HIRING STUDENTS NOW
The Complex Fluids Laboratory at the University of Toronto is currently accepting applications for Ph.D. positions for Fall 2024. Contact Arun.Ramchandran@utoronto.ca with "Ph.D. application" as the subject, and with curriculum vitae, transcripts and a statement of purpose as contents.
The University of Toronto embraces Diversity and is building a culture of belonging that increases our capacity to effectively address and serve the interests of our global community. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black and racialized persons, women, persons with disabilities, and people of diverse sexual and gender identities. We value applicants who have demonstrated a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and recognize that diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise are essential to strengthening our academic mission. The University strives to be an equitable and inclusive community, and proactively seeks to increase diversity among its community members. Our values regarding equity and diversity are linked with our unwavering commitment to excellence in the pursuit of our academic mission.
The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our recruitment, assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities.
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH
The Complex Fluids Laboratory at the University of Toronto works on practical problems driven by curiosity, industrial challenges and scientific and technological issues facing global health and development. Our current research projects are motivated by such diverse areas as mass transport in flows of concentrated suspensions (e.g. drilling muds and blood), kinetics and mass transfer aspects of dissolution of CO2 in switchable solvents, emulsification and drop coarsening mechanisms in oil sands, fabric softeners, embolic ischemia, multiple sclerosis and blood flow.
Our long term vision is to make the Complex Fluids Laboratory at University of Toronto a world leader in the characterization of soft-particle suspensions and particle-surface interactions, and in the design of new materials for highly specific applications.
Our laboratory conducts experimental and theoretical studies that elucidate the structure and properties of complex fluids. The complex fluid that is the focus of our lab is the particulate suspension- a mixture of particles with an immiscible fluid. Of specific interest to us are suspensions of soft particles, such as drops, microgels, vesicles and capsules, which are ubiquitous in our day-to-day life and in the industry. Our current studies are focused on both hydrodynamic and non-hydrodynamic (thermodynamic) aspects of the interactions between two soft particles or between a soft particle and a surface, and we are building devices to measure these interactions.
To learn more, please visit the webpages of the members of the Complex Fluids Laboratory here and check out our publication list here.
Latest News
June 2018
Ghata wins the 2018 NAMF student award! Congratulations Ghata!
May 2018
Sachin presents his short time interfacial tension work at the AOCS annual meeting in Minneapolis.March 2018
Suraj presents his work at the APS March meeting in Los Angeles.Suraj receives the Faculty Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulations Suraj!
December 2017
Jayant is hired by Hatch. Congratulations Jayant!October 2017
Ghata presents her work at the AIChE conference in Minneapolis.Sachin presents his work at the CSChE conference in Edmonton.
Sourojeet arrives for graduate studies after a wrestle with Canadian immigration.
September 2017
Sadaf, Surya and Yuan-Kai arrive for graduate studies. Welcome!Yang gets a post-doctoral position at the Utrecht in Netherlands. Congratulations Yang!
July 2017
Yang's paper on a microfluidic fabrication method for studying occlusive clots for is accepted for publication in Biomedical Microdevices (Link to article). Congratulations Yang!May 2017
Alexander, Chang, Ling, Rui, Sargol, Shankavi, Srishti join the lab for summer work. Welcome!Sachin receives the Ralph-Potts Memorial Award at the AOCS! Congratulations Sachin!
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