Education

• Ph.D. in Physics. Boston University, 1993.
• M. A. in Physics. Boston University, 1989.
• M. Sc. in Physics. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1986.
• B. Sc. in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Bangalore University, 1984

Research Interests

Slow dynamics in super cooled liquids and glass transition; Metastable liquids; Phase transitions and kinetics of phase transformation; Statistical geometry; Anomalous thermodynamic and dynamic properties of water and other network forming liquids;
Statistical mechanics of biomolecular systems.

Selected Publications

• "Vitrification of a monoatomic metallic liquid", M. H. Bhat, V. Molinero, E. Soignard, V. C. Solomon, S. Sastry, J. L. Yarger and C. A. Angell, Nature, 448, 787, 2007.
• "Metal turned to glass", M. H. Bhat, V. Molinero, E. Soignard, V. C. Solomon, S. Sastry, J. L. Yarger and C. A. Angell, (News and Views)  Nature, 448, 758, 2007.
• "Maximum valency lattice gas models", Srikanth Sastry, Emilia La Nave and Francesco Sciortino. J. Stat. Mech., P12010, 2006. cond-mat/0609388
• "Tuning of Tetrahedrality in a Silicon Potential Yields a Series of Monatomic (Metal-like) Glass Formers of Very High Fragility", Europhys. Lett., 75(6), 922, 2006. cond-mat/0512728.
• "Protein glass transition and liquid-liquid critical point of water", P. Kumar, L. Xu, Z. Yan, M. G. Mazza, S. V. Buldyrev, S. H. Chen, S. Sastry, H. E. Stanley. Phys. Rev. Lett., 97, 177802, 2006.cond-mat/0603557.