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Education

• Ph.D in Chemical Engineering, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA, 2022
• B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, 2015

Work experience

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• June 2024: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Indore
• Mar 2022 - May 2024: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in St. Louis, USA // Postdoctoral Advisor: Prof. Rohit V. Pappu

Research Interests

• Polymer Physics of associative proteins and RNA
• Computational enzyme design
• Systems Biology
• Phase separation coupled to reactions

Publications

Solutes unmask differences in clustering versus phase separation of FET proteins

**Kar, M., Vogel, L. T., Chauhan, G., Felekyan, S., Ausserwöger, H., Welsh, T. J., ... & Pappu, R. V. (2024). Solutes unmask differences in clustering versus phase separation of FET proteins. Nature communications, 15(1), 4408.**

Crowder titrations enable the quantification of driving forces for macromolecular phase separation

**Chauhan, G., Bremer, A., Dar, F., Mittag, T., & Pappu, R. V. (2024). Crowder titrations enable the quantification of driving forces for macromolecular phase separation. Biophysical Journal, 123(11), 1376-1392.**

Adsorption of semiflexible polymers in crowded environments.

Chauhan, G., Simpson, M. L., & Abel, S. M. (2021). Adsorption of semiflexible polymers in crowded environments. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 155(3).

Crowding-induced interactions of ring polymers

Chauhan, G., Simpson, M. L., & Abel, S. M. (2021). Crowding-induced interactions of ring polymers. Soft Matter, 17(1), 16-23.

Talks

Teaching

Instructor, Introduction to Soft Matter and Polymers

Primary Instructor, Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

Service and leadership