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.
Session Chair
- ChemMeet, IITJodhpur, Jodhpur, October 2024.
- Liquid Matter Conference, Mainz, Germany, September 2024.
- CompFlu 2018, IIIT Roorkee, December, 2018.
Invited lectures, presentation
- CECAM, Mainz, Germany, September 2024.
- Biomembrane, IISc Bangalore, July 2024.
- Mini-symposium on "From Fundamental Biophysics to Drug Discovery", IITJodhpur, March 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.