Love Grover

Education

• PhD, Physics, IISER Mohaliexpected 2026 Dec
  Thesis: Nonequilibrium Organization and Fluctuations in Active Interfaces and Polymers. Advisor: Prof. Abhishek Chaudhuri. Status: thesis submitted, under external review; viva voce forthcoming.
• BS-MS, Physics, IISER Mohali2011–2016

Research interests

• Active matter and self-propelled particles
• Statistical mechanics of soft & biological matter
• Semiflexible polymers and active fluctuations
• Fluctuating interfaces (KPZ, Edwards–Wilkinson) and active forces

Research experience

• Active baths and time-correlated noise
  Implemented a discrete-time Ornstein–Uhlenbeck active-noise module for LAMMPS; showed that an active bath couples selectively to the polymer modes whose relaxation times match the bath correlation time
• Active particles on fluctuating interfaces
  A two-way feedback in which particles deform the interface while its shape steers their motion, producing activity-driven spatial organization (Phys. Rev. E 2025)
• Non-equilibrium interface growth
  Monte Carlo studies of dynamic roughening in the KPZ and Edwards–Wilkinson classes
• Biological membranes
  A minimal statistical model of membranes with several protein species, studied by Monte Carlo

Publications

1. Spectral Signatures of Active Fluctuations in Semiflexible Polymers. L. Grover, A. K. Dasanna, A. Chaudhuri. arXiv:2604.10168 (2026).
2. Spatial organization of multiple species of active particles interacting with an interface. L. Grover, R. Kapri, A. Chaudhuri. Physical Review E 111, 045412 (2025).

Methods

• Theory
  Statistical mechanics, stochastic processes (Itô calculus, Ornstein–Uhlenbeck and telegraphic noise), Langevin and Brownian dynamics
• Simulation
  LAMMPS (custom modules), Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics, HPC
• Computing
  Python, Fortran 90, Linux, Git

Teaching

• Teaching assistant, IISER Mohali2017–2020
  Optics, Condensed Matter, Advanced Optics/Spectroscopy and Modern Physics laboratories
• Undergraduate mentor, IISER Mohali2019
  Summer students on Vicsek-model simulations of collective motion

Conferences & schools

• Poster, 12th International Conference on Biological Physics (ICBP 2026)2026
  Genova, Italy
• Poster, STATPHYS-Kolkata XIII2026
  IISER Kolkata
• Bangalore School on Statistical Physics XVI2025
  ICTS Bengaluru

Fellowships

• Institute Doctoral Fellowship, IISER Mohali2017–2022
• IISER BS-MS Fellowship2011–2016