Srikanth Sastry

Biography

Srikanth Sastry worked as: Professor Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, October 2008 - Present. Professor Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, April 2012 - April 2014. Associate Professor Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, October 2003 - October 2008. Faculty Fellow Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, October 1998 - October 2003. Visiting Scientist Fellow National Institute of Standards and Technology/ Arizona State University, February 1998 - September 1998; Research Associate Department of Chemical Engineering , Princeton University, May 1996- December 1997. Visiting Fellow Physical Sciences Laboratory, DCRT, National Institutes of Health, November 1993 - April 1996. Research / Teaching Asistant Center for Polymer Studies and Physics Department, Boston University, September 1986 -- October 1993.

Research Interest

Srikanth Sastry research interest include Research themes and interests in Srikanth Sastry’s group in broadly the area of statistical mechanics, with a focus on understanding a range of unusual and interesting properties of liquids and other soft condensed matter, which are addressed with computation as a major tool. Some of the areas of research activity are: Slow dynamics and routes to structural arrest (glass transition, gelation, jamming etc) in supercooled liquids and other soft matter systems (colloids, gels, granular material) Mechanical properties of glasses and other amorphous solids, their yielding behaviour and memory effects. Routes to jamming in sphere packings and geometric aspects of jammed packing. Self assembly in soft matter. Anomalous properties: liquid-liquid phase transition in network forming liquids. Statistical mechanical models of biological behaviour. Other (ongoing and prospective) areas of interest include the study of self-assembly in soft matter, nucleation and phase transformations, soft glassy behaviour and memory in biological systems, water in contexts of biology, atmospheric science, environment and sustainability, analysis of biomedical data, and materials modelling for sustainable energy applications.