Uttam Kumar

I am a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. My research interests span a dynamic range including biophysics, fluid dynamics, mathematical modeling, nonlinear dynamics, and microfluidics. My Ph.D. thesis theoretically and computationally explores microbial interactions in the context of bacterial swarming, biofilm formation, and subdiffusive migration within porous media. Currently, I am studying interactions in multibacterial biofilms by considering mutualistic species, cheaters, and multiple nutrients. The focus here is on investigating coexistence dynamics under resource competition.