1. Sriram Rajagopal Ramaswamy was born on 10 November 1957 and is an Indian physicist.
10 Facts About Sriram Ramaswamy
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Sriram Ramaswamy is a professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and previously the director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences in Hyderabad.
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Sriram Ramaswamy completed his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1983.
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Sriram Ramaswamy completed postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Sriram Ramaswamy is a theoretician whose research investigates nonequilibrium statistical physics, soft matter, condensed matter physics and biological physics.
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Sriram Ramaswamy's research helped found the field of active matter, which studies the motility and related collective behaviour of objects that convert local energy input into autonomous motion.
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Sriram Ramaswamy is widely known for formulating the hydrodynamic equations governing the alignment, flow, mechanics and statistical properties of suspensions of self-propelled creatures, on scales from a cell to the ocean.
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Sriram Ramaswamy served on the Physical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2014.
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Sriram Ramaswamy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016.
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Sriram Ramaswamy was awarded one of the H K Firodia awards for 2016.