Dr Sreeram K. Kalpathy joined the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT Madras as Assistant Professor in Oct 2015. Prior to this, he worked as a faculty member at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NIT-K), Surathkal, India. Sreeram received his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, the USA, and B.Tech + M.Tech (Dual Degree) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from IIT Madras.
Research in Sreeram's group involves the integration of various sub-fields of soft matter such as polymer chemistry, polymer physics, colloids, interfacial phenomena, dynamics of liquids with complex rheology and fluid instabilities to address problems in materials processing. Some significant research outcomes from his group have been the synthesis of photoresponsive polymers with illustration in light-assisted micropatterning, model development for prediction of coating flow dynamics over permeable and porous solids, and discovering fluid mechanical routes for stabilization of liquid films and emulsions by employing surface active materials.
Transport phenomena in soft matter and complex fluids
Photoresponsive and functional polymers
Colloids and dispersions
Interfacial wetting and fluid instabilities
Nanostructured ceramics
2022 - till date
2015 - 2022
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
2021-Young Faculty Recognition Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research, IIT Madras
2015-Best Paper Award in the track of Experimental and Theoretical Fluid Flow at International Conference on Fluids and Chemical Engineering (FluidsChe2015) Langkawi, Malaysia
2011-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2007-S. Anantharamakrishnan Memorial Award for highest CGPA in Dual degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras
