Dr. Parthasakha Partho Neogi is a Professor in the department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Missouri S&T. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Neogi's Research Statement: The area of research is interfacial phenomena with emphasis on non-equilibrium effects. Fluid mechanics of a liquid displacing another fluid on a solid surface (“wetting kinetics”) shows that all stresses are infinite at the contact line. Removal of this singularity requires the use of a reasonable slip velocity and slip velocity has been used to obtain the rates of movement of the leading edge (“contact line”) in a variety of problems over years. These cases where the liquid spreads on its own, and at very low speeds, are called spontaneous spreading.  At present time the case of forced spreading is being analyzed. Another area of research is that of mass transfer in surfactant systems. Typical one key component of detergency is that of solubilization where water insoluble oils are included into the surfactant micelles. Investigations into kinetics of solubilization also takes one into the kinetics of the contact line above.