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Postdoctoral Researcher

Achal

Akhil Varma

Ph.D. 2019

Email: akvarma [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Previous institution: LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France


Graduate Students

Achal

Achal Mahajan

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: acmahaja [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Project: Active polymer hydrodynamics and physical modeling of chromatin
Previous institution: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India


Mohammadhossein

Mohammadhossein Firouznia

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: mfirouzn [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Project: Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in liquid-liquid systems
Previous institution: Ohio University, Athens, OH


Arijit

Arijit Mahapatra

Ph.D. Candidate (co-advised with Prof. Rangamani)

Email: armahapa [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Transport phenomena in deformable fluid membranes
Previous institution: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India


Yuzhu

Yuzhu Chen

Ph.D. Candidate (co-advised with Prof. Rangamani)

Email: yuc034 [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Modeling and simulations of cell spreading and locomotion
Previous institution: Fudan University, Shanghai, China


Tanumoy

Tanumoy Dhar

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: tdhar [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Transport of active suspensions in complex media
Previous institution: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India


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November 2021: The paper "Instability of a planar fluid interface under a tangential electric field in a stagnation point flow" by Firouznia, Miksis, Vlahovska and Saintillan appeared in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Click here to download the article.

November 2021: The Saintillan Research Group attended the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in Phoenix, AZ.

November 2021: Congratulations to Achal Mahajan for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled: "From nano to micro: activity-driven self-organization of interphase chromatin"!

October 2021: The paper "Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in freely suspended viscous films under normal electric fields" by Firouznia and Saintillan appeared in Physical Review Fluids. Click here to download the article.

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