Ankur Gupta
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ankur.Gupta@colorado.edu
(303) 492-0046

Office: JSCBB D125

Education

  • BS, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi,  2012
  • MS, Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2014
  • PhD, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2017

Awards

  • Soft Matter Emerging Investigator, RSC Journals (2023)
  • Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Alumni Award, IIT Delhi (2022)
  • CU Next Award for Innovation in Teaching (2022)
  • ACS Petroleum Research Fund, Doctoral New Investigator (2022)
  • Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Riser (2022)
  • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Teaching Award (2022)
  • Publons Peer-review Award for placing in top 1% of reviewers (2018)
  • Hugh Hampton Young Fellow, MIT (2016-17)
  • Individual Citation Award for Teaching and Outreach, MIT (2017)
  • Dow Travel Award, 2016 Annual AIChE Meeting (2017)
  • Presidents' Gold Medal, IIT Delhi (2012)

Selected Publications

* denotes equal contribution

F. Henrique, P.J. Zuk, A. Gupta
Charging dynamics of electrical double layers inside a cylindrical pore: predicting the effects of arbitrary pore size
Soft Matter 18, 198 2022

A. Gupta, A. Govind Rajan, E. A. Carter, H.A. Stone, 
Ionic Layering and Overcharging in Electrical Double Layers in a Poisson-Boltzmann Model, 
Physical Review Letters, 18, 188004, 2020

A. Gupta, P. J. Zuk, H.A. Stone
Charging Dynamics of Overlapping Double Layers in a Cylindrical Nanopore
Physical Review Letters, 125, 076001, 2020

A. Gupta, S. Shim, H.A. Stone
Diusiophoresis: From Dilute to Concentrated electrolytes
Soft Matter, 16, 6975, 2020 (selected for front inside cover)

A. Gupta
Nanoemulsions, invited book chapter in Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications: Fundamental Concepts,
Biological Interactions and Clinical Applications 2020, edited by Eun Ji Chung, Lorraine Leon and Carlos Rinaldi, Elsevier publication

J.L. Wilson, S. Shim, E. Yu, A. Gupta, H.A. Stone
Diusiophoresis in Multivalent Electrolytes
Langmuir, 36, 7014, 2020

Research Interests

Interfaces, by definition, occur due to heterogeneity in physical systems, and thus result in unique properties and interactions. For instance, liquid-fluid interfaces tend to minimize interfacial area due to surface tension; liquid-fluid-solid interfaces give rise to wetting phenomena; and an electrical double layer forms when an electrolyte comes in contact with a charged surface. By invoking concepts from colloidal and multiphase fluid physics,  Laboratory of Interface, Flow and Electrokinetics (LIFE) investigates the systems dominated by interfacial phenomena using both experimental and computational approaches.

Specifically, LIFE focuses on (i) electrokinetics for energy and the environment, (ii) flow in porous media, and (iii) advanced nanoemulsions. The overarching goal of LIFE is to uncover the full potential of interfacial science to address societally relevant problems of energy storage, soil remediation, oil recovery, and rational formulation of pharmaceutical and food products. 

 

In the news

Ankur Gupta wins GOLD award from IIT Delhi

Nov. 8, 2022

After twice being nominated for the Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, the third time was the charm for Ankur Gupta. On Nov. 5, Gupta, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, received a 2022 Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) Award from his alma mater.

Ankur Gupta's LIFE lab wins $110,000 ACS PRF-DNI award

Nov. 7, 2022

Ankur Gupta, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, received an ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award (ACS PRF-DNI) for his proposal titled, “Nonequilibrium Analysis of Active Droplets Driven by Micellar Solubilization: Effect of In-Situ Change in Droplet Shape and Inter-Droplet Interactions.”

Filipe Henrique posing outside for a photo
Henrique earns Ryland Graduate Fellowship for supercapacitor research

Nov. 4, 2021

Filipe Henrique is this year’s recipient of the Dwight E. and Jessie D. Ryland Endowed Graduate Fellowship from the College of Engineering and Applied Science. This fellowship provides $10,000 over two years to a deserving first-year PhD student working in alternative energy or improved energy utilization and efficiency.