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Vivek Narsimhan is the Michael Ott Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University's School of Chemical Engineering, part of the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering. His research focuses on soft matter systems including fluid mechanics, polymer physics, interfacial rheology, and microfluidics. He holds a B.S. from Caltech (2008), M.A.st. from Cambridge (2009), and M.S./Ph.D. from Stanford (2015).
Education:
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2008
- M.A.st., Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 2009
- M.S. and Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 2015
Research interests span suspensions, complex interfaces, vesicle dynamics, and polymer physics. His lab integrates theory, simulations, and experiments to study phenomena such as droplet breakup, knotted polymer dynamics, and lyophilization processes. Key applications include pharmaceutical manufacturing, biofluid dynamics, and industrial fluid mechanics.
Awards include the ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grant (2020) and recognition in Physics of Fluids as an Editor’s Pick (2020). His work on vesicle stability and interfacial rheology has been featured in AIChE Journal's Futures 2020 issue.
Advising and grants include mentoring over a dozen graduate students and postdocs, with active projects on microfluidic separations and heat transfer modeling. His lab collaborates on lyophilization studies with industry partners and has developed novel methodologies for starch suspension dynamics.
Labs/Teams: The Narsimhan Soft Matter Research Group at Purdue explores interdisciplinary challenges in soft matter, with ongoing collaborations in biophysics, materials science, and computational rheology. The group maintains a lab website with detailed research descriptions and publications.
