Mamta Jotkar

I am a computational fluid dynamicist by background (Ph.D. 2016, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India in collaboration with ETSI Aeronáutica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering (2009, Mumbai University, India). Since my doctoral studies on the onset of laminar-turbulent transition in complex wall-bounded flows, I have been broadly working in the field of flow and transport in porous media. My current research interests tend to span across various disciplines including chemical engineering, environmental engineering, civil engineering, soft matter physics and microfluidics for biomedical applications.

I have been developing two lines of research. First, hydrodynamic instabilities that occur in porous media due to buoyancy or viscous effects coupled with chemical reactions, at different scales. Second, combining complex non-equilibrium phenomena involving colloids and flow and transport in porous media. Both these lines of work are driven by current challenges and knowledge gaps in the context of high-impact environmental technologies like carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), wastewater treatment, groundwater filtration and remediation, bioremediation, underground hydrogen storage, microfluidics for biomedical applications, just to name a few examples.