About the HOD
Greetings from the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Tirupati!
Prof. Anki Reddy Katha obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Aix-Marseille University (France), Clark University, and the University of California, Irvine (USA). Subsequently, he served as a Chief Engineer at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Samsung Research India) in Bangalore. After this, he joined IIT Guwahati. He was a visiting professor at UPMC, Paris, and a visiting researcher at Kyoto University.
After seven years at IIT Guwahati, Anki joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Tirupati in August 2021. He was recently awarded the DAAD Research Stays Fellowship. His research interests include computational biophysics, electrochemical systems, membrane science, animal locomotion, terramechanics, fluid dynamics, granular physics, and suspensions. He has authored over 70 publications, guided nine Ph.D. scholars, and currently supervises six Ph.D. candidates.
After seven years at IIT Guwahati, Anki joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Tirupati in August 2021. He was recently awarded the DAAD Research Stays Fellowship. His research interests include computational biophysics, electrochemical systems, membrane science, animal locomotion, terramechanics, fluid dynamics, granular physics, and suspensions. He has authored over 70 publications, guided nine Ph.D. scholars, and currently supervises six Ph.D. candidates.