Sankara Arunachalam, Marcus Lin and Dan Daniel 'Probing the physical origins of droplet friction using a critically damped cantilever' Soft Matter, 2024, 20, 7583. (Journal cover).

Sankara Arunachalam, Zain Ahmad, Ratul Das, Himanshu Mishra, 'Counterintuitive Wetting Transitions in Doubly Reentrant Cavities as a Function of Surface Make‐Up, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Cavity Aspect Ratio' Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2020, 7 (22), 2001268. (Journal cover)

Eddy Domingues^#, Sankara Arunachalam^#, Jamilya Nauruzbayeva, Himanshu Mishra' Biomimetic coating-free surfaces for long-term entrapment of air under wetting liquids' Nature Communications, 9 (1), 3606, (2018). (# Equal contribution)

Silvestre Roberto, Nguyen Dang Minh, Sankara Arunachalam, Eddy Domingues, Claus-Dieter Ohl, Himanshu Mishra 'Mitigating cavitation erosion using biomimetic gas-entrapping microtextured surfaces' Science Advances, 2020, 6 (13), eaax6192.

Ph.D., Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 2023

M.Eng., Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, 2011

B.E., Aeronautical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India, 2009

Post-doctoral fellow, SuPER lab, KAUST, 2025-Present

Post-doctoral fellow, Droplet lab, KAUST, 2023-2025

Research Specialist, Interfacial lab, KAUST, 2015-2020                                                                                                                                                                                                  

R & D Engineer, BEML Ltd, India, 2011-2015

Dean’s award for outstanding academic performance in my Ph.D. program at KAUST

Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE)