DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

DST - INSPIRE Faculty

DEEPIKA JANAKIRAMAN

Biography

Deepika Janakiraman obtained her Ph. D from the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. K. L. Sebastian. Subsequently, she was a Simons Career Development Fellow at the Simons Centre, NCBS, Bangalore. Her research focus is on modeling anomalous diffusion using theoretical methods.

Education

  • 2014 – Ph. D from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  • 2009 – Masters in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  • 2006 – Bachelors in Chemistry from Stella Maris College, Chennai.

Research Interests

  • Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, path integrals, theoretical chemistry

Representative Publications

 Path-integral formulation for Lévy flights: Evaluation of the propagator for free, linear, and harmonic potentials in the over-and underdamped limits, D Janakiraman; KL Sebastian; Phys. Rev. E, 2012, 86, 061105

 Unusual eigenvalue spectrum and relaxation in the Lévy–Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process; D Janakiraman; KL Sebastian; Phys. Rev. E, 2014, 90, 040101

 Lévy flights in the presence of a point sink of finite strength; D Janakiraman; KL Sebastian; Phys. Rev. E, 2017, 95, 012154

 Transition path time distributions for Lévy flights; D Janakiraman; J. Phys. A, 2018, 51, 285001

 

DEEPIKA JANAKIRAMAN

DST - INSPIRE Faculty
  • deepikaj@iitm.ac.in
  • +91-44-2257-4245
  • CYB 316, Department of Chemistry
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Chennai - 600036
  • INDIA

Honors and Rewards

  • DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award, July 2016 Session.
  • Simons Career Development Fellowship awarded by the Simons Centre, National Centre of Biological Sciences for 2015-16.
  • Rank Certificate and Silver Medal awarded by Stella Maris College (SMC), Chennai in 2006.