Professor of Chemistry
- Address:
- GCIS E103
- Phone:
- (773) 702-7256
- Email:
- svaikunt@uchicago.edu
- Visit the Group
- http://vaikuntanathan-group.uchicago.edu/index.html
Research
The Vaikuntanathan Group develops and uses tools of equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics to understand the behavior of complex systems in physical chemistry, soft condensed matter physics, and biophysics. Specific research interests include statistical mechanics of driven systems and self-assembly out of equilibrium, information processing and control in biology, and studies of aqueous fluctuations in heterogeneous environments with the goal of developing coarse grained models for efficient multiscale chemical and biophysical simulations.
Topics: Statistical Mechanics, Self-Assembly
News & Highlights
- W. M. Keck Research Grant on nonreciprocal interactions, July 14, 2026
- Vaikuntanathan Group Find Limits to Biophysical Processing Power, August 5, 2025
- 2022 JFI Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Winner Announced, August 30, 2022
- Suri Vaikuntanathan awarded Sloan Research Fellowship, February 21, 2017