Young Investigator Talks (YIT) is an initiative of the Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, to open a window for students to interact with Young Researchers working abroad and within the country.

Join the talks and enjoy science! The usual timing of this Weekly Talk Series will be every Friday, 4:00 - 5:00 PM IST.

List of the talks

• Dr. Rishabh V. More, a Postdoctoral Associate, Hatsopoulos Microfluidics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA, “Micromechanics of dense suspensions: microscopic interactions to macroscopic rheology,” September 30, 2022
• Dr. Shyam Deo, Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University, “Tuning Metal-support Interaction for Catalysis at Multi-component Interfaces using Ab - initio and Statistical Methods,” September 23, 2022
• Dr. Tapomoy Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Bacterial Motility in Porous Media, August 26, 2022
• Dr. Ambika Somasundar, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Directional motion of enzyme-coated liposomes, May 13, 2022
• Dr. Tribeni Roy, Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Designing and characterizing porous electrode supercapacitors: insights from molecular dynamics, May 06, 2022
• Dr. Narendra Singh Rajput, Assistant Professor, IIT Tirupati, Surface engineering of polymer/metal oxide/metal for different applications, April 29, 2022
• Dr. Anindita Chakraborty, Principal Investigator, Tata Steel RnD, Coating systems for next-generation steels, April 22, 2022
• Dr. Sushobhan Pradhan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Oklahoma State University, The influence of supersaturation and wettability on pressure-driven bubble nucleation, April 08, 2022
• Dr. Prhashanna Ammu, Senior Research Scientist, Corning Research & Development Corporation (CRDC), New York, Molecular modelling of thermal poling of silicate glasses, April 01, 2022
• Dr. Subham Ghosh Dastidar, WWSC Fellow, Linköping University, Sweden, Optical tuning of cellulose for adaptive thermal management, March 25, 2022
• Dr. Dhurjhyoti Saha, Research Scientist, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, University of Texas, Houston, ATP-dependent chromatin remodeler mediated epigenetic changes in early development stages, March 11, 2022
• Dr. Tamal Roy, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, Conformation, and dynamics of polyelectrolytes under confinement, March 04, 2022
• Dr. Abhinav Sharma, Research Scientist, AbbVie, North Chicago, USA, Micro-physiological models of intestines for therapeutic discovery and host-microbe interaction studies, February 25, 2022
• Dr. Mohit Singh, Humboldt Fellow, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, Electrodynamic levitation technique for characterization of charged droplets, February 18, 2022
• Dr. Bidhan Chandra, Assistant Professor, IISER Bhopal, Early transition and drag reduction in flow of polymer solutions, February 11, 2022
• Dr. Vishank Kumar, Associate Scientist, Umicore R&D, Belgium, Calculating diffusivity from first-principal calculations, February 04, 2022
• Dr. Barun Kumar Barick, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Nano-texturing the surface as a biometric approach for antireflection coating, January 28, 2022
• Dr. Shamik Misra, Assistant Professor, IIT Tirupati, Efficient computational approaches for hierarchical decision support system, January 21, 2022
• Dr. Abhijit Chandra Roy, Inspired- Faculty, IISc, A step towards safe healthcare: artificial soft electronic skin, January 14, 2022
• Dr. Gargi Joshi, Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, Directional control of diffusion and swelling in polysaccharide hydrogels, January 07, 2022
• Dr. Arghya Banerjee, Assistant Professor, IIT Ropar, Molecular modelling guided catalyst design for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, December 24, 2021
• Dr. Jayabrata Dhar, HF Fellow, University of Luxembourg, Asynchronous growth to emergent synchrony: the story of confluent bacterial colonies, December 17, 2021
• Dr. Akshay Modi, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, Tailored nano-enabled polymeric membranes for biomedical engineering and water treatment applications, December 10, 2021
• Dr. Mitradip Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, IISER Bhopal, Nanotechnology driven healthcare innovations and future ahead, December 03, 2021