Gaurav Goel

Education

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, USA (2009)
• B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2004)

• Postdoctoral Associate, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (2009 – 2011)
• Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin (2009)
• Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin (2005 – 2006)

• Fellowship for outstanding international graduate student in the department of Chemical Engineering at UT-Austin
• Total Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship
• Member of American Physics Society, and The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

• Transport at nanoscale
• Structure-property relations in soft condensed-matter fluids
• Solvophobic interactions and self-assembly

• A molecular dynamics study on understanding the isotopic effect on tracer diffusion in silicate melts, G. Goel, D. J. Lacks, and J. A. Van Orman, in preparation.
• Isotopic and elemental fractionation by thermal diffusion in silicate melts at mantle temperatures and pressures, G. Goel, D. J. Lacks, and J. A. Van Orman, in preparation.
• Transport coefficients in silicate melts from structural data via a structurethermodynamics-dynamics relationship, G. Goel, D. J. Lacks, and J. A. Van Orman, Phys. Rev. E. (in review)
• Available states and available space: Static properties that predict dynamics of confined fluids, Goel et al., J. Stat. Mech.: Theory and Experiment, P04006 (2009).
• Tuning density profiles and mobility of inhomogeneous fluids, Goel et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 106001 (2008)