Siddhartha Mukherjee
Enschede, Netherlands| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowships |
| Project Title: | Harnessing the interplay between elasticity and hydrodynamics at micro-scale: Fundamentals and Applications |
| Field of Study: | Mathematical Sciences |
| Home Institution: | University of Twente, At-Large, At-Large |
| Host Institution: | TBC |
| Grant Start Month: | January,2025 |
| Duration of Grant: | Eighteen months |
Brief Bio:
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands. Previously, he was a C. V. Raman postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. In 2022, Dr. Mukherjee completed his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur. His doctoral research explored the role of viscoelastic rheology in electrokinetic transport. Prior to that, he obtained his postgraduate and undergraduate degrees in chemical engineering from IIT Kanpur and Jadavpur University, respectively.
Dr. Mukherjee’s research interest lies in developing innovative designs at a microscale level to leverage different interplays; for example, fluid-structure interactions in bio-mimetic microvascular systems, or the confluence of thermal and electrokinetic transport. He has published 12 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a reviewer of the journals Applied Physics Letters, Physics of Fluids, and Journal of Applied Physics. In addition to his postdoctoral fellowships, Dr. Mukherjee received the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) fellowship during his doctoral and postgraduate studies, and scholarship from the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) during his undergraduate studies.
Intrinsic deformability is a hallmark of modern-day microfluidic substrates. Despite having a wide gamut of applications, the non-trivial role of substrate flexibility in both engineering and natural settings is far from being well understood. As a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research fellow, Dr. Mukherjee, through a combination of mathematical modeling, numerical simulations, and experiments, is investigating the intricate coupling between fluid mechanics and elasticity at the microscale.