Students

Krishna Kanhaiya Tiwari pursuing Ph.D.

Krishna is interested in soft condensed matter physics and is involved in investigating microscopic interactions of disordered systems for guided-self assembly into target structure.

Khandare Pushkar Gopalrao pursuing Ph.D.

Varghese Babu pursuing Ph.D.

Varghese uses computational models to study the behaviour of granular materials under shear deformation. These materials under shear display interesting phenomena like jamming, where the system undergoes transition from a flowing state to a rigid state and dilatancy, where the volume of the material increases. In his research, he tries to connect the behaviour of granular materials to their underlying structure

Yagyik Goswami pursuing Ph.D.

Yagyik's research work focusses on computational studies of the thermodynamics of network-forming liquids cooled below their freezing temperature where they become metastable with respect to the crystalline state. With a specific focus on classical models of liquid silicon, he investigates structural changes in the liquid to identify the appropriate order parameters to describe liquid-liquid and liquid-solid transformations and works with a number of simulation techniques to construct the free energy landscape.

Pallabi Das pursuing Ph.D.

Pallabi's research interest involves the study of amorphous systems under cyclic deformation. Recently she has begun investigating deeply supercooled liquid in the context of the glass transition.

Monoj Adhikari pursuing Ph.D.

Monoj's research area includes understanding glass transition, jamming transition, yielding and memory behaviour of amorphous solids. He attempts to understand the relation between glass and jamming transitions by studying model glass-forming liquids in higher spatial dimensions. He also studies the memory behaviour of amorphous solids under the application of symmetric and asymmetric shear deformation protocols.