Dr Sree Hari P. D. (academically, Sreehari Perumanath) obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK in 2020 with a fully funded international scholarship. Prior to this, he earned his M. Tech. in Thermal Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur (2015) and B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Calicut (2013). Following his graduate degrees, Dr Sree Hari trained as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh before winning the prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the UK to join the University of Warwick’s Mathematics Institute.
Stability of pathogens and vesicles
---> Flow-driven dissociation
---> Molecular mechanism of targeted drug delivery
Interfacial fluid flow and heat transfer
---> Droplet dynamics: coalescence, jumping
---> Wetting and contact line motion at nanoscale
---> Solid/liquid interfacial heat transfer
Simulation tools:
---> Molecular dynamics
---> Fluctuating hydrodynamics
2021 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Warwick Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, UK
2019 Best Presentation Award (PhD) Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK
2018 Best Poster Award (Academic) School of Engineering PG Research Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK
2016 International PhD Scholarship under a flagship £3.4M EPSRC programme grant School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK
Previous Courses
Jan-May, 2025, ME5107: Numerical Methods in Thermal Engineering
Perumanath, S., Pillai, R. & Borg, M. K. Contaminant Removal from Nature’s Self-Cleaning Surfaces. Nano Letters 23, 4234–4241 (2023). (Open Access). This article has achieved an Altmetric Attention Score of 159 placing it in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric and has been featured on popular online research-focussed publications including Modern Sciences, Phys.org, TechXplore etc. This publication has also led to Perumanath writing press articles for The Conversation and Technology Networks. Both University of Warwick and University of Edinburgh have issued their own press releases about this publication.
Perumanath, S., Borg, M. K., Chubynsky, M. V, Sprittles, J. E. & Reese, J. M. Droplet coalescence is initiated by thermal motion. Physical Review Letters 122, 104501 (2019). (Open Access) This article has an Altmetric Attention Score of 87 and has been featured on APS Physics, Phys.org, ScienceDaily, FYFD Blog (287,000+ followers), Azom.com etc.
Perumanath, S., Borg, M. K., Sprittles, J. E. & Enright, R. Molecular physics of jumping nanodroplets. Nanoscale 12, 20631-20637 (2020). (Open Access). This work was featured on the journal's front cover.
