Vivek N. Prakash

About

Assistant Professor of Physics, Biology, Marine Biology & Ecology, University of Miami, FL, USA

Employment

• University of Miami Assistant Professor
  2020 - Present
• Stanford University Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  2014 - 2019

Education

• Universiteit Twente PhD Applied Physics
  2009 - 2013
• JNCASR MS (Engineering) Fluid Mechanics
  2007 - 2009
• RV College of Engineering BE Mechanical Engineering
  2003 - 2007

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (37)

• Kitchen Flows 2024: New research directions and culinary applications
  Physics of Fluids 2026 DOI: 10.1063/5.0337488
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• How Corals Stir Seawater
  Physics 2026 DOI: 10.1103/physics.19.76
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• Alkalinity-enhanced artificial substrates modulate local pH and increase survivorship of early-stage coral recruits
  Communications Earth & Environment 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-026-03414-1
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• Electrochemically induced alkalinity enhancement increases coral growth rates in the local microenvironment
  Coral Reefs 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s00338-025-02791-x
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• A crowd of marine embryos self-assembles into a living solid
  Nature Physics 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-026-03190-x
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• Glass-based physical models for tissue mechanics
  arXiv:2606.22281 2026 DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2606.22281
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• Alizarin Red perturbs skeletal patterning and biomineralization via catalase inhibition
  Development 2026 DOI: 10.1242/dev.205079
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• Alizarin red perturbs skeletal patterning and biomineralization via Catalase inhibition
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.03.663060
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• Quantifying Ciliary-Generated Traction Forces During Locomotion in a Simple Marine Animal’s Epithelial Tissues
  Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series 2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-85833-8_11
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• Confinement-induced proliferation of vortices around marine invertebrate larvae
  2025 DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2501.11744
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