Aparna Baskaran

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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]

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Education and career

Baskaran 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 Dufty. [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

Baskaran 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

  1. 1 2 3 "Aparna Baskaran", Martin A. Fisher School of Physics people, Brandeis University, retrieved 2024-11-28
  2. 1 2 Curriculum vitae (PDF), Brandeis University, retrieved 2024-11-28
  3. ↑ Aparna Baskaran at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research, American Physical Society, retrieved 2024-11-28
  5. ↑ APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2024-11-28
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