Aparna Baskaran
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Aparna Baskaran is an Indian and American theoretical physicist whose research studies the statistical mechanics of soft matter, including the self-propelled motion of bacteria through fluids and the clustering of self-propelled particles. She is a professor in the Martin A. Fisher School of Physics at Brandeis University.[1]
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| Alma mater | University of Florida |
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| Thesis | Statistical mechanics and linear response for a granular fluid (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | James W. Dufty |
| Website | www |
Baskaran earned a master's degree in physics at the Raman School of Physics of Pondicherry University in India.[2] She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 2006.[1] Her dissertation, Statistical mechanics and linear response for a granular fluid, was supervised by James W. Dufty.[3]
After postdoctoral research at Syracuse University she joined the Brandeis University faculty as an assistant professor in 2010,[2] and subsequently became a full professor there.[1]
