ICTS

Education

• BTech Chemical Engineering, IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Delhi (in 2022 won the Distinguished Alum Award of IIT Delhi)
• PhD Aerospace Engineering, IISc (Indian Institute of Science) Bengaluru (in 2017 won the Platinum Jubilee Prize of this Department)
• Postdoctoral Fellow Caltech (California Institute of Technology).

Employment before TIFR 

• Scientist, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru
• Faculty member, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru

Research interests

Fluid Dynamics, with emphasis on geophysical flows

Some recent publications

• Flows with varying viscosity. Ritabrata Thakur, Arjun Sharma, Sharath Jose & Rama Govindarajan. Reviews of Modern Physics, 2026, under revision
• Active caustics. Rahul Chajwa, C Rajarshi, Rama Govindarajan and Sriram Ramaswamy, Physical Review Fluids, 11, 033104 arXiv:2310.01829, 2026. Editors’ suggestion
• Spatially inhomogeneous phase change and its effect on cloud turbulence. Nikitabahen N. Makwana, Bipin Kumar, Yogesh Prasaad M. Sethuraman & Rama Govindarajan. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, 22, doi: 10.1029/2025GL117378, 2025
• Sedimentation dynamics of bodies with two planes of symmetry. Harshit Joshi & Rama Govindarajan. Physical Review Letters, 134, 014002, 2025
• Dynamics and clustering of sedimenting disc lattices. Harshit Joshi, Rahul Chajwa, Sriram Ramaswamy, Narayanan Menon, Rama Govindarajan, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1017, A1, 2025
• Sedimentation and shear-induced dynamics of spheroids in fluids with spatial viscosity variations. Arjun Sharma, Peter Bosler, Rama Govindarajan & Donald Koch, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1007, A53, doi:10.1017/jfm.2025.104, 2025
• Emergence of capillary waves in miscible co-flowing fluids. A Carbonaro, G Savorana, L Cipelletti, Rama Govindarajan & D Truzzolillo, Physical Review Letters, 134, 05400, arXiv:2409.17333, 2025