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Biosketch
Professor, IIT Palakkad (July 2026-)
Professor, IIT Madras (March 2020-June 2026)
Associate Professor, IIT Madras (July 2014- February 2020)
Assistant Professor, IIT Madras (December 2008-July 2014)Reader (January 2006 –December 2008)
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India.Post-doc, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany (April 2004-December 2005)
Post-doc, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech (August 2001-April 2004)
Ph.D, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (1995-2001)
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Research
Selected recent publications
Origin of Persistent Boundary Motion in Confined Active Matter, Elsa Baby, Manoj Gopalakrishnan and Vishwas V. Vasisht, arxiv: 2605.20938 (2026).
Curvature-dependent dynamics of a bacterium confined in a giant unilamellar vesicle, O. Vincent, A. Sreekumari , M. Gopalakrishnan, V. Vasisht and B. R. Sarangi,
Physical Review E, 112 (2), 024408 (2025)Stationary states of an active Brownian particle in a harmonic trap, U. Nakul and M. Gopalakrishnan, Phys. Rev. E 108(2), 024121 (2023)
Frictional drag produced by motor proteins during cargo transport, U. Nakul and M. Gopalakrishnan, EPL 133(6), 68002 (2021)
Detection of sub-degree angular fluctuations of the local cell membrane slope using optical tweezers, R. Vaipully, V. Ramanujan, M. Gopalakrishnan, S. Bajpai and B. Roy, Soft Matter, 16(32), 7606-7612 (2020)
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Teaching
PH5619 Theory and Applications of Stochastic Processes
PH5006 Statistical Physics
PH5005 Applicable MathematicsPH4602 Introduction to Special Relativity
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