Dr. Jayasri is an Associate Professor with MEC in the Department of Physics. Her research interests include Development of novel non-Boltzmann Monte Carlo techniques, Numerical simulations of colloidal systems in liquid crystals using finite difference methods, Parallelization of Monte Carlo methods, Self-assembly and hierarchical structures in liquid crystalline colloidal systems, phase transitions in confined liquid crystals in various complex geometries and liquid crystal elastomers.
Dr. Jayasri holds a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Hyderabad, India.
I have been involved in research and development of computational tools to study soft condensed matter systems.
My interests include but not confined to:
Title: Complex dielectric structures in liquid crystals as tunable metamaterials
Principal Investigator(PI): Dr. Jayasri Dontabhaktuni
Co-Investigator: Dr. Dibakar Roy Chowdhury
Objective: To design liquid crystal based tunable all-dielectric metamaterials
Funding agency: SERB (EMR), Govt. of India.
Total Amount Sanctioned: INR 24,45,000 /- for 3 years
Project JRF: Prateeksha Sakhare
Outcomes till now: 4 Conference presentations + 2 proceedings + 3 journals (in preparation)
D. S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Researcher (Sep 2013- April 3rd 2014)
CMSD, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
DST-PURSE Post-Doctoral Researcher (Feb 2012-Aug 2013)
CMSD, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
Marie Curie Experienced Researcher (Aug 2009-Nov 2011)
FMF, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
JRF: 2 (on-going)
M. Tech project: 1 (co-guidance with Dept of EEE, Osmania University College of Engineering)
UG Research Assistants: 5 (2 years duration) (led to publications and conference presentations).
UG Major Projects: 7 students (6 months), 3 students (1 year), 1 student (2 years)