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Dr. Golak Kunti

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Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

4 years

Teaching and Research

Microfluidics

Mail: golak.kunti@sru.edu.in

Educational
Qualifications
(From Highest)

2020

Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

2015

M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

2013

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology

Professional
Experience

2026

Assistant Professor at SR University, Warangal, from 2026-07-15 to .

2025

Assistant Professor at Medicaps University, Indore, from 2025-08-18 to 2026-06-21.

2024

Postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, from 2024-04-04 to 2025-07-31.

2019

Postdoctoral fellow at Technion-Israel Institute of technology, Israel , from 2019-11-04 to 2022-09-30.

Key Publications

Kunti, Golak and Bhattacharya, Anandaroop and Chakraborty, Suman. "Numerical investigations of electrothermally actuated moving contact line dynamics: Effect of property contrasts". Physics of Fluids. vol.29, no.8, pp.082009,2017. DOI: 10.1063/1.4999922

Kunti, Golak and Bhattacharya, Anandaroop and Chakraborty, Suman. "Alternating current electrothermal modulated moving contact line dynamics of immiscible binary fluids over patterned surfaces". Soft Matter. vol.13, no.37, pp.6377-6389,2017. 10.1039/C7SM00684E

Kunti, Golak and Dhar, Jayabrata and Bandyopadhyay, Saumyadwip and Bhattacharya,Anandaroop and Chakraborty,Suman. "Energy-efficient generation of controlled vortices on low-voltage digital microfluidic platform". Applied Physics Letters. vol.113, no.12, pp.124103,2018. DOI: 10.1063/1.5042143

Kunti, Golak and Dhar, Jayabrata and Bhattacharya, Anandaroop and Chakraborty, Suman. "Joule heating-induced particle manipulation on a microfluidic chip". Biomicrofluidics. vol.13, no.1, pp.014113,2019. DOI: 10.1063/1.5082978

Kunti, Golak and Dhar, Jayabrata and Bhattacharya, Anandaroop and Chakraborty, Suman. "Directionally controlled open channel microfluidics". Physics of Fluids. vol.31, no.9, pp.092003,2019. DOI: 10.1063/1.5118728

Kunti, Golak and Agarwal, Tarun and Bhattacharya, Anandaroop and Maiti, Tapas Kumar and Chakraborty, Suman. "On-Chip Concentration and Patterning of Biological Cells Using Interplay of Electrical and Thermal Fields". Analytical Chemistry. vol.92, no.1, pp.838-844, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03364

Kunti, Golak and Wu, Yue and Yossifon, Gilad. "Rational Design of Self- Propelling Particles for Unified Cargo Loading and Transportation". Small. vol.17, no.17, pp.2007819, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202007819

Nidhi M. Diwakar,Golak Kunti, TouviaMiloh, Gilad Yossifon, Orlin Velev, AC electrohydrodynamic propulsion and rotation of active particles of engineered shape and asymmetry, Current Opinionin Colloid &Interface Science, Vol 59,101586, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2022.101586

A. M. Boymelgreen, G. Kunti, P. Garcia-Sanchez, G. Yossifon, β€œThe influence of frequency and gravity on the orientation of active metallodielectric Janus particles translating under a uniform applied alternatingcurrent electric field,” Soft Matter, 20, 4143-4151 (2024).

Research Projects / Patents

System For Particle Manipulation And Aggregation

Awards and Honors / Achievements

award

I have achieved prestigious Planning and budgeting committee fellowship in Israel based on my research work.

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