معرفی
Mrityunjay Kothari serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), with an additional affiliation in the Integrated Applied Mathematics program. Based at Kingsbury Hall in Durham, NH, he teaches core courses including ME 526: Mechanics of Materials, ME 727/827: Advanced Mechanics of Solids, and ME 999: Doctoral Research, while maintaining an active research profile.
His research spans solid mechanics, materials science, and biomechanics with emphasis on nonlinear phenomena. Key interests include hyperelasticity in soft materials, graphene mechanics at nanoscale, flexoelectric effects in 2D materials, and mechanical regulation of biological systems such as bacterial biofilms and cellular phase separation. This interdisciplinary work bridges engineering fundamentals with applications in advanced materials and biophysics.
Analysis of his publications reveals consistent focus on mechanical instabilities and pattern formation across diverse systems—from pressurized cavities in hyperelastic media to crinkle-ruga structures in graphene and morphogenesis in confined biofilms. The work demonstrates strong integration of theoretical modeling with experimental validation, showing increasing collaboration across physics, materials science, and biology disciplines since 2018.
