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Dynamics of self-propelled colloids and their application as active matter Choudhury, Udit
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Curriculum Vitae
Udit Choudhury
Heisenbergstrasse 3 Tel : (+49)15215714055
Stuttgart -70569,Germany E-mail: choudhury@is.mpg.de
Research
Nov 2012 – January 2018 PhD student in Materials Science at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany and in The University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Advisor: Prof. Peer Fischer (MPI, Germany, Nov 2012-present) and Prof. Andreas Hermann (RUG, Netherlands, July 2015-present)
Feb 2012 - Sep 2012 Research Assistant in Propulsion Physiology lab in the
Rowland Institute at Harvard University, MA, USA Advisor: Dr.Chris Richards
Jan 2010 - Jan 2012 Graduate Assistant at the Engineering, Science and Mechanics
Department, Virginia Tech, USA
Education
Jan 2010 - Jan 2012 Master of Science in Engineering Mechanics, Virginia Tech, USA,
Advisor : Prof. Daniel M Dudek
Thesis “Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Cockroach (Periplaneta Americana) Resilin” G.P.A. : 3.96/4.00
July 2005 - June 2009 Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honors), Jadavpur
University, India. G.P.A. : 8.24 /10
Conference(underlined is as presenter)
“Rheology of active colloidal suspensions”, Choudhury, U., Singh, D. P., Qiu T., Jeong
H.H, Mark A.G. and Fischer, P., (oral presentation)The Society of Rheology, 88th
Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, February,2017
“Nanorheology with nano-propellers in biological fluids”, Jeong H.H , Wu Z., Qiu T.,
Walker D., Mark A.G., Choudhury, U. and Fischer, P.,The Society of Rheology, 88th
Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, February, 2017
“Nanodiamond-Swimmers”, Choudhury U., Kim J.T., Jeong H.H. and Fischer P.,
Micro-Nano machines, Hannover, July2016. (poster)
“Surface interactions of active Janus particles on a hexagonal close-packed colloidal
crystal surfaces”, Choudhury U., Gibbs J.G. and Fischer P. (oral presentation) Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Meeting, Berlin, Germany, February 2015
“Dynamic mechanical properties of Cockroach resilin” Choudhury U. and Dudek
D.M.Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, January 2012. (oral presentation)
A Theoretical Framework for the Determination of Stretch-corrected Laminar
Burning Velocity using the Spherical Constant Volume Vessel Method” Ratna Kishore V., Choudhury U., Ray A. and Ravi M.R.. Proceedings of the 6th U.S National Combustion Meeting, Michigan, Ann Arbor ,USA May 2009
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Publications
Following is a list of publications by the author which are presented as part of the thesis. These publications form the basis of this Ph.D. thesis (apart from publication 4, which is an additional publication by the author not discussed in this thesis,):
1. Choudhury, U.†, Soler, L., G.† Gibbs, J., Sanchez, S. & Fischer, P. Surface
roughness-induced speed increase for active Janus micromotors. Chem. Commun. 51, 8660– 8663 (2015).
2. Choudhury, U. †, Straube, A. V. †, Fischer, P., Gibbs, J. G. & Höfling, F. Active colloidal
propulsion over a crystalline surface. New J. Phys. 19, 125010 (2017).
3. Kim, J. T. †, Choudhury, U. †, Jeong, H.-H. & Fischer, P. Nanodiamonds That Swim. Adv. Mater. 29, (2017). (selected as back cover)
4. Singh, D. P., Choudhury, U., Fischer, P. & Mark, A. G. Non-Equilibrium Assembly of Light-Activated Colloidal Mixtures. Adv. Mater. 29, 1701328 (2017).
5. Choudhury, U., Singh, D. P.Qiu, T. &Fischer, P. Chemical nanomotors at the gram scale at high density form an active opto-rheological medium. (under review).
