ICTS student Mrinal Jyoti Powdel has won the best poster prize at Complu 2025, the Annual International Meeting on Complex Fluids and Soft Matter in India. The conference was held at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, and brought together more than 500 participants.
The award recognises Mrinal’s work on stably stratified flows, carried out under the guidance of his advisor Samriddhi Sankar Ray [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05656].
Congratulating Mrinal, Centre Director Rajesh Gopakumar said, “This is the second year in a row in which ICTS members have won the best poster prize. ICTS postdoc, now IIT-Bombay faculty, Prateek Anand had won the prize last year.”
He added, “Congratulations also to Samriddhi who has been fantastically mentoring all these young researchers.”