• Hi!
    I am Jovina

About me

Hi. I am Jovina, a final-year undergraduate majoring in Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay. I want to become a professor owing to my undeterred interest in helping young brains unfold their true potential, and also to do what I love- research!

I live in two worlds. As a part of one, I have sat in the lab through sleepless nights, breaking my head to understand, execute and create. I have had long discussions with professors and labmates, and also hours of silent reflection, months of dry spells and dawns of little epiphanies. It is a rewarding world

My other world is the one of poetry. I love to write. You can find my work here-

http://littlethingsbyjovina.blogspot.com/

Similar to the world of research, even this one is a sine curve. Sometimes, words flow by effortlessly, and other times, I want to wave the flag of creative depletion.

During such low moments, be it in research or poetry, a responsibility higher than my own needs inspires me to continue. While research assures me that I am inching towards creating a societal impact, poetry soothes me with the consolation that somebody will find solace in my words, and in turn the strength to fight through miseries.

I have a deep reverence for art and whole heartedly appreciate classical dance forms. Other than this, speed-skating has been my source of thrill since childhood.

Work Experience

Modelling of the formation of gas phase ions in electrodynamic traps

Prof. Pratim Biswas| Washington University at St. Louis

Jan' 20-present

I have secured a position in the joint MS exchange programme between IIT Bombay and Washington University at St. Louis. I started with exploring levitation traps with time varying electric fields to trap particles in order to understand the mechanism of Rayleigh breakup. I reproduced on Matlab the oscillations these droplets undergo and after this, moved on to explore the fate of these particles from the moment they are sprayed from to nozzle to the moment they hit the ground electrode plate.

Shear and compression of complex liquid-liquid interfaces

Prof. Gerald Fuller| Stanford University

June' 19-July' 19

I have worked on the interfacial shear rheometer with an aim to figure out how interfacial rheology affects the tendency of spontaneous emulsification of water droplets in asphaltene solution. I also worked on the Langmuir trough to quantify the adsorption and desorption of proteins at the oil-water interface.

Fluidisation of Drug Particles

Prof. Partha Sarathi Goswami| IIT Bombay

May' 18-May' 19

I am working on the design of a dry powder inhaler in order to optimize drug particle fluidisation. My motive was to characterize the flow field of powder particles through image analysis and then with the help of Discrete Element Analysis, perform computational modelling to compare the experimental results with the ones obtained by simulations.

Polystyrene Particle Synthesis

Prof. Partha Sarathi Goswami| IIT Bombay

May' 18-May' 19

I have synthesised polystyrene particles by suspension polymerisation. I analyzed their average sizes and polydispersity.

Industrial Learning Program

Prof. Nitin Padhiyar| IIT Gandhinagar

Dec' 17-Jan' 18

I have performed simulations and graphical analysis on DWSIM for the esterification reaction which I scrutinized on a reactive distillation unit.

Nonlinear Dynamics

Summer of Science| IIT Bombay

May' 17-July' 17

I have performed qualitative graphical analysis of the dynamics of non-linear systems. I have analysed the stability and learnt to quantitatively measure the rate of decay to fixed points.

Digital Stop Watch

Prof. Subhananda Chakrabarti| IIT Bombay

Sept' 18-Nov' 18

I have made a digital stop watch to count till 5:00 mins using the concepts learnt in the introductory electrical circuits and electronics course. It was made using ICs and Logic Gates.

C-606, H10, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India