#Faculty Interview / Student Success- This Issue’s Theme – Young Faculty Interview / Success Story

Prof. S. Sudarshan

Deputy Director, Academic and Infrastructural Affairs (AIA)

Prof. S. SudarshanProf. Janani Sree Muralidharan is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department. Her research is in computational fluid dynamics, and modelling of fluid flows, specifically in heat transfer and blood flow analysis, all of which are at a micro-scale. For Prof. Muralidharan, the YFA and the seed grant she received helped her set up an experimental lab for microscale measurements which will support the computational predictions both on heat transfer for space applications and blood flow analysis. She has also set up experiments for nuclear energy-based heat transfer studies with the hope that she can extend this to micro-scale blood and medical devices-based studies in the future.

We are delighted to speak with Professor Yajnik for the Dean ACR Newsletter.

Prof. Yajnik, can you quickly take us through your academic and career trajectory?

After Fellowship School and Jai Hind College in Mumbai, I joined IIT Bombay for the 5-year integrated M. Sc. Physics program in 1975. I pursued my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of Prof. E. C. G. Sudarshan from 1980-86. In 1986, I was a Postdoctoral Associate with Prof. Steven Weinberg. I joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai in 1987 and then joined IIT Bombay as a faculty member in 1989.

You specialize in areas of unification of fundamental forces and cosmological impact of spontaneous parity breaking. Can you please explain your research in layman's language and its implications for the world?

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You have recently published a paper titled ‘Evolution of black hole shadow in the presence of ultralight bosons’ that explores the ideas of black holes throwing light on dark matter. Can you tell us more about this extremely intriguing concept?