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Abhinendra Singh, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case School of Engineering

Teaching Information

Teaching Interests

My teaching philosophy emphasizes connecting fundamental polymer physics and statistical mechanics to modern engineering applications. I teach Physical Chemistry of Polymers (EMAC 402), where students develop a molecular-level understanding of polymer structure, dynamics, thermodynamics, and rheology. I have also launched a new elective, Computational and Numerical Methods in Soft Matter Systems (EMAC 473), which introduces students to scientific computing, numerical modeling, simulation techniques, and data-driven approaches for complex soft materials. Through these courses, students learn how fundamental theory, computation, and experiments work together to solve problems in materials science, biotechnology, energy, and manufacturing.

Research Information

Research Interests

Our research seeks to understand how microscopic interactions give rise to emergent structure, dynamics, and flow behavior in complex fluids and soft materials. We combine statistical mechanics, continuum modeling, particle-based simulations, machine learning, and data-driven approaches to study polymers, colloidal suspensions, active matter, granular materials, and biological soft matter. Our goal is to develop predictive frameworks that accelerate materials discovery, optimize processing, and enable next-generation functional materials.

Research Projects

  • Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of soft matter from polymers to suspensions to powers & pastes.
  • Machine learning and AI for complex-fluid characterization and materials discovery.
  • Rheology, microstructure evolution, and flow instabilities in polymeric and colloidal systems.
  • Simulation and theoretical modeling of self-assembly and emergent collective behavior.
  • Data-driven constitutive modeling for soft materials processing and manufacturing.
  • Physics-informed computational approaches for multiscale materials design.

Recent Funding

  1. NSF CAREER Award: Material design rules and predictive modeling of multiphase particulate systems
  2. ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award: Dynamics and flow of adhesive polydisperse suspensions in the presence of walls

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation Early Career Award
2026
National Science Foundation
Long-term Invited Visitor: KITP Program ``Soft Earth Geophysics”
2026
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics
Selected as an Early Career Rheologist: Rheologica Acta
2025
European Society of Rheology
Jackson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring (Nominated)
2025
Selected as Early-Career and Emerging Investigator
2025
The Journal of Physical Chemistry
Doctoral New Investigator Award: ACS Petroleum Research Fund
2024
American Chemical Society
Junior Discussion Leader for the Young Investigator Workshop
2024
International Soft Matter Conference
CWRU UCITE Learning Fellowship
2024
UCITE -- Case Western Reserve University
Best Presentation by a First Time Attendee
2023
Awarded at Viscoplastic Fluids (VPF9) Workshop
Selected as Early Career Materials Researcher
2023
Material Research Society
The Maria Lastra Postdoctoral Excellence in Mentoring Award
2021
University of Chicago
Society of Rheology Publication Award
2020
Society of Rheology
Best Presentation by a Young Scientist
2020
Physics of Dense Suspensions virtual symposium

Professional Memberships

American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Society of Rheology

External Appointments

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (by courtesy)

Publications

 Since joining CWRU

In reverse chronological order: * denotes Singh as corresponding author, "g" denotes graduate student, "u" denotes undergraduate student, and , "p" denotes postdoctoral traniee.

  1. Ayar O.g; Siddani B. S.; Srivastava I.; Singh A.*, Recent Modeling Advances in Dense Suspension Rheology, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2026, 102042, (Invited).
  2. Singh A.*; Kim H.; Morris J.F.; Jaeger H.M., Jamming and Yielding in Dense Suspensions, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2026, 17, 157-178
  3. Sharma S.p; Sharma A.; Singh, A.*, Frictional Contact Network in Dense Suspension Flow, Newton, 2026, 2, 100377. 
  4. Clavaud C.; Singh A.*, Quick starch guide: A perspective on shear thickening in dense non- Brownian suspensions, Rheologica Acta, Special Early Career Issue on Trends and Progress in Rheology, 2025, 64, 563–582, (Invited)
  5. Aminimajd A.g; Maia J.; Singh A.*, Robust Prediction of Frictional Contact Network in Near- Jamming Suspensions Employing Deep Graph Neural Networks, Physics of Fluids, 2025, 37, 073306
  6. D’Amico A.u; Tu S.p; Singh, A.*, Topological insights into dense frictional suspension rheology: Third-order loops drive discontinuous shear thickening, Journal of Chemical Physics, 2025, 162, 214906, Emerging investigator special issue (Invited), 
  7. Aminimajd A.g; Maia J.; Singh, A.*, Scalability of Graph Neural Network in Accurate Prediction of Frictional Contact Network in Suspensions, Soft Matter, 2025, 21, 2826-2835.
  8. Ramakrishnan, S.; Oriani, S.; Singh, A.; Chen, H.; Sundararaj, U. Understanding the rheological properties of deformable polymer particle suspension in the melt state, Rheologica Acta 2024, 1-16.
  9. Singh, A.*; Ness, C.; de Pablo, J.J.; Jaeger, H.M. Rheology of bidisperse non-Brownian suspensions, Physical Review E, 2024, 110, 034901
  10. Naald, M.v.; Singh, A.*; Eid, T.; Tang, K., de Pablo, J.J.; Jaeger, H.M. Minimally Rigid Clusters in Dense Suspension Flow, Nature Physics, 2024, 1-7
  11. Wincox, K.G.; Grinevich, A.; Linscott, A.; Singh, A.; Morozova, .S. Properties of Crosslinked Poly-L-Lysine Hydrogels Across the Random Coil-Helix Transition, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2023, 224(24), 2300227
  12. Singh, A.* Hidden hierarchy in the rheology of dense suspensions, MRS Communications, 2023, 13, 971–979, Early Career Materials Researcher Prospective (Invited), Cover of the Issue. Highlighted by the journal on social media.

Education

Master of Science
Physics
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India
2009
PhD
Mechanical Engineering
Universiteit Twente (UT), The Netherlands
2014