Area of research
Condensed Matter Physics · Biomedical Engineering
Research interest
Research interests include Micro and Nano Robotics, Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies, Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, and Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization.
The 2025 motile active matter roadmap
Euchromatin Activity Enhances Segregation and Compaction of Heterochromatin in the Cell Nucleus
Flexible filaments buckle into helicoidal shapes in strong compressional flows
Spontaneous oscillations, beating patterns, and hydrodynamics of active microfilaments
Extensile motor activity drives coherent motions in a model of interphase chromatin
Morphological transitions of elastic filaments in shear flow
Rheology of Active Fluids
Emergent vortices in populations of colloidal rollers
On the distribution and swim pressure of run-and-tumble particles in confinement
Bubble-Propelled Micromotors for Enhanced Transport of Passive Tracers
Theory of Active Suspensions
Active suspensions and their nonlinear models
Instabilities and nonlinear dynamics of concentrated active suspensions
Collaborative Research: DMS/NIGMS2: Discovering the Principles of Active Self-Organization in the Differentiating Genome Using Multi-Scale Modeling and In-Vivo Experiments
NSF-BSF: From microscopic propulsion to macroscale dynamics: Active particle transport in complex environments
Collaborative Research: Interphase Chromatin as a Complex Active Fluid: Experiments and Microscopic to Mesoscopic Modeling
Collaborative Research: Electrorotational fluid instabilities
Collaborative Research: FRG: Understanding and Controlling Active Fluids through Modeling, Simulation, and Experiment
CAREER: Electrokinetic Transport of Fluid, Particles and Macromolecules through Nanochannels and Nanopores
Travel support for students and young researchers to attend "Flowing Soft Matter: Bridging the Gap Between Statistical Physics and Fluid Mechanics," Udine, Italy, 6/30/14 - 7/4/14
CAREER: Electrokinetic Transport of Fluid, Particles and Macromolecules through Nanochannels and Nanopores
Collaborative Research: The Analysis and Simulation of Biologically Active Suspensions