Aparna Baskaran is an Indian and American theoretical physicist whose research studies the statistical mechanics of soft matter, including the self-propelled motion of bacteria through fluids and the clustering of self-propelled particles. She is a professor in the Martin A. Fisher School of Physics at Brandeis University.[1]
Education and career
editBaskaran earned a master's degree in physics at the Raman School of Physics of Pondicherry University in India.[2] She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 2006.[1] Her dissertation, Statistical mechanics and linear response for a granular fluid, was supervised by James Duffy.[3]
After postdoctoral research at Syracuse University she joined the Brandeis University faculty as an assistant professor in 2010,[2] and subsequently became a full professor there.[1]
Recognition
editBaskaran was the 2019 recipient of the Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research of the American Physical Society (APS).[4] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2024, after a nomination from the APS Division of Soft Matter, "for seminal contributions exploiting nonequilibrium statistical physics to elucidate the physics of active and granular matter".[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Aparna Baskaran", Martin A. Fisher School of Physics people, Brandeis University, retrieved 2024-11-28
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), Brandeis University, retrieved 2024-11-28
- ^ Aparna Baskaran at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research, American Physical Society, retrieved 2024-11-28
- ^ APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2024-11-28
External links
edit- Baskaran Group
- Aparna Baskaran publications indexed by Google Scholar