P. B. Sunil Kumar

P. B. Sunil Kumar
P. B. Sunil Kumar
Director at Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
	In office; January 2017 – September 2022
Succeeded by	Seshadri Sekhar
Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Madras
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2006
Personal details
Nationality	Indian
Residence(s)	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Alma mater	University of Calicut; Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru;
Profession	Professor; Administrator;
Known for	Soft matter and ; Biological Physics
Website	Official website

P. B. Sunil Kumar is an Indian physicist, professor and the founding director of IIT Palakkad (January 2017 to September 2022). He also holds professorship^{(on lien)} at Department of Physics, IIT Madras.^[4] He is known for his research on Soft matter^[5] and Biological Physics.^[6]^[7] He is an elected member of Kerala Science Congress.^[8]

Awards and honors[edit]

Deshpande, Abhijit P.; Krishnan, J. Murali; Kumar, Sunil (2010). Rheology of Complex Fluids. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4419-6494-6.

Kumar P.B.S., Laradji M. (2018) Protein-Induced Morphological Deformations of Biomembranes. In: Bassereau P., Sens P. (eds) Physics of Biological Membranes. Springer, Cham.

Kumar, P. B. Sunil; Rao, Madan (16 March 1998). "Shape Instabilities in the Dynamics of a Two-Component Fluid Membrane". Physical Review Letters. 80 (11): 2489–2492. arXiv:cond-mat/9704171. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2489. S2CID 119440752.
Laradji, Mohamed; Sunil Kumar, P. B. (8 December 2005). "Domain growth, budding, and fission in phase-separating self-assembled fluid bilayers". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 123 (22): 224902. arXiv:cond-mat/0602051. doi:10.1063/1.2102894. PMID 16375505. S2CID 16373968.
Sunil Kumar, P. B.; Gompper, Gerhard; Lipowsky, Reinhard (23 April 2001). "Budding Dynamics of Multicomponent Membranes". Physical Review Letters. 86 (17): 3911–3914. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3911. PMID 11329355.
Tripathy, Madhusmita; Kumar, P. B. Sunil; Deshpande, Abhijit P. (11 May 2017). "Molecular Structuring and Percolation Transition in Hydrated Sulfonated Poly(ether ether ketone) Membranes". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121 (18): 4873–4884. arXiv:1701.06746. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b01045. PMID 28430444. S2CID 4765743.
Sachin Krishnan, T. V.; Das, Sovan L.; Kumar, P. B. Sunil (2019). "Transition from curvature sensing to generation in a vesicle driven by protein binding strength and membrane tension". Soft Matter. 15 (9): 2071–2080. doi:10.1039/C8SM02623H. PMID 30734812. S2CID 73420818.

^ "Sunil Kumar is Palakkad IIT director". Deccan Chronicle. 8 January 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
^ "Seshadri Sekhar appointed director of IIT-Palakkad". The Hindu. 20 September 2022.
^ "INDIAN RESEARCH INFORMATION NETWORK SYSTEM Vidwan-ID : 10394". irins.inflibnet.ac.in. IIT Madras.
^ "Department of Physics | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai". physics.iitm.ac.in. IIT Madras. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
^ Åström, Jan A.; Kumar, P. B. Sunil; Vattulainen, Ilpo; Karttunen, Mikko (16 May 2008). "Strain hardening, avalanches, and strain softening in dense cross-linked actin networks". Physical Review E. 77 (5): 051913. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.77.051913. PMID 18643108.
^ Desikan, Shubashree (8 January 2017). "A fully biocompatible cell-level motility engine". The Hindu.
^ Bagatolli, Luis; Kumar, P. B. Sunil (18 August 2009). "Phase behavior of multicomponent membranes: Experimental and computational techniques". Soft Matter. 5 (17): 3234–3248. doi:10.1039/B901866B. ISSN 1744-6848.
^ "About us – Kerala Science Congress". ksc.kerala.gov.in. KSCSTE, Government of Kerela. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
^ "PB Sunil Kumar bags MV Pylee Award". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
^ "Fellow Profile - Sunil Kumar, Prof. Palakurissi Balagopal". opsias.ias.ac.in. Indian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
^ "Fellow Profile - Sunil Kumar, Prof. Palakurissi Balagopal".

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