ABOUT ME
I am a GNeuS (Marie Skłodowska-Curie) Research Fellow at Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Germany working on the Rheo-SANS of Soft Matter.
In the past, I had an Industrial R&D experience focused on skin-care cosmetics at Almora Botanica, followed by a postdoctoral research experience at the IMP laboratory, INSA Lyon, France, under collaboration with Industries specialising in Bitumen applications. I pursued my Integrated Masters & Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Therein, I worked with Prof. Abhijit P. Deshpande in the Polymer Engineering and Colloid Sciences laboratory. I graduated with a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from SASTRA University, India.
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I am a motivated individual who seeks immense inspiration for my research from the holistic combination of Nature and Science. I strongly believe that for every technological innovation leading to frugal solutions, there is an utmost necessity of thorough fundamental studies.
Anything that includes soft/building/bio material science, physical chemistry, Transport phenomena, and Mathematics always excites me! I am constantly on the look out for new projects/positions within my research interests.

Pictorial abstract of my Ph.D. work
The motto that drives me:
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“All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents”
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EDUCATION
2014 - 2020
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Master of Science & Ph. D., Chemical Engineering
Funding: HTRA - MHRD, India
G. P. A: 9.12 (scale of 10)
[Institute Research Award: Best Ph.D. Thesis]
2010 - 2014
Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering
G. P. A: 8.72 (scale of 10)
[Best outgoing student of the Department]
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Rheology of Complex systems
Dynamical signatures, Structure-property relationships, Bulk and Interfacial phenomena
Structured Materials & underlying Physics
Polymers (solutions and crosslinked systems); Colloids (suspensions, gels, soft glasses, Emulsions, Wax/Oil mixtures); Supramolecular systems; Building materials; Biomacromolecules
Constitutive modeling
Linear and nonlinear Viscoelasticity, Plasticity and Thixotropy
Advanced Material Characterization
Microscopy, Scattering (during rest/rheology)
Time series analysis & Optimization
Fourier transform, Chebyshev decomposition, Kramers-Kronig analysis, Particle Swarm algorithm