Murugappan Muthukumar
physics
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
After his undergraduate education in University of Madras, India, Murugappan Muthukumar did his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Professor Karl Freed. After his postdoctoral fellowship with Sir Sam Edwards in the Cavendish Laboratory at the Cambridge University, he joined the faculty of Illinois, and then moved to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he is the Wilmer D. Barrett Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering. His current topics of interest include polymer crystallization, polyelectrolyte physics, assembly of viruses, polymer translocation, and physics of vision
Research Interest
His current topics of interest include polymer crystallization, polyelectrolyte physics, assembly of viruses, polymer translocation, and physics of vision
Publications
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M. Muthukumar, Electrostatic correlations in polyelectrolyte solutions, Polymer Science, Series A, 58, 852-863 (2016).
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B. Jeon and M. Muthukumar, Electrostatic control of polymer translocation speed through alpha-hemolysin protein pore, Macromolecules, 49, 9132-9138 (2016).
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M. Muthukumar, Ordinary-extraordinary transition in dynamics of solutions of charged macromolecules, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 113, 12627-12632 (2016).
