RheoDLS@RRI
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Present Group members
Professor
PhD, Physics (Indian Institute of Science, 2001)
Email: ranjini[at]rri.res.in
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PhD Student (at RRI since August 2013)
PhD thesis work: The structure and dynamics of soft colloidal glasses
MSc (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad)
Email: sanjay[at]rri.res.in
Sanjay has performed some elaborate chemistry and synthesized NiPAM thermoreversible gels
and Janus (patchy) particles in our laboratory. He has worked on the glass transition in the
PNIPAM suspensions that he synthesized (email us the preprint). To read Sanjay's recent RRI
newsletter article, please click here.
PhD Physics (Indian Institute of Science)
Postdoctoral fellow (at RRI since November 2015)
Project title: Aging in glassy suspensions and supercooled liquids, dielectric spectroscopy; etc.
Email: paramesh[at]rri.res.in
Paramesh has been working on setting up dielectric spectroscopy in the lab. For his very
recent manuscripts on glassy PNIPAM suspensions and the computation of dynamical
hetergoneities in glassy clay suspensions, please email us.
PhD student (at RRI since August 2016)
MSc (Physics): Dr. RML Avadh University, Faizabad
Project title: Studies of the glass transition using suspensions of thermoreversible core-shell
colloidal particles
Email: chandeshwar[at]rri.res.in
Chandeshwar is synthesizing core-shell particles and is using dense aqueous suspensions of these
to understand the approach of soft glassy materials towards kinetic arrest.
PhD student (at RRI since August 2016)
MSc (Physics): IIT Guwahati
Project title: Aging and rheology of soft glassy materials
Email: rajkumar[at]rri.res.in
Rajkumar is studying the motion of a ball inside a thixotropic liquid and the rheological properties
of kaolinite clay.
PhD student (at RRI since August 2016)
MSc (Physics):
Project title: The rheology of dense suspensions
Email: palak[at]rri.res.in
Palak is working on the dynamics of dense non-Newtonian suspensions and on the interfacial
instabilities in fluids restricted to confined geometries.
Research Assistant (at RRI since January 2018)
MSc (Physics): Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Project title: Driven suspensions of active and passive particles near their jamming transitions.
Email: riddhika[at]rri.res.in
Riddhika is synthesizing and characterizing active particles and studying the effects of activity on the jamming transition. She is also performing rheo-dielectric studies on suspensions of some passive colloidal particles.
Past PhD students
PhD (September, 2016)
Thesis title: Experimental investigations of dispersibility, stability and rheological behaviours
of aqueous suspensions of colloidal clays
Email: samim[at]rri.res.in
Present position: Postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute for Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Rajib Basak
PhD (December 2014)
Thesis title: Dynamic light scattering and rheological studies of
some micellar copolymer solutions, biopolymer gels and concentrated
colloidal suspensions
Present position: postdoc at the National University of Singapore
Email: phyraji[at]nus.edu.sg
Debasish Saha
PhD (October 2015)
Thesis title: Experimental studies of the dynamics and flow
behaviours of colloidal nanoclay gels and glasses
Present position: Postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Heinrich Heine, Dusseldorf, Germany
Email: debasish.saha[at]uni-dusseldorf.de