Prof. Amit Agrawal joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in 2004 and is currently an Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Dean of International Relations, IIT Bombay. His research interests are in Micro-scale flows, Development of novel bio-microdevices, Theoretical fluid mechanics, and Turbulent flows. He has graduated 32 PhDs and advised several postdocs and Master’s students on these and related topics.  He has published more than 260 journal articles and authored a dozen patents with his students. His primary contributions are in the development of a unique blood plasma separation microdevice and derivation of equations which (he believes) are more general than the Navier-Stokes equations. A technique for processing data in turbulent flows is sometimes referred to as Agrawal Decomposition. In the challenging time of COVID-19 pandemic, he studied the transmission of the coronavirus. The insights and novel results on disease transmission are documented as 8 Featured Articles in prestigious journal Physics of Fluids; these articles have been downloaded more than 145,000 times and covered by more than 50 news outlets worldwide.

Prof. Agrawal has authored a well-received book entitled Microscale Flow and Heat Transfer: Mathematical Modelling and Flow Physics. The work from his lab has appeared on the cover page of prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanicsand Physics of Fluids. He has served as Editor of several international journals, and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of ‘Transactions of INAE’. He is an elected Fellow of the prestigious Indian National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. He has been bestowed with several important recognitions including the country’s highest scientific honor – the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizefor his seminal contributions.