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Pankaj Popli

Positions

  • IoE Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Mentor: Prof Sriram Ramaswamy
    Department of Physics,
    Indian Institute of Science,
    Bangalore, India.

Nov 2021 - Present


  • Research Associate
  • Mentor: Prof Sriram Ramaswamy
    Department of Physics,
    Indian Institute of Science,
    Bangalore, India.

May 2021 - Oct 2021


  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Mentor: Prof Surajit Sengupta
    Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences,
    Tata institute of fundamental research,
    Hyderabad, India.

Aug 2020 - Apr 2021


Education

  • Ph.D.
  • Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences,
    Tata institute of fundamental research,
    Hyderabad, India.

2013 - 2020


  • Bachelor of Science (Physics Hons.)
  • Hindu College,
    University of Delhi,
    Delhi, India.

2009 - 2012


Ph.D. Thesis

Skills

  • Theoretical
  • Experienced in Non-affine projection formalism, lattice theory of 2d and 3d crystals, lattice defects.

    Good command on Monte Carlo (MC), Molecular Dynamics (MD), and Langevin Dynamics (LD) simulation techniques.

    Introductory knowledge in LAMMPS.


  • Computational
  • Languages:
  • Proficient in programming languages ‘C’, ‘C++’, and Mathematica scripting language.
  • Computation:
  • Fair understanding of Open MP, Matlab, and Python.
  • OS:
  • Fair understanding of operating systems such as Linux, Mac, and Windows.
  • Office:
  • LaTeX, Open Office, Keynote, Inkscape.


Teaching

  • Instructor
  • Classical Mechanics
    Jointly with Prof. Surajit Sengupta

2020


  • Teaching Assistant
  • Solid state physics 1
    With Prof. Subodh R Shenoy

2020

  • Quantum Mechanics 1
    With Prof. Subodh R Shenoy

2015


Fellowships/Awards

  • IoE Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

2021


  • SERB Fellowship
  • TIFR-Hyderabad, India.

2019


  • Research Scholar
  • TIFR-Hyderabad, India.

2013


  • JEST
  • National level Joint Entrance Screening Test, India.

2012


Conferences/Schools/Workshops

  • Workshop on emergent dynamics and self-assembly of out of equilibrium colloids
  • Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2019


  • School on entropy, information and order in soft matter
  • International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore, India.

2018


  • 5th Indian statistical physics community meeting
  • International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore, India.

2018


  • ICTS-RRI, 6th Bangalore school on statistical physics
  • Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore, India.

2015


  • Workshop on soft matter self assembly and dynamics
  • Department of Physics, University of Hyderabad, India.

2014


Talks/Poster

  • CompFlu
  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, India. (Poster)

2019


  • Cecam workshop
  • Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. (Poster)

2019


  • Glass Seminar Goettingen
  • Institut für Physik, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany. (Talk)

2019


  • Institut für Physik
  • University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany. (Talk)

2019


Skills

C/C++

95%

Mathematica

90%

Matlab

90%

Python

75%

Open MP

70%

LaTeX

80%

Inkscape

90%

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