About
I am an assistant professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at UT Austin. My theoretical research group broadly focuses on understanding various soft and living matter systems over a wide range of length and time scales. Please see the Sahu Lab website for more info.
As a postdoc, I worked with Prof. Emre Aksay in the Physiology & Biophysics Department at Weill Cornell Medicine. We developed theories of electrically excitable biological membranes, with applications to neurons and the nervous system.
During my PhD, I worked with Prof. Kranthi Mandadapu to develop theories and numerical methods describing biological membranes. I collaborated with Dr. Joël Tchoufag, Yannick Omar, Alec Glisman, and Prof. Sho Takatori.
Before Berkeley, I majored in chemical engineering at Princeton University, where I worked with Prof. Howard Stone. For more information, please see my CV.
Select Publications
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Absolute vs convective instabilities and front propagation in lipid membrane tubes
[pdf] [doi] [suppl] [videos] [arXiv] ❖ (talk) + (slides) ❖ (long slides)
Physical Review Letters, 2022 -
Active contact forces drive non-equilibrium fluctuations in membrane vesicles
[pdf] [doi] [suppl] [code] [videos] [arXiv] ❖ (talk) + (slides)
Physical Review Letters, 2020 -
Geometry and dynamics of lipid membranes: The Scriven–Love number
[pdf] [doi] [suppl] [arXiv] ❖ (slides)
Physical Review E, 2020