Projects

Theses, projects & collaborations

Completed and ongoing theses, student projects and awards, visitors to the lab, and recorded talks. Time-bound projects are available with defined start and end dates.

Theses

PhD & Master's theses

PhD theses completed

  • 2026RajniPH21072PhD

Master's theses completed / ongoing

  • 2026–27Swagotom BhattacharyaMS22112In-house
  • 2026–27Tanmay PandeyMS22113In-house
  • 2026–27Sahil DeshmukhMS22233Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  • 2026–27Shreyas BeheraMS22135In-house
  • 2025–26Yashika AhujaMS21243University of Saarland, Germany
  • 2025–26Vatsal KabraMS21008French National Centre for Scientific Research
  • 2024–25Rahul KumarMS20167Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
  • 2022–23Suhasi GuptaMS18210In-house
  • 2022–23Harshit KumarMS18004In-house
  • 2022–23Hemraj MeenaMS18029In-house
  • 2022–23Sourav DhaniaMS17015In-house
  • 2022–23Smriti ChhibberMS18142Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
  • 2021–22Sanat GhoshMS16117In-house
Recognition

Awards & grants for students

Best Poster Award to HarshmeetInternational Soft Matter Conference · 2026
ANRF travel award to Rajni (PhD)International meeting · 2025
Talk invitation to RajniInternational Soft Matter Conference, Spain · 2025
2nd prize to HarshmeetCo-Design for Translational Research Workshop, CSIR Chandigarh · 2025
3rd prize to RajniCo-Design for Translational Research Workshop, CSIR Chandigarh · 2025
3rd prize to ShuchitaCo-Design for Translational Research Workshop, CSIR Chandigarh · 2025
Research projects

Project students

Ongoing

Ayushmann MS25 Anamika MS25 Keshav MS25 Aryan MS24 Mitul MS24 Abhinav MS24 Avneesh MS23 Aaradhya MS23 Aryan MS23 Palaash MS23 Raj MS23 Saurav MS23 Sanya MS23

Completed (2021 – )

Vishal MS24 Koushik MS23 Ridima MS23 Shombit MS23 Komal MS23 Aayush MS23 Sayar MS19 Jai MS19

…plus around 10 students from MS17, MS18 and MS19: around 20 students in total from various batches.

Collaborations

Visitors & exchanges (2021 – )

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Talks & videos

YouTube channel
Project · 2025–26

Quantifying Membrane Fluctuations to Measure Fluidity, Asymmetry, Relaxation Time

Project by Avneesh and Ridima.

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GIAN course · 2025

Lipid Membranes – from Cells to Synthetic Biology

Recorded lectures from the GIAN course.

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Project · 2021–23

Generation of Bilayer Asymmetry and Membrane Curvature by the Sugar-Cleaving Enzyme Invertase

Project by Abhimanyu and others, presented at the 8th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting.

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