Dinesh Kumar

I am a Senior Research Scientist at Dow Chemical Company, where I use computational fluid dynamics and control systems to enable scale-up of coatings and paints. 

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I received my Ph.D. degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I was supervised by Prof. Charles Schroeder. Before that, I completed my MASc degree at the University of Toronto under Prof. Arun Ramchandran, and bachelor's degree at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. 

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During my Ph.D., I focused on understanding the dynamic properties of fluid-filled soft materials using optical microscopy, automated flow control, and modeling. Mainly, I investigated the shape dynamics and phase behavior of single vesicles, as well as transient stretching and relaxation dynamics of membranes in steady and time-dependent extensional flows.