Research: Amorphous solids; supercooled liquids; active matter systems; rheology
Current Group Members (From the Department of Physics)
Elsa BabyPhD Studentjoined 2023
Anjaly CPhD Studentjoined 2024
Abhisekh DasPhD Studentjoined 2026
Aparna SreekumariPostdocjoined 2022
Karthika SPostdocjoined 2025
Publications (With IIT Palakkad affiliation)
Curvature-dependent dynamics of a bacterium confined in a giant unilamellar vesicle Olivia Vincent, Aparna Sreekumari, Manoj Gopalakrishnan, Vishwas V. Vasisht, and Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi Physical Review E (2025) · DOI
Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in Stillinger-Weber silicon Himani Rautela, Shiladitya Sengupta, and Vishwas V. Vasisht The Journal of Chemical Physics (2025) · DOI
Memory of shear flow in soft jammed materials H. A. Vinutha, Manon Marchand, Marco Caggioni, Vishwas V. Vasisht, Emanuela Del Gado, and Veronique Trappe PNAS Nexus (2024) · DOI
Permanent shear localization in dense disordered materials due to microscopic inertia Vishwas V. Vasisht, Magali Le Goff, Kirsten Martens, and Jean-Louis Barrat The European Physical Journal E (2023) · DOI
Residual stress in athermal soft disordered solids: insights from microscopic and mesoscale models Vishwas V. Vasisht, P. Chaudhuri, and K. Martens Soft Matter (2022) · DOI