BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Soudamini Sahoo joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy in April 2023. She completed her master's degree in Physics with electronics specialisation from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack. Then she moved to IISER Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, for a PhD. During PhD (August 2015- July 2021), under the supervision of Prof. Snigdha Thakur and Prof. Sunil P Singh, they studied how simple and complex hydrodynamic environments, such as Newtonian fluid, viscoelastic fluid, and binary mixtures, affected the propulsion dynamics and collective motions of active particles. With the assistance of Prof. Subir K. Das (JNCASR Banglore), she has examined the phase transition kinetics of active colloids in the presence of explicit hydrodynamics. In her Post-doc (May 2021-March 2023 in IIT Palakkad), with Prof. P B Sunil Kumar (IIT Palakkad and IIT Madras) and Prof. Ranjith Padinhateeri (IIT Bombay), they are observing the effect of the dynamic nature of chromatin segments (switching from one epigenetic state to another) on the steady-state chromatin morphology. Her research area is active matter, bio-physics, which are subfields of soft condensed matter. She is continuing research in understanding the collective behaviour of active particles, genome organisation and liquid-liquid phase separation observed in biology.
EXPERTISE INFORMATION
Research Group
- Soft Matter and Polymer Physics
Areas of Interest
- Soft Matter
- Active Matter
- Genome Organization
- Polymers
- Simulation of synthetic motors, hydrodynamics coupling .....
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PUBLICATIONSPERSONAL INFORMATION
Soudamini Sahoo
Assistant Professor Grade-II
Physics and Astronomy
Room Number: MC-113
Department of Physics and Astronomy, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008
2021
Ph.D.
Soft Condesed Matter PhysicsIndian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India
2015
M.Sc
PhysicsRavenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha
2013
B.Sc (Hons)
PhysicsBhadrak Autonomous College, Bhadrak, Odisha
Teaching Experience
- Physics, Bhadrak Autonomous College, Bhadrak, Odisha, 09 Mar 2023 - 17 Apr 2023
Post Doctoral Research Experience
- Biophysics, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India, 13 May 2021 - 07 Mar 2023
Total Publications: 6
S. Jaiswal, S. Sahoo, and S. Thakur,"Particle-based mesoscopic model for phase separation in a binary fluid mixture", Physical Review E, vol.107, pp.055303, American Physical Society 2023, 10.1103/physreve.107.055303 Article
M. Jhajhria, S. Sahoo, T. Biswas, and S. Thakur,"Activity induced non-monotonic aggregation in a mixture of chemically active and passive particles", Soft Materials, Taylor & Francis 2023, 10.1080/1539445x.2023.2206087 Article
P. Chuphal, S. Sahoo, and S. Thakur,"Effect of poiseuille flow on the dynamics of active vesicle", Soft Materials, vol.19, no.3, pp.359--372, Taylor & Francis 2021, 10.1080/1539445X.2021.1937222 Article
S. Sahoo, S. P. Singh, and S. Thakur,"Role of viscoelasticity on the dynamics and aggregation of chemically active sphere-dimers", Physics of Fluids, vol.33, no.1, pp.017120, AIP Publishing 2021, 10.1063/5.0038743 Article
S. Sahoo, S. P. Singh, and S. Thakur,"Enhanced self-propulsion of a sphere-dimer in viscoelastic fluid", Soft Matter, vol.15, no.10, pp.2170--2177, Royal Society of Chemistry 2019, 10.1039/C8SM02311E Article
- PH1004 : Electromagnetic and Quantum Physics {Theory}
- PH2008 : Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems {Theory}
- PH3003 : Heat and Thermodynamics {Theory}
- PH4074 : Computational Physics Laboratory {Practical}
Awards And Honours
- First rank in OPSC for the advertisement "Recruitment to the post of Assistant Professor Stage - I, 2021-2022", 2022
- Best oral presenation award in the National Conference “Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science (ACES 2020)” held at IISER Bhopal, 2020
- Best poster award in the International Conference “Complex Fluids Conference (CompFlu 2019)” held at IISER Bhopal, 2019
- Graduate Aptitude Test Engineering (GATE), All India Rank 324, 2015
- Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) : All India Rank 252 (or 94.64%), 2015
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - National Eligibility Test (CSIR - NET): Rank 83, 2015
- UGC Merit Scholarship, 2013
Memberships / Fellowships
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Junior Research Fellow (CSIR - JRF): Rank 167, 2016