ICTS’s young faculty member Brato Chakrabarti has received one of the Scientific High Level Visiting Fellowships from the French Institute in India with his collaborator at ESPCI-Paris, Anke Lindner.
Prof Chakrabarti researches various fundamental fluid-structure interaction problems at the interface of hydrodynamics at micron scales, transport phenomena, soft and active matter, and biological physics. He started collaborating with Prof Anke Lindner and Prof. Olivia du Roure at ESPCI during his PhD. “Our collaboration over the last eight years has been extremely fruitful and I have learned a lot working with them,” Brato said. “Anke and Olivia are one of the leading experts on experimental microfluidics and complex fluids.”
Building on their previous work, the trio is keen to look at collective fluid-structure interaction phenomena in the context of microfluidic transport and mixing, and dynamics of bundles of biopolymers.
“For a theorist, it is very important to have contact with experiments,” said Brato. “We plan to combine theory, experiments, and large-scale computations to investigate this.”
ICTS congratulates Prof Chakrabarti as he continues his vibrant research with international partners.