P. B. Sunil Kumar

• University of Calicut
• Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru

P. B. Sunil Kumar
Director at Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
In office January 2017 [1]  –September 2022 [2]
Profession	Professor Administrator
Known for	Soft matter and Biological Physics
Website	Official website

P. B. Sunil Kumar is an Indian physicist, professor and the founding director of IIT Palakkad, from January 2017 to September 2022. He also holds professorship^{(on lien)} at Department of Physics, IIT Madras. ^[4] He is known for his research on Soft matter ^[5] and Biological Physics. ^{[6] [7]} He is an elected member of Kerala Science Congress. ^[8]

Awards and honors

• Prof. M. V. Pylee Award (2019) ^[9]
• Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (2016) ^[10]
• Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (2023) ^[11]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Deshpande, Abhijit P.; Krishnan, J. Murali; Kumar, Sunil (2010). Rheology of Complex Fluids. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN   978-1-4419-6494-6.

Chapter

• Kumar P.B.S., Laradji M. (2018) Protein-Induced Morphological Deformations of Biomembranes. In: Bassereau P., Sens P. (eds) Physics of Biological Membranes. Springer, Cham.

Selected articles

• Kumar, P. B. Sunil; Rao, Madan (16 March 1998). "Shape Instabilities in the Dynamics of a Two-Component Fluid Membrane". Physical Review Letters. 80 (11): 2489–2492. arXiv: cond-mat/9704171 . doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2489. S2CID   119440752.
• Laradji, Mohamed; Sunil Kumar, P. B. (8 December 2005). "Domain growth, budding, and fission in phase-separating self-assembled fluid bilayers". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 123 (22): 224902. arXiv: cond-mat/0602051 . doi:10.1063/1.2102894. PMID   16375505. S2CID   16373968.
• Sunil Kumar, P. B.; Gompper, Gerhard; Lipowsky, Reinhard (23 April 2001). "Budding Dynamics of Multicomponent Membranes" . Physical Review Letters. 86 (17): 3911–3914. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3911. PMID   11329355.
• Tripathy, Madhusmita; Kumar, P. B. Sunil; Deshpande, Abhijit P. (11 May 2017). "Molecular Structuring and Percolation Transition in Hydrated Sulfonated Poly(ether ether ketone) Membranes". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121 (18): 4873–4884. arXiv: 1701.06746 . doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b01045. PMID   28430444. S2CID   4765743.
• Sachin Krishnan, T. V.; Das, Sovan L.; Kumar, P. B. Sunil (2019). "Transition from curvature sensing to generation in a vesicle driven by protein binding strength and membrane tension". Soft Matter. 15 (9): 2071–2080. doi:10.1039/C8SM02623H. PMID   30734812. S2CID   73420818.

References

1. "Sunil Kumar is Palakkad IIT director". Deccan Chronicle. 8 January 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
2. "Seshadri Sekhar appointed director of IIT-Palakkad". The Hindu. 20 September 2022.
3. "INDIAN RESEARCH INFORMATION NETWORK SYSTEM Vidwan-ID : 10394". irins.inflibnet.ac.in. IIT Madras.
4. "Department of Physics | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras, Chennai". physics.iitm.ac.in. IIT Madras. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
5. Åström, Jan A.; Kumar, P. B. Sunil; Vattulainen, Ilpo; Karttunen, Mikko (16 May 2008). "Strain hardening, avalanches, and strain softening in dense cross-linked actin networks". Physical Review E. 77 (5): 051913. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.77.051913. PMID   18643108.
6. Desikan, Shubashree (8 January 2017). "A fully biocompatible cell-level motility engine". The Hindu.
7. Bagatolli, Luis; Kumar, P. B. Sunil (18 August 2009). "Phase behavior of multicomponent membranes: Experimental and computational techniques". Soft Matter. 5 (17): 3234–3248. doi:10.1039/B901866B. ISSN   1744-6848.
8. "About us – Kerala Science Congress". ksc.kerala.gov.in. KSCSTE, Government of Kerela. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
9. "PB Sunil Kumar bags MV Pylee Award". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
10. "Fellow Profile - Sunil Kumar, Prof. Palakurissi Balagopal". opsias.ias.ac.in. Indian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
11. "Fellow Profile - Sunil Kumar, Prof. Palakurissi Balagopal".