About Prof. Madivala G. Basavaraj

Prof. Madivala G. Basavaraj, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of TechnologyMadras. Before joining IIT-Madras in February 2011, He spent 3 months as visiting fellow at KULeuven (Belgium) in Prof.Jan Vermants group. He was a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Norman J. Wagner at the University of Delaware (USA). He studied chemical engineering at SIT, Tumkur (Bangalore University), and received my M.S (Research) from IISc, Bangalore, by working on the determination of local dispersion coefficient and local holdup in a packed bed using X-rays. My PhD in chemical engineering is from KULeuven, Belgium (Prof. Jan Vermant). My PhD thesis was on - Tailoring colloidal gel rheology in bulk and at interfaces: Exploiting shape and surface chemistry effects.