Professional Experience

  • 2023-current: Professor
    IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
  • 2019-2023: Associate Professor
    IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
  • 2013-2019: Assistant Professor
    IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
  • 2013: Post Doctoral Fellow
    Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 2009–2012: Post Doctoral Fellow
    Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany.
  • 2007–2009: Post Doctoral Research Associate
    Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, India.
    • Education

  • 2001-2007: Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore, India.
    Thesis Advisor: Prof. K. L. Sebastian
    Thesis Title: Dynamics of Activated Processes involving Chain Molecules.
  • 1999–2001: M.Sc
    University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
    Physical Chemistry Specilization
  • 1996-1999: B.Sc
    Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata, India.
    Honours in Chemistry with Physics and Mathematics as minors
    • Awards and Fellowships

  • Max Planck Institute Fellowship, Max Planck Society, Germany (2009-2012).
  • Vasudevamurthy-Soundararajan Prize, IPC, IISc, Bangalore (2001-02).
  • CSIR Fellowship 2001, GATE 2001.
  • National Merit Scholarship.
    • Recognitions

  • Review Editor in Frontiers in speciality section of BioPhysics
  • Active referee in journals JMBi, PCCP, Langmuir, AIP advances, Scientific Reports, JCTC, Soft Matter, JCP, RSC advances
    • Research funding

  • Science and Engineering Research Board, CRG, Government of India 2020-23.
  • Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, Government of India 2014-17.
  • IITJodhpur, Seed grant.
    • Invited lectures

  • Biomembrane, IISc Bangalore, July 2024.
  • CECAM, JNCASR, Feb 2024.
  • TCS2023, IIT Madas, Dec 2023.
  • 9IDMRCS, Chiba, Japan, August 2023.
  • NSM Workshop, IISc, July 2023.
  • Physical Chemistry Symposium, IPC, IISc, July 2023.
  • Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS), IIT Guwahati, December 2022.
  • Open symposium on National Science Day, BITS Pilani, March, 2022.
  • CompFlu 2021, IIT Gandhinagar, December, 2021.
  • PCPB organized by IIT Tirupati, IIT Bombay on online mode, September 2021.
  • ISCSM 2020, IISER Pune, February 2020.
  • CompFlu 2019, IISER Bhopal, December, 2019.
  • North West Meeting on Spectroscopy Structure and Dynamics, IIT Roorkee, April, 2019.
  • TCS 2018, BITS Pilani, February, 2019.
  • CompFlu 2018, IIIT Roorkee, December, 2018.
  • North West Meeting on Spectroscopy Structure and Dynamics, MNIT Jaipur, March, 2018.
  • CompFlu 2016, IIIT Hyderabad, December, 2016.
  • TCS 2016, University of Hyderabad, December, 2016.
  • Soft Matter YIM 2014, Pondicherry, December, 2014.
    • Oral Presentations

  • Institutsseminar Kleinwalsertal March, 2013.
  • American Chemical Society, Fall Meeting, Philadelphia, August, 2012.
    • Participation in Conferences and Symposia

  • Frontiers in Biomolecular Simulation, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, January, 2012.
  • Mainz Materials Simulation Days 2011, Mainz, Germany, May, 2011.
  • International Workshop on Coarse-Grained Biomolecular Modeling, Levi, Finland, March, 2010.
  • MolSim 2010, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January, 2010.
  • Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, January, 2009.
  • Bangalore Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting, Bangalore, India, April 2008.
  • Biomolecular simulation, JNCASR, Bangalore, India, November, 2007
  • Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 2006.
  • In-House Symposium, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, 2006.
  • Discussion Meeting on Advances in Spectroscopy, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, February, 2005.
  • Indo-Japan Students Symposium, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, February, 2005.
  • DAE-BRNS Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre , Mumbai, India, December, 2004.
  • Indo-French Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, October 25-27, 2004.
  • The 22nd International conference on Statistical Physics, STATPHYS 22, of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 4-9, 2004
  • Molecules, Machines and Networks, National Center for Biological Sciences , 2004.
  • In-House Symposium, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, 2003.
  • In-House Symposium, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, 2002.