Soft Matter and Statistical Physics (Theory)
Vishwas Venkatesh
Assistant Professor
1516
Joined: 2019
Research: Amorphous solids; supercooled liquids; active matter systems; rheology
Manoj Gopalakrishnan
Professor
D03 FF · 1509
Joined: 2024
Research: Nonequilibrium statistical physics; stochastic processes; theoretical biophysics and soft matter
Postdoctoral Researchers
| Name | Host Faculty | Year Joined |
|---|---|---|
| Aparna Sreekumari | Vishwas Venkatesh | 2022 |
| Karthika S | Vishwas Venkatesh | 2025 |
Ph.D. Students
| Name | Roll No. | Year Joined | Supervisor | Cosupervisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shivadas P. | 222004006 | 2020 | Sovan Lal Das (ME, IIT Palakkad) | — |
| Elsa Baby | 222314004 | 2023 | Vishwas Venkatesh | — |
| Anjaly C | 222404003 | 2024 | Vishwas Venkatesh | — |
| Abhisekh Das | 222614001 | 2026 | Vishwas Venkatesh | — |
Publications
2025
- 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).
- Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in Stillinger-Weber silicon, Himani Rautela, Shiladitya Sengupta, and Vishwas V. Vasisht, The Journal of Chemical Physics (2025).
2024
- 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).
- Collisions among elongated settling particles: The twofold role of turbulence, Andela Grujic, Akshyay Bhatnagar, Gaetano Sardina, and Luca Brandt, Physics of Fluids (2024).
2023
- 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).
2022
- Residual stress in athermal soft disordered solids: insights from microscopic and mesoscale models, Vishwas V. Vasisht, P. Chaudhuri, and K. Martens, Soft Matter (2022).