Prerna Sharma

Associate Professor

Phone : +91-80-2293-2010 (O)
E-mail: prerna@iisc.ac.in
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/biocolloids/

Research Interests:
Soft matter, Biophysics

Educational History

Post doctoral fellowship at Brandeis University, USA
PhD: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Masters: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Bachelors: St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, India

Courses offered

Undergraduate courses: UP204 (Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics), UP203 (Electrodynamics)
Advanced courses: PH 350 (Soft Matter)

Awards / Honours / Affiliations

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Publications

  • Debasmita Mondal, Ameya G Prabhune, Sriram Ramaswamy, Prerna Sharma, “Strong confinement of active microalgae leads to inversion of vortex flow and enhanced mixing” eLife 10:e67663 (2021)
  • Lachit Saikia, Tanmoy Sarkar, Meera Thomas, V. A. Raghunathan, Anirban Sain and Prerna Sharma “Curvature instability of chiral colloidal membranes on crystallization” Nature Communications 1160 (2017).