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Manas Khan
PhD (Indian Institute of Science)
Department of Physics
Research Interest
Studying statistical physics of soft and active matters employing various experimental tools, principally optical tweezers, and Brownian dynamics simulations
Office - FB 488
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur - 208016, India
Specialization
Soft Matter and Biophysics, Optical Trapping and Micro manipulations, Modeling and Simulations
Education
Ph.D. (2011): Indian Institute of Science, India
M.S. (2003): Indian Institute of Science, India
B.Sc. (2000): Presidency College, Kolkata, India
Selected Publications
Manas Khan and A. K. Sood, Out-of-equilibrium microrheology using optical tweezers to probe directional viscoelastic properties under shear, Europhys. Lett. 92, 48001 (2010)
Manas Khan and A. K. Sood, Irreversibility to Reversibility Crossover in Transient Response of an Optically Trapped Particle, Europhys. Lett. 94, 60003 (2011)
Manas Khan and A. K. Sood, Tunable Brownian vortex at the interface, Phys. Rev. E 83, 041408 (2011)
Manas Khan, Harsh Soni and A .K. Sood, Optical Tweezer for probing Erythrocyte Membrane Deformability, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 233703 (2009)
Manas Khan and Thomas G. Mason, Trajectories of probe spheres in generalized linear viscoelastic complex fluids, Soft Matter 10, 9073-9081 (2014)
Manas Khan and Thomas G. Mason, Random walks of colloidal probes in viscoelastic materials, Phys. Rev. E 89, 042309 (2014)
Manas Khan and Thomas G. Mason, Local collective motion analysis for multi-probe dynamic imaging and microrheology , J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28, 305201 (2016)
Professional Experience
2011 – 2012 : Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Konstanz, Germany
2013 – 2016 : Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
2016 – 2017 : Research Fellow at University of San Diego, USA