Research Area
"Research is formalized curiosity.
It is poking and prying with a purpose."
-Zora Neale Hurtson
"Research is formalized curiosity.
It is poking and prying with a purpose."
-Zora Neale Hurtson
My research aims to understand the dynamics of complex systems far from equilibrium, with particular emphasis on active and soft materials. I investigate how microscale motile agents, such as biological swimmers (self-driven particles), interact with their fluidic environment, giving rise to phenomena like coherent motion, taxis-driven migration, and spatial self-organisation. These systems are influenced by a wide range of factors, including flow regimes, spatial constraints, and structural heterogeneity. A central aspect of my work involves using ideas from nonequilibrium statistical physics to study how complex behaviours emerge from simple interactions and lead to pattern formations.
I am also interested in how intrinsic curvature and topological constraints, particularly those found on curved interfaces such as spheres, introduce new constraints that fundamentally alter collective behaviour, flow organisation, and defect structures, leading to patterns not observed in planar systems.
In future, I am interested in exploring tissue dynamics, morphogenetic processes, and geometry-driven organisation within living systems.
M.Sc Supervisor:
Dr. P. Lakshmi Praveen
Assistant Professor
Department Of Physics,
Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla,
Sambalpur, Odisha, India
Email Id: praveenplp@gmail.com
plppraveen_phy@vssut.ac.in
PhD Supervisor:
Assistant Professor
Department Of Physics,
IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Email Id: vishwanath.shukla@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Collaborators:
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics,
IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Email Id: kannabiran.s@phy.iitkgp.ac.in