pranab Kumar Mondal, IIT Guwahati
MTech Thesis: Dynamics of a Newtonian droplet in non-Newtonian oscillating microflow
Email: k.samrat@alumni.iitg.ac.in
BTech Students
Mr. Rohan Singh Dhaka
BTech in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 2022
BTech Thesis: Hydrodynamics of stick-slip Janus particle in Poiseuille flow
Email: dhaka18@alumni.iitg.ac.in
Mr. Rahul Jakhad
BTech in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 2022
BTech Thesis: Hydrodynamics of stick-slip Janus particle in Poiseuille flow
Email: jakhad@iitg.ac.in
Project Associate
Mr. Akshaya Kumara G
Project Associate, Dec 2022 - July 2023
Project: Colloids in liquid crystals
Email: akshayag@iisc.ac.in
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