Date of Birth: 23 April 1976
Employment
- Faculty at Digital Futures, Stockholm, 2025.
- Researcher with permanent contract, NORDITA (January 2015 - present)
- Assistant Professor, NORDITA (January 2010 - January 2015)
- Leverhume trust post-doctoral fellow, Astronomy Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London (February 2007 - January 2010). Mentor: Reza Tavakol
- Henri Poincare Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab. Casiopee, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur. Nice, France (February 2006 - January 2007). Mentor: Uriel Frisch
- Visiting Associate Professor, Lab. Casiopee, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur. Nice, France (January 2005 - January 2006).
- Project Assistant, CCMT, Department of Physics, IISc. (October 2004 - December 2004)
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Phd): Thesis submitted: September 2004, Degree received: March 2005 Center for Condensed Matter Theory (CCMT), Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Supervisor: Rahul Pandit Thesis: Studies of Static and Dynamic Multiscaling in Turbulence .
- Master's in (theoretical) physics: July 2000 Department of Physics, IISc, Bangalore Thesis: Temporal Multiscaling in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence: Numerical Studies of the Navier-Stokes and Gledzer-Ohkitani-Yamada Equations. Supervisors: Rahul Pandit
Research Interests
My research in within the broad field of Applied Mathematics/Theoretical Physics. My recent work can be broadly classified into the following subdisciplines.
- Physics of Life
- Soft Matter
- Turbulence
- Astrophysics
Publications
About 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals. For a complete list see my google scholar page.
Awards and Grants
- Grant to facilitate collaboration between Sweden and USA in health and life sciences, Vinnova 2024-25, “Mechanobiology of extracellular nanovesicles in association with cancer”, jointly with Apurba Dev (PI, Uppsala University), and Shanon Stott (Mass. General Hospital)
- Visitor, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, 2021.
- Research grant from Wenner-Gren
foundation:
Reconnection, radio observation and switch-back . This grant could not be realised due to Covid-19 lockdown. - Research Grant from the Swedish research council titled Capsules in Flows (2017 – 2020). Total amount : 4.4 million SEK. Extended to 2022 for interruption due to covid-19 pandemic.
- Young Investigator Grant of the Swedish research council titled Turbulence in dilute polymer solutions (2012 – 2014). Total amount : 1.6 million SEK.
- Visiting Professor, Dept. of Physics, IIT-Bombay, 2018.
- Visiting Professor, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Nice, 2012-13.
- Martin Forster medal for best PhD thesis in the division of physical and mathematical sciences in Indian Institute of Science (2005).
- Senior and Junior Research Fellowship of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India.