Our multidisciplinary research team is excited to work in the field of energy transport management. We are very keen on: - Nanofluids and their energy transport for single-phase cooling applications- Nanoparticles and structured surfaces for enhancing the boiling heat transfer

Projects in the field of mesoscale polymer structures, composites, and living polymers in confinement:- Living polymer solution in confinement: SCF modeling of polymer intermediated interaction of surfaces;- Equilibrium ionic macro-surfactant micelles: effect of the single charge on the micellar structure;- Mechanical properties and thermal conductivity of nanocomposites: effect of network and the interface;- Crystallinity and mechanical properties of thermoplastic polylactide (PLA) affected by nanoparticles; - Organo-clay thermoset nanocomposites and clay-reinforced pressure-sensitive adhesives;- Photodegradable hydrogels for delivery of hydrophobic drugs;- Lateral Atomic Force Microscopy;

Projects:- Nanogels and microgels: synthesis, structure, and applications;- Gel electrophoresis of amino acids in microfluidics;- Meso-structures of coiled-coil hybrid copolymer assemblies.Skills Experimental: Microfluidics; reverse emulsion polymerization; time-resolving SANS of gel synthesis; Theoretical: statistical physics and thermodynamics of polymers and networks; Numerical: data analysis, model fitting, simulations of network formation, cluster analysis, and scaling.Softs: Fortran, Maple, Matlab, Mathematica; Origin, LaTex, MS Office.

Responsibilities: • Polymer vectors for DNA delivery;• Supervision of an MSc. student;Project:- DNA encapsulation by polymersomes.

Responsibilities: • Research management; design of experiments; writing manuscript and reports;• Statistical analysis and modeling of many-body problems in hydrodynamics. Project:- Coalescence kinetics in semi-concentrated emulsions in a flow.Theoretical: statistical physics and random processes, hydrodynamics, similarity, and self-preservation, scaling; Numerical: correlation analysis, MC simulations, population balance equation; statistical modeling;Softs: Fortran, Mathematica; Origin, LaTex, MS Office. Experimental: Rheoscope, optical microscopy; video-data acquisition;