Ep. 51: Conversation with Snigdha Thakur – Explorations in Computational Soft Matter and Life

Snigdha is a computational soft condensed matter physicist and a senior faculty member at IISER Bhopal: https://sthakurlab.iiserb.ac.in/. She uses computational physics to explore a variety of soft matter systems, including active matter and, of late biological systems. In this conversation, we discuss her journey as a physicist and how she developed an interest in soft condensed matter. We also discussed leadership in physics, as she has been the Chair of her department and a Dean at IISER Bhopal. There are many things to learn from Snigdha, and I enjoyed this discussion on topics related to physics and the pursuit of science. Listen as we humanize science. References: 1.     “Sthakur Group.” n.d. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://sthakurlab.iiserb.ac.in/. 2.    “‪Snigdha Thakur - ‪Google Scholar.” n.d. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q3X-5pQAAAAJ&hl=en. 3.    Fourth Paradigm conference, dir. 2020. Designing Synthetic Nano Motors by Snigdha Thakur, IISER Bhopal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J8F2Wd9AzM. 4.    “Principal Investigator | Raymond Kapral Research Group.” n.d. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://sites.chem.utoronto.ca/rkapral/content/principal-investigator. 5.    Raman Research Institute, dir. 2018. Biomimetic Behaviour of Synthetic Particles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9BVx8_4D-k. 6.    “Sunil Kumar’s Home Page.” n.d. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://physics.iitm.ac.in/~sunil/. 7.    Thakur, Snigdha, and Raymond Kapral. 2012. “Collective Dynamics of Self-Propelled Sphere-Dimer Motors.” Physical Review E 85 (2): 026121. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.026121.