Assistant Professor, Kotak School of Sustainability (KSS)
Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE), Room 206, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208016
PhD, Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2018)
MS (Engineering), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2015)
BS-MS (Physics), Department of Atomic Energy - Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai (2013)
P. Prakash, Y. Baig, F. J. Peaudecerf, R. E. Goldstein, “Dynamics of an algae-bacteria microcosm: photosynthesis, chemotaxis, and expulsion in inhomogeneous active matter”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2025, 122, 12. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2410225122
P. Prakash*, M. Vona, R. E. Goldstein, “Feeders and Expellers: two types of pullers with outboard cilia, have distinct surface interactions”, Phys. Rev. Fluids, 2024, 9, 103101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.103101
See highlight from Physical Review Fluids: https://x.com/PhysRevFluids/status/1891382154556285076
P. Prakash, X. Jiang, L. Richards, Z. Schofield, P. Schäfer, M. Polin, O. Soyer, M. Asally, “Emergence of synchronised growth oscillations in filamentous fungi”, J. Roy. Soc. Interface, 2024, 21, 20240574. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0574
P. Prakash, O. A. Croze, “Photogyrotactic concentration of a population of swimming microalgae across a porous layer” Front. Phys., 2021, 9, 744428. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.744428
P. Prakash*, A. Z. Abdulla, M. Varma, “Contact force mediated rapid deposition of colloidal microspheres flowing over microstructured barriers”, Langmuir, 2021, 37, 6915–6922. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00370
P. Prakash*, A. Z. Abdulla, V. Singh, M. Varma, “Swimming statistics of cargo loaded single bacteria”, Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 9499–9505.
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SM01066A
P. Prakash, A. Z. Abdulla, V. Singh, M. Varma, “Tuning the torque speed characteristics of the bacterial flagellar motor to enhance swimming speed”, Phys. Rev. E, 2019, 100, 062609. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.062609
Assistant Professor, Kotak School of Sustainability, IITK (2025 onwards)
Research Affiliate, Trinity College, Cambridge (2021-2024)
Co-organiser, BioLunch Seminar Series, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge (2021-2025)
Panelist, FACE Symposium at Stanford University (2025)
Workshop on Biological Fluids and Flows, University of Cambridge (2022)
Workshop on Motility in Microbes, Molecules and Matter, Institute of Physics, London (2021)
Online Workshop on The Physics of Life, Princeton University (2020)