Ankur Gupta receives prestigious 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship
Assistant Professor Ankur Gupta has been named the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship, a prestigious award recognizing outstanding early-career researchers in the field.ÌýThe honor is awarded by the Soft Matter editorial board to an early-career scientist who has made significant contributions to soft matter research, selected from a pool of nominees put forward by the scientific community.
Soft matter is a branch of physics and materials science that studies materials that are easily deformed by external forces — typically lying between solid and liquid states.
Gupta is the principal director of the Laboratory of Interfaces, Flow, and Electrokinetics (LIFE) in Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,Ìýwhere a team employs theoretical, numerical and experimental methods to study transport phenomena in electrochemical, microfluidic and biophysical systems.
Gupta’s contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Chemical & Engineering News Talented 12, Johannes Lyklema Early Career Award in Electrokinetics, Air Force Young Investigator Award, AIChE 35 Under 35, Dream Chemistry Lecture, NSF CAREER Award, Soft Matter Emerging Investigator Award and the Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award from IIT Delhi.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is one of only two institutions — along with MIT — to have two recipients of the Soft Matter Lectureship. Professor Tim White received the honor in 2019.