Biography

Rajagopal Vellingiri is an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at IIT Ropar. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at BITS Pilani – Goa Campus (2015-2019), and a postdoctoral research associate at Imperial College London (2014). He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London, MTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras, and BTech in Chemical Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology. His broad research interests are in fluid flows and in particular on problems involving moving interfaces. He uses a combination of mathematical modelling, analysis and numerical computations to study problems arising from observations in nature as well as a variety of technological applications.

Education

• PhD - Imperial College London, UK, 2014
• MTech - IIT Madras, 2008
• BTech - Coimbatore Institute of Technology, 2003

Awards

• Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellowship (2009-2012).