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DrE. K P ZuhailAssistant Professor Phone (Off): Phone (Res): Mobile: Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Academic
PhD Physics University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA. Thesis title: “Topological Defects Transformation and Structural Transition of Two Dimensional Colloidal Crystals across Nematic to Smectic-A Phase transition” Research Adviser: Prof. Surajit Dhara. MSc. Physics, April 2012 University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA. CGPA: 8.3 Specialization: Condensed matter physics BSc. Physics, March 2010 M.A.M.O. College (Calicut University), Manassery, Calicut, Kerala, INDIA Percentage: 80.4 % Subjects: Physics, Mathematics and Computer Application
Publications
Journal Papers
1. Topological defect transformation and structural transition of two-dimensional colloidal crystals across the nematic to smectic-A phase transition K. P. Zuhail, P. Sathyanarayana, D. Seč, S. Čopar, M. Škarabot, Muševič and S. Dhara Published: Physical Review E 91, 030501(R) (2015) http://journals.aps.org/pre/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.030501 2.Temperature dependence of equilibrium separation and lattice parameter s of nematic boojum-colloids K. P. Zuhail and Surajit Dhara Published: Applied Physics Letters 106, 211901 (2015) http://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.4921634 3. Spherical microparticles with Saturn ring defects and their self-assemb ly across the nematic to smectic-A phase transition K. P. Zuhail, S. Čopar, M. Škarabot, Muševič and Surajit Dhara Published: Physical Review E 92, 052501 (2015) http://journals.aps.org/pre/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.052501 4.Discontinuous anchoring transition and photothermal switching in composites of liquid crystals and conducting polymer nanofibers M. V. Rasna, K. P. Zuhail, R. Manda, P. Paik, W. Haase, and Surajit Dhara Published: Physical Review E 89, 052503 (2014) http://journals.aps.org/pre/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.052503 5. Structure–property correlation of bicyclohexane nematic liquid crystals D. Venkata Sai, K. P. Zuhail, Rudraditya Sarkar and Surajit Dhara Published: Liquid Crystals 42, 328 (2015) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02678292.2014.987708?nee dAccess=true 6. Orientation, interaction and laser assisted self-assembly of organic single-crystal micro-sheets in a nematic liquid crystal M. V. Rasna, K. P. Zuhail, U. Ramudu, R. Chandrasekar and Surajit Dhara Published: Soft Matter 11, 7674 (2015) http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/SM/C5SM01991E 7. Effect of temperature and electric field on 2D nematic colloidal crystals stablised by vortex-like topological defects K. P. Zuhail and Surajit Dhara Published: Soft Matter 12, 6812(2016). http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/SM/C6SM01244B 8. Dynamics of electro-orientation of birefringent microsheets in isotropic and nematic liquid crystals M. V. Rasna, K. P. Zuhail, U. Ramudu, R. Chandrasekar and Surajit Dhara Published: Physical Review E 94, 032701 (2016). https://journals.aps.org/pre/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.032701 9. N-SmA-Smc phase transitions probed by a pair of elastically bound colloids Muhammed Rasi M., Zuhail K.P., Arun Roy and Surajit Dhara Published: Physical Review E 97, 032702 (2018) https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.032702 10. Effect of phase transitions on liquid crystal colloids: A short review Zuhail K. P., Matjaz Humar and Surajit Dhara Liquid Crystals Reviews 8, 1(2020) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21680396.2021.1904298?journalCode=tlcr20 11. Vector beams generated by microlasers based on topological liquid-crystal structures Miha Papic, Urban Mur, Kottoli Poyil Zuhail, Miha Ravnik, Igor Musevic, and Matjaz Humar Communicated
Teaching/Postdoc Experience
• Working as a post-doctoral research assistant at Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia from 25/02/2020 onward (1 year) • Worked as an Ad-hoc faculty in Department of Physics, NIT Calicut from 24/07/2019 to 20/02/2020 (7 months) Classes engaged BTech Engineering Physics 5th Semester – Applied Quantum Mechanics MSc Physics 3rd semester – Optics Lab BTech Engineering Physics 3rd Semester – Electromagnetic Theory II BTech first year – Common Physics theory and lab • Worked as an Assistant Professor (FIP substitute), PG & Research Dept. of Physics, Farook College, Calicut, Kerala from 01/08/2017 to 23/07/2019 (2 years) Classes engaged BSc 5th Semester - Electronics BSc 6th Semester - Nuclear and Particle Physics MSc 1st Semester - Electronics MSc 3rd Semester - Nuclear and Particle Physics MSc 4th Semester - Microprocessor and Applications • Teaching assistance for graduate and under graduate courses at the PhD tenure. Classes engaged Classical mechanics (Theory) Probes in Condensed Matter Physics (Theory) Nuclear Physics (Theory) Solid state physics (Laboratory) Entrusted academic/administrative responsibilities during teaching period at Farook College 1. NET-JRF coordinator for last two years 2. Convenor of the science week celebrations, 08-09 November 2017 3. Convenor of SCULPTING LIGHT (A workshop on Laser Holography and applications), 27-28 February 2018 4. Member of the organising committee of NWAA-2018, 14-15 February 2018 5. Convenor of NSAA 2018, 22-23 November 2018. Conferences and Workshops Attended International: 1. 6th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics (WLCP- 2016), Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia - September 2016, Poster presentation. 2. International Complex Fluids Conferences (Comp-Flu) at IIIT Hyderbad - December 2016, Poster presentation. 3. International Complex Fluids Conferences (Comp-Flu) at IISER Pune, Pune - January 2016, Poster presentation. National and other conferences: 4. 23rd National conference on Liquid Crystals at IIT-ISM Dhanbad - December 2016, Poster presentation. 5. Soft matter Young Investigators Meet (SMYIM-15) organised by IIT Madras and Indian Mathematical Institute - December 2015, Poster presentation. Best poster award. 6. Attended 22nd National conference on Liquid Crystals at Dehradun Institute of Technology (DIT), Dehradun - December 2015, Oral presentation. 7. Workshop on soft matter self-assembly and dynamics, UoH, Hyderabad - 2014. 8. 20th National conference on Liquid Crystals at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal - November 2013. Career Achievements ◦ Qualified Junior research fellowship and lectureship conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and University Grants Commission (CSIR UGC), Government of India - in 2012. ◦ DST Travel grant for attending 6th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics (WLCP- 2016), Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia - September 2016. ◦ Principal investigator for the research project “N1-0116 Liquid Crystal droplet lasers for intracellular sensors” by Slovenian research agency (ARRS) for a coast of 1.5 Cr. ◦ Received excellence certificate for the research proposal submitted to Marie Sklodowska Curie actions by European commission.
Research Interests and Activities
My research interests lie in the field of Soft matter Physics; mainly on colloids and liquid crystals. In my Ph.D., I have studied the colloids in liquid crystal and associated topological defects formation, their interaction and defect transformation across nematic to smectic-A phase transition. I studied the laser assisted assembly and self-assembly of two dimensional colloidal crystal and their structural transition driven by temperature as well as electric field. I have also explored the shape anisotropic colloids (microsheets) in liquid crystal, their interaction, self-assembly and electric field driven dyanamicswith my fellow lab mates. I am very interested in biological materials, defect dynamics of liquid crystals and microemulsions. In the post-doctoral research, I am working with Liquid crystal droplet lasers and trying to incorporate in an intra-cellular medium. I have gained ample experience in establishing laboratory, building laser tweezer, video and image analysis using various softwares. I also gained experience in creating microdroplets of liquid crystal in polymers. I have automated experimental setup using LABVIEW software
Technical Skills
Experimental • Liquid crystal cell preparation • Optical Tweezers. • Microrheology (Video microscopy) • Microemulsion Softwares • LATEX, OriginPro, Particle tracker, Image J, Microsoft Word and Powerpoint. • Have a good command over different operating systems like Windows and Linux.
