Pritha Dolai

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Professional Experience: 

10/2023 - 12/2024, Postdoctoral Fellow, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen 91054, Germany
Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin, Erlangen 91058, Germany
09/2021 – 09/2023, Postdoctoral Fellow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
10/2017 – 04/2021, Postdoctoral Fellow, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru, India

Contact Details

E-mail: 

pritha@nitk.edu.in
Academic Background

2018 - PhD (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
2012 - M.Sc. (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
2010 - B.Sc. (Physics), Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata

Areas of Interest

Soft matter and Biophysics
Neuron growth dynamics
Active matter
Boundary driven systems
Nonequilibrium physics

Significant Publications

1. Boundary layers and universal distribution in boundary driven active systems,
Pritha Dolai and Arghya Das,
arXiv:2412.20287

2. Shape-dependent motility of polar inclusions in active baths,
Pritha Dolai, Aditya Singh Rajput and K. Vijay Kumar,
Physical Review E, 110, 014607 (2024).

3. Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality in two-component driven diffusive models: Symmetry and renormalization group perspectives,
Pritha Dolai, Aditi Simha and Abhik Basu,
Physical Review E, 109, 064122 (2024).

4. Single-molecule imaging of stochastic interactions that drive dynein activation and cargo movement in cells,
N A Tirumala, G M Ian Redpath, S V Skerhut, Pritha Dolai, N Kapoor-Kaushik, N Ariotti, K Vijay Kumar and Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan,
Journal of Cell Biology, 223(3), e202210026 (2024).

5. Specific heat of a driven lattice gas,
Pritha Dolai and Christian Maes,
Annals of Physics, 460, 169546 (2024).

6. Calorimetry for active systems,
Pritha Dolai, Christian Maes and Karel Netočný,
SciPost Physics, 14, 126 (2023).

7. Inducing a bound state between active particles,
Pritha Dolai, Simon Krekels and Christian Maes,
Physical Review E, 105, 044605 (2022).

8. Geometric constraints alter the emergent dynamics of an active particle,
Anirudh Murali, Pritha Dolai, Ashwini Krishna, K Vijay Kumar and Shashi Thutupalli,
Physical Review Research, 4, 013136 (2022).

9. Universal scaling in active single-file dynamics,
Pritha Dolai, Arghya Das, Anupam Kundu, Chandan Dasgupta, Abhishek Dhar and K Vijay Kumar,
Soft Matter, 16, 7077 (2020).

10. Phase separation in binary mixtures of active and passive particles,
Pritha Dolai, Aditi Simha and Shradha Mishra,
Soft Matter 14, 6137 (2018).

11. Universal spatiotemporal scaling of distortions in a drifting lattice,
Pritha Dolai, Abhik Basu and Aditi Simha,
Physical Review E, 95, 052115 (2017).

12. Large deviation statistics of non-equilibrium fluctuations in a sheared model-fluid,
Pritha Dolai and Aditi Simha,
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 083203, 2016, (2016).

 

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Department of Physics, NITK, Surathkal
P. O. Srinivasnagar, Mangalore - 575 025
Karnataka, India.

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