Anusuya Pal

Education:

2011-2016: Integrated Masters (IMSc) in Physics, University of Hyderabad, India

2017-2018: Master of Science in Physics, WPI, USA

2017-Present: PhD in Physics, under supervision of Prof. Germano S. Iannacchione, WPI, USA

A five-year Integrated program from the University of Hyderabad gave me a broad perspective on interdisciplinary research. During this program, I got exposure to all the components of basic sciences such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics in the first two years and three years specialization in Physics. I have been appointed as a Teaching Assistant (TA) since January 2017 in the Department of Physics. My research interest broadly lies in exploring the aspects of biological (soft) systems that apply the approaches and methods of simple fundamental laws of Physics. Besides my research, I actively participate in mentoring high school and undergraduate students.

Office Location

Order-Disorder Phenomena Lab (ODPL), Olin Hall 004, Department of Physics

Contact

Phone:

508-831-5282

apal@wpi.edu

Awards

2017-2018: Received Graduate Travel Award at WPI

Selected for Women’s Research and Mentoring Program (WRAMP) as a Graduate Mentor for Fall 2018 and continued for Spring 2019 at WPI

Selected for WPI Tinkerbox which provides seed funding for WPI student-initiated innovation and entrepreneurship ideas.

Appointed as a graduate liaison for Early Research Experience in E-Term (EREE) program.

Research Interests

Research Interests:

Drying droplets (Colloids, Liquid Crystals)

Bio-statistics

IR thermography

Microscopy

Scholarly Work

Scholarly Work:

Pal, Anusuya, et al. "Phase separation of a nematic liquid crystal in the self-assembly of lysozyme in a drying aqueous solution drop." MRS Communications 9.1 (2019): 150-158.

Pal, Anusuya, et al. "A Comparative Study of the Phase Separation of a Nematic Liquid Crystal in the Self-assembling Drying Protein Drops." MRS Advances 4.22 (2019): 1309-1314.