Research Interest
My broad academic interest is to understand how forms appear in nature across spatiotemporal scales, with a focus on the role of mechanics in facilitating such phenomena in living systems. My PhD research was about mechanical effects of topological defects and how growth in elastic membranes determine their shape. For my postdoctoral research at EPSCI Paris, I worked on the mechanical response of marginally stable materials. At the Simons Centre (NCBS), I am using active hydrodynamic theory to understand the evolution of such force carrying structures and their dynamic response under loading, which has implications for a continuum theory of cellular tensegrity and design of active metamaterials.
My broad academic interest is to understand how forms appear in nature across spatiotemporal scales, with a focus on the role of mechanics in facilitating such phenomena in living systems. My PhD research was about mechanical effects of topological defects and how growth in elastic membranes determine their shape. For my postdoctoral research at EPSCI Paris, I worked on the mechanical response of marginally stable materials. At the Simons Centre (NCBS), I am using active hydrodynamic theory to understand the evolution of such force carrying structures and their dynamic response under loading, which has implications for a continuum theory of cellular tensegrity and design of active metamaterials.
Ayan Roychowdhury
ayanrc at ncbs dot res dot in