Mahesh M. Bandi

  Professor 

  • PhD Physics, University of Pittsburgh 2006.
  • MS Physics, University of Pittsburgh 2004.
  • MS Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh 2002.
  • BE Computer Science & Engineering, University of Madras 1998.

 

Research Career

  • 2022 - present.      Professor, OIST Graduate University
  • 2022 - present.      Faculty Associate, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru, India.
  • 2018 - present.      Staff Research Associate, Quantitative Life Sciences, ICTP, Italy.
  • 2018 - 2022.         Associate Professor, OIST Graduate University.
  • 2021 - 2022.          Executive committee member, APS Group for Statistical & Nonlinear Physics.
  • 2012 - 2018.          Assistant Professor, OIST Graduate University.
  • Summer 2013.       Simons Visiting Faculty, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India.​
  • 2009 - 2011.          Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University.​
  • 2006 - 2009.          Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • 2000 - 2006.          Graduate Research Assistant, University of Pittsburgh.

 

Selected Publications

  • M Venkadesan, A Yawar, C Eng, MA Dias, DK Singh, A Haims, SM Tommasini, MM Bandi, and S Mandre, "Stiffness of the human foot and evolution of the transverse arch" Nature 579, 97 (2020).
  • M. M. Bandi, V. S. Akella, D. K. Singh, R. S. Singh, and S. Mandre, "Hydrodynamic signatures of stationary Marangoni-driven surfactant transport" Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 264501 (2017).
  • M. M. Bandi, "Spectrum of Wind Power Fluctuations" Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 028301 (2017).
  • AC Slim, MM Bandi, JC Miller and L Mahadevan, "Dissolution-driven convection in a Hele-Shaw cell", Phys. Fluids. 25, 024101 (2013).
  • M. M. Bandi, J. R. Cressman Jr., and W. I. Goldburg, "Test of the Fluctuation Relation in Lagrangian Turbulence on a free surface", J. Stat. Phys. 130, 27 (2008).

 

Grants & Honors

  • Fluid Dynamics Research Prize, Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (2018).
  • Human Frontier Science Program, Young Investigators Grant (2013).