Research Experience

Postdoctoral research fellow: February 2016 - December, 2016, Supervisor: Prof. Yitzhak Rabin; Department of Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, ISRAEL.

Postdoctoral research fellow: June 2013 – November 2015, Prof. Thomas Voigtmann, Institute of Materials Physics in Space, German Aerospace Center, Cologne, GERMANY.

Postdoctoral research fellow: February 2012 – October 2012, Prof. Olivier Rivoire, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, FRANCE.

Expert Collaborator: November 2011 – January 2012, Prof. Olivier Rivoire, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, FRANCE.

• Non-equilibrium statistical physics
• Dynamics of supercooled liquids and glass transition
• Collective behavior of self-propelled colloids
• Rheology of complex fluids
• Evolutionary biology

• DAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship, Germany, 2013-2015
• CSIR-SRF in Physics, India, 2007-2010
• CSIR-JRF in Physics, India, 2005-2007

2025

1. Atypical Violation of the Stokes–Einstein Relation in a Dense Binary Lennard-Jones Mixture, S. Das and M. Priya, JETP Letters 121, 205 (2025).
2. Graph neural network for prediction of phase-ordering kinetics, V. Yadav, M. Priya, M. D. Shrimali, P. K. Jaiswal, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 35 (6), 061101 (2025).
3. Particle size disparity driven surface morphology in polydisperse mixtures, S. Das and M. Priya, Surface Engineering, (2025).
4. Dynamical properties of a pinned glass former with increasing softness, S. Suvarna, M. Priya, and P. K. Jaiswal, Physics of Fluids 37 (7), 073130 (2025).

2024

1. Diffusion in a complex mixture with random pairwise interparticle interactions, S Das, S Suvarna and M Priya, AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 2995 (1) (2024).
2. Role of range of interaction potential on structure and dynamics of a one-component system of particles interacting via Mie potential, S Suvarna and M Priya, AIP Advances  14, 045030 (2024).
3. Early time wetting kinetics in surface-directed spinodal decomposition for off-critical quenches: A molecular dynamics study, S. S. H. Zaidi, S. Suvarna, M. Priya, S. Puri, P. K. Jaiswal, The Journal of Chemical Physics 161 154703 (2024).

2023

1. Machine learning based prediction of phase ordering dynamics, S Chauhan, S Mandal, V Yadav, PK Jaiswal, M Priya, MD Shrimali, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 33 (6) (2023).
2. Host-Parasite Coevolution: A Review of Statistical Models, D Ganguly, and M Priya, Horizons in World Physics, Volume 310, Nova Science Publishers (2023).
3. Cooperation: An Essential Coevolution Phenomenon, S Suvarna and M Priya, Horizons in World Physics, Volume 310, Nova Science Publishers (2023).

2022

1. Statistical and spectral analysis of wind over a strategic location, N Srivastava, J Divyam, U Ghosh, M Priya, N Saxena, M Kumar, Journal of Water and Climate Change 13 (9), 3305-3322 (2022).
2. Universal fast mode regime in wetting kinetics, SSH Zaidi, PK Jaiswal, M Priya, S Puri, Physical Review E 106 (5), L052801 (2022).

2021

1. Host-parasite coevolution: Role of spatial topography of fitness landscape on evolvability of hosts, Saumya Suvarna, Madhu Priya*, Nishi Srivastava, DAE-SSPS 2021, Solid State Physics (India) 55, 107-108 (2021).

2020

1. Host–parasite coevolution: Role of selection, mutation, and asexual reproduction on evolvability, Madhu Priya, Prabhat K. Jaiswal, and Manish Dev Shrimali, Chaos 30, 073103 (2020).
2. Enhanced attraction between particles in a bidisperse mixture with random pair-wise interactions, Madhu Priya, and  Prabhat K. Jaiswal, Phase Transitions 93, 895 (2020).
3. Flow Behaviour of a model colloid-polymer mixture using mode-coupling theory, Madhu Priya, AIP Conference Proceedings 2265 (1), 030233 (2020).

2017

1. Shear induced thermophoresis in a compressible Lennard-Jones fluid, Madhu Priya and Yitzhak Rabin, Submitted to J. Chem. Phys., arXiv:1703.10461.

2015

1. Qualitatively different collective and single particle dynamics in a supercooled liquid, Madhu Priya, Neeta Bidhoodi, and Shankar P. Das, Phys. Rev. E 92, 062308 (2015) arXiv:1511.00254.

2014

1. Nonlinear rheology of dense colloidal systems with short-ranged attraction: A mode-coupling theory analysis, Madhu Priya and Thomas Voigtmann, J. Rheol. 58, 1163 (2014), arXiv:1401.7451.

2009

1. Elastic Behavior in a Supercooled Liquid: A Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Model, Madhu Priya and Shankar P. Das, Nonlinear Dynamics, Narosa Publishing House, 2009.

2007

1. Fragility and elastic behavior of a supercooled liquid, Madhu Priya and Shankar P. Das, Phys. Rev. E. 76, 061501 (2007), arXiv:0801.1377.

• Seed Money Grant, BIT Mesra ( PI, Rs. 1 Lakh).
• SERB-ECR Grant, DST India, 2018-2021 (PI, Rs. 22.45 Lakhs)
• SERB-CRG Grant, DST India, 2022-2025 (Co-PI, Rs. 38.10 Lakhs )

DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow, Germany, 2013-2015