Dr. Kedar Joshi
Designation : Assistant Professor (Program Chair)
Broad Area of Expertise : Chemical Engineering
Email : kedar{at}iitgoa.ac.in
Contact Number : 8322490132
Address : Academic block 2 (Room: BL4), IIT GOA, Farmagudi, Ponda 403401
Educational Qualifications
- BE (Chemical Engineering), ICT Mumbai 2012
- PhD (Chemical Engineering), Lehigh University, PA USA 2017
Areas of Research
Soft matter
Directed and self-assembly of colloids.
Understanding bulk behaviour of Active and passive colloidal system.
Semiflexible nanomaterials and Microrobotics
Courses Taught
- CM631 Advanced Thermodynamics (Running Autumn 2025)
- CM608 Advanced transport processes (Spring)
- CM603 Science and technology of colloids.
Professional Appointments
- Assistant professor, IIT Goa (present)
- Postdoctoral Associate at Rice university, Houston, TX, USA 2017-2021
Recent Publications
- Slow relaxation dynamics of superparamagnetic colloidal beads in time varying fields, PRM, 2024
- Aligned colloidal clusters in an alternating rotating magnetic field elucidated by magnetic relaxation, PNAS, 2024
- Extension of kelvin's equation to dipolar colloids, PNAS, 2022
- Characterizing the spinodal evolution of paramagnetic colloids in time- varying magnetic fields using Minkowski functionals, Soft matter, 2020
Recognition and Awards
- Early Career Research Grant. ANRF, 2025 - 2028
- Kenneth Earhart research award for research in soft matter, Emulsion Polymer Institute Lehigh University, 2017
- Dean doctoral fellowship, Lehigh University, 2013
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