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Fluid flow and magnetism fascinated me from my childhood and made me passionate about interdisciplinary materials research, specifically, to understand, control, and engineer it for society. My research journey to achieve this goal includes a fundamental understanding of materials science, flow chemistry, microfluidics, droplets, and magnetics and their engineering manifestation for various macro, micro-, and nanoscale applications.
A material’s understanding and control in “live mode” will enable application-specific materials engineering from nano to bulk scale; this idea has kept me moving since my first project on in-flight processing of critical nanomaterials at Pune, India.

Since 2010, I have led four pivotal main projects with several fruitful collaborations on materials and technology, overseeing,
- - The research side that includes establishing cutting-edge lab facilities, effectively translating research findings to 70+ scientific communications (34 publications + 36 conferences) and 32 devices/setups.
  - The project management side led to the timely achievement of critical research milestones, project documentation, technical reporting, developing new funding proposals, and training young minds on acquired skill sets.
From my PhD to my Research Fellow work at NTU, Singapore, my collaborators and I performed research and development work to control materials by high-precision fluidics, uniform, and hybrid magnetic fields to induce controlled operation, live imaging, and Multiphysics numerical simulations to understand the complete process.
The PhD studies founded the field of programmable droplet micro-magnetofluidics, achieving droplet generation, merging, and mixing to fabricate Janus particles rapidly.
The RF work translated these findings to specific energy harvesting applications, magnetic cooling, thermal management, composite droplets for cancer treatments, and complete scientific understanding.
My SRF work at NTU, Singapore, was focused on AMD of TiAl alloys for aerospace industries. The work involved ML-driven forward and inverse materials design.

Title: “Magnetic Nanofluids for Cooling Devices with Electricity Harvesting from Waste Heat”

Design and Simulations of Magnetofluidic Self-Pumping Devices for Cooling and Electricity Harvesting
Target Applications: Cooling of Data Centers, Electronic Devices. Energy Harvesting from the Waste Heat.

Title: "Development of Magnetic Structures by Micro-Magnetofluidic Techniques"

Collaboration: SIMTECH, Singapore.
Development of micro-magnetofluidic (MMF), droplet MMF.
Role of various forces by MMF experiments and simulations.
Janus particle synthesis by droplet MMF for protein detection.
Droplet control, merging by uniform magnetic fields.
Applications: Lab-on-a-Chip devices, droplet microfluidics, biochemical assay, bioprinting, and reaction kinetics.

Title: ‘Feasibility Studies of Passivation of Nanometric Aluminum’.

Collaboration: HEMRL-DRDO, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
In-situ passivattion of aluminum nanoparticles (nAl) synthesized in Thermal Plasma Reactor.
Design, optimization for in-flight, in-situ passivation.
Enhancement in burning efficiency, active aluminum content with superior storage life.

Project 2: “Insitu carbon doping of Alumina nanoparticles by Thermal Plasma Reactor”

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Ph.D. Thesis Title: "Development of Magnetic Structures by Micro-Magnetofluidic Techniques".
Supervisor: Prof. Raju V. Ramanujan.