General Information

Associate Professor, IIT Bombay, India

Email : mithunc[at]iitb.ac.in

Tel (office) : +91 22 2576 7632

Website:https://mchmater.wixsite.com/cmithun

Academic Background

  • M.Sc. Chemistry (Physical) - University of Calcutta, India, 2008
  • Ph.D.(Dr. rer. nat) Physics - University of Freiburg, Germany, 2012

Positions held

  • Associate Professor, IIT Bombay, India (2023-till date)
  • Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay, India (2018-2023)
  • Associate research scholar and Postdoctoral research fellow, Princeton University, USA (2015 – 2018)
  • Postdoctoral research associate, University of St Andrews, UK (2014 – 2015)
  • Postdoctoral research associate, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, (2012 – 2013)
 

Research Areas

  • Experimental soft matter with emphasis on polymers:
  • Non-equilibrium phenomena in complex spaces
  • Droplets and Colloids
  • Particle tracking probe dynamics
  • Semicrystalline electroactive & electronic polymers

Publications

 
Awards and Honors
 
Ramanujan Fellow 2018
Early Career Research Award 2019