Rahul Mangal
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur
Principal Investigator
Dr Rahul Mangal is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. His research interests include Soft Matter, Polymer Physics, Active Matter and Liquid Crystals.
Interests
- Active Matter
- Polymer Nano-Composites
- Soft Matter
- Rheology of Composites & Complex Fluids
Education
- Post Doc – University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA
- PhD – Cornell University, NY, USA
- M.Tech. – Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
- B.Tech. – Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Recognitions
- Member, National Academcy of Sciences India (NASI) (2024)
- Fulbright Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Fellowship (2024)
- Elected as Associate Fellow of Indian Science Academy (INSA) (2023)
- Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Kanpur (2023)
- Featured as Emerging Young Researcher, Soft Matter (2023)
- Batch of 1979 Young Faculty Fellowship, IIT Kanpur (2021)
- INAE Young Engineer Award (2020)
- Early Career Research Award, SERB (2019)
- Ramanujan Fellowship, SERB (2017)
PhD Students
Harishwar Raman
Harishwar hails from Aruvankadu (near Ooty), Tamil Nadu. He did his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. He is currently investigating the behaviour of Active Janus Colloids in Viscoelastic media and their cluster formation.
Sobiya Ashraf
Sobiya hails from Anantnag disctrict of Jammu and Kashmir. She obtained her B.Tech. from NIT Srinagar in 2021. Presently, she is working on investigating the dynamics of self-propelled droplets under confinement.
Rishabh Garg
Rishabh hails from New Delhi. He did his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is currently working on the Physical characteristics of Liquid Crystal Polymers.
Ekta Bharadwaj
Ekta Bhardwaj hails from Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. She completed her B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Hamirpur. Currently, she is working on self-propelling droplets
Masters Students
Manish Gupta
Manish hails from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He completed his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from MMMUT, Gorakhpur. Currently, he is investigating the behaviour of Active Janus Colloids in AC electric fields
Alumni
Karnika Singh
Prateek Dwivedi
Biswa Ranjan Si
Atishay Shrivastava
Keerthivasan Muthukumar