Education
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
MSc., Physics, University of Rajasthan
Courses Taught
Research Interests:
Selected Research Articles
1. "Microfluidic Well Plates Integrated with Passive Nematode Culture Chambers for Multiplexed Chemical Toxicity Assays in C. elegans", Bushra Rahman, Purushottam Soni, Atiyya Saroyia, William Schenkenfelder, and Siva Vanapalli, Lab on a Chip, Accepted, 2025
2. "Dimensionless numbers defining the onset of dispersed phase flow transitions in microfluidic flow-focusing devices", Varun Potdar, Purushottam Soni, JiHye Kim, Michael Boehm, Stefan Baier, Siva A Vanapalli, Physics of Fluids, 37, 4, 2025.
3. "Spaceflight Induces Strength Decline in Caenorhabditis elegans", Purushottam Soni, Hunter Edwards, Taslim Anupom, Mizanur Rahman, Leila Lesanpezeshki, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Henry Cope, Nima Gharahdaghi, Daniel Scott, Li Shean Toh, Philip M. Williams, Timothy Etheridge, Nathaniel Szewczyk, Craig R. G. Willis, and Siva A. Vanapalli, cells, 12, 2470, 2023.
4. "Microfluidics-integrated space flight hardware for measuring muscle strength of C. elegans on the International Space Station", Purushottam Soni, Taslim Anupom, Leila Lesanpezeshki, Mizanur Rahman, Jennifer Hewitt, Matthew Vellone, Louis Stodieck, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Nathaniel Szewczyk, Siva A Vanapalli, npj microgravity, 8, 50, 2022.
5. "Electrohydrodynamics of a concentric compound drop in an AC electric field", Purushottam Soni, Rochish M Thaokar, Vinay A Juvekar, Physics of Fluids, 30, 3, 2018
