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Soft and Active Matter Group

Group Leader

Dr. Sunita

Phone: +91 291 2801618

Email: sunita@iitj.ac.in

Address:

Room No. 329,

Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur

Biography

Dr. Sunita joined the Dept. of Physics, IIT Jodhpur in September 2022 as an Assistant Professor. Prior to that, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and the University of Lisbon, Portugal with Prof. Nuno Araujo and Prof. Margarida Telo Gamma. In JNCASR, Bangalore, she worked as a research associate with Prof. Subir K Das.
She received her doctoral degree in Physics from Banaras Hindu University. During her PhD, she has constructed the first thermodynamics model to analyze the nonlinear dielectric effect and the effect of pressure on the structure and properties of the achiral, bent-core, and ferroelectric liquid crystals.

Work Experience

Current Designation

Previous Employments

PhD Background

Assistant Professor
Institute : Dept. Of Physics, IIT Jodhpur

Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow

Institute: School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Advisor: Prof. Rudolf Podgornik

Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow

Institute: Dept. of Physics, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Advisors: Prof. Nuno Araujo and Prof. Margarida Telo da Gama

Designation: Research Associate

Institute: Theoretical Science Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore, India

Advisor: Prof. Subir K Das

Thesis Title : Phase transition properties of Liquid crystals: Application and    development of Landau de Gennes type formulation
Institute:    Dept. of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Advisor:      Prof. Shri Singh

M.Sc (Physics) DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, UP, India

B.Sc (Physics, Electronics, Maths) DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, UP, India

Funds/Travel Grants/Awards/ Fellowships

Research Initiation Grant: Ongoing (Aug. 2024- )SERB Funding: Ongoing (2024-2027).

DAC funding: Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Science, Cambridge, UK to deliver a talk and present a research paper in Biological condensates: cellular mechanisms governed by phase transitions [SPLW03] workshop, 2023.

Early Career Research funding, University of Cambridge, UK to present a research paper in 7th Edward Symposium, 2023 (did not avail).

Highlighted as Women in Physics (Highlighted on the webpage ofCFTC, University of Lisbon, Portugal on Women’s Day, March 2023)

Travel support by MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany to present research work in for Fluid Physics of Life workshop, 2019

Travel support by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany to present research work in Multiscale Simulation Methods for Soft Matter Systems (Women in Applied Maths & Soft Matter Physics, 2015)

Research fellowship - Council of Scientific Industrial Research, New Delhi

Research Fellowship in Science for meritorious students - University Grant Commission, New Delhi

PhD Research Fellowship- Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

The Dewan Jawahar Lal Nayar Memorial Prize, in 20th National Conference on Liquid Crystals (NCLC 2013). MIT, Manipal, Karnataka, India (2013)

MSc- 3rd Rank holder, DDU Gorakhpur University

Highschool-School Topper, Praising certificate given by the General Manager of F.C.I.L. Gorakhpur, U.P, India.

Several prizes and certificates at the school level.

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