Presently I am a research worker and teacher at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. My research interests have evolved from studying flow past a cylinder to understanding heat at the atomistic level to developing multiscale models for solids and polymers which can bridge different length and time scales to help understand the thermal and mechanical properties of solids and soft matter in addition to the diffusive, viscoelastic and fracture properties of the latter. Having gained experience in diverse areas of mechanics and physics of solid, fluid and soft matter, I am mostly interested in understanding continuum properties of matter from atomistic point of view. Once the basis of these continuum properties are revealed from the models at atomic, molecular and coarse-grained levels, my interest revolves around finding interesting mechanical, thermal, electrical and magnetic properties which can help design new materials and composites.
I received my PhD in 2015 under the supervision of Prof Ellad Tadmor, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota. My PhD research has been mostly about understanding heat at the atomistic level and then proposing the continuum equivalents in the form of constitutive relations and partial differential equations. In the process we investigated both equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena for several steady and unsteady cases. We were also able to develop a framework in which the interaction of thermostats to the system can be studied and a well known Kapitza effect can be reduced. The work also explored stochastic and continuum methods to model the latent heat release in the first order transition of ideal silicon surfaces into dimers. I have also been a postdoctoral fellow during 2016-17 where I worked with Prof. Sinan Keten at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University on the problems of microrheology with transition state theory, multiscale modeling of polymers and ballistic impact on membranes and graphene. In 2018, I was appointed as a research associate at the Department of Biomedical engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech where I worked with Prof. Romesh C. Batra on the problems of dynamics of release and pull of graphene nanoribbons, graphene folding and fracture behavior of graphene.
Amit Singh 