Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Theoretical Biophysics

Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Max-von-Laue-Straße 3

60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Advisor: Prof. Gerhard Hummer (group homepage)

Research experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate (August 2021 - May 2024)

Center for Theoretical Chemistry

Ruhr University Bochum

44780 Bochum, Germany

Advisor: Prof. Lars Schäfer (group homepage)

Research Associate (July 2020 - July 2021)

Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit

Indian Institute of Science

C. V. Raman Avenue, 560012 Bangalore

Karnataka, India

Advisor: Prof. Biman Bagchi (group homepage)

Teaching experience

Teaching Assistant

Course: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Instructors: Prof. Govardhan Reddy and Prof. Binny J. Cherayil, IISc

Indian Institute of Science, India

Course: Introduction to Basic Statistical Mechanics

Instructor: Prof. Biman Bagchi, SSCU, IISc

NPTEL, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras

Technical experience

System Administrator for HPC Cluster (IBM), SSCU, IISc

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (2015-2020)

Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit

Indian Institute of Science

C. V. Raman Avenue, 560012 Bangalore

Karnataka, India

Advisor: Prof. Biman Bagchi (group homepage)

Thesis: Structure, Thermodynamics and Dynamics in Complex Systems: From Stability of Biomolecules to Phase Transitions in Polymorphic Ice

Master of Science (M.Sc.) (2013-2015)

Department of Chemistry

Jadavpur University

700032 Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Specialization: Physical Chemistry

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (2010-2013)

Department of Chemistry

Jadavpur University

700032 Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Honors/Major: Chemistry

• Programming & scripting: FORTRAN, Bash, Python

• Operating systems: Windows, Linux

• Scientific softwares: GROMACS, LAMMPS, Plumed, Gaussian, VMD, Pymol, Chimera

• Graph plotting tools: xmgrace, gnuplot, origin, matplotlib

• Text and image processing: Latex, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

• Simulation techniques: Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, Cellular automata

• Statistical mechanics

• Biomolecular hydration

• Structure & dynamics of biomolecules

• Liquid liquid phase separation (LLPS) of proteins

• Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDP)

• Liquid state properties

• Phase transitions

Awards

• Best Poster Award, Computer Simulation and Theory of Macromolecules, Hünfeld, Germany, 2022

• Best Poster Award, Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India, 2019

• Best Poster Award, SSCU Unit Day, IISc, Bengaluru, India, 2019

• Best Oral Presentation Award, SSCU Unit Day, IISc, Bengaluru, India, 2018

Fellowships

• FP-RESOMUS Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021

• INSPIRE Research Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, India, 2015

• Lecturership (LS), CSIR-UGC, India, 2014

• INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education, Department of Science and Technology, India, 2010

1. BPS Virtual Networking Event: Biophysics of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation | Online | 2024

2. Les Houches - TSRC Protein Dynamics Workshop | Les Houches, France | 2024

3. Computer Simulation and Theory of Macromolecules | Hünfeld, Germany | 2024 

4. Bunsen-Tagung-2024 | RWTH Aachen, Germany | 2024 

5. CMWS Water days | DESY Hamburg, Germany | 2024 

6. Physical Chemistry Symposium 2023 (Society of Physical Chemistry) | IIT Kanpur, India | 2023 | Invited

7. CECAM Mixed-gen Season 2 – Session 6 Simulating Biological Systems | Online | 2022 (watch here)

8. RESOLV ECR workshop | RUB, Germany | 2022  

9. Theoretical Chemistry Symposium | RUB, Germany | 2022 | Invited

10. Indo-Japan Meeting | SSCU, IISc, India | 2018 

11. SSCU Unit Day Symposium | SSCU, IISc, India | 2018 | Best oral pr. 

1. RESOLV Klausurtagung | Germany | 2024

2. Structure and Dynamics of Chemical and Biological Systems | IIT Kanpur, India | 2023 

3. EBSA Congress 2023 | Stockholm, Sweden | 2023 | Poster

4. Computer Simulation and Theory of Macromolecules | Hünfeld, Germany | 2023 

5. RESOLV Klausurtagung | Germany | 2023 

6. RESOLV Klausurtagung | Germany | 2022 

7. Les Houches Protein Dynamics Workshop | Aussois, France | 2022

8. Computer Simulation and Theory of Macromolecules | Hünfeld, Germany | 2022 | Best poster; Session chair

9. RESOLV Klausurtagung | Germany | 2021 

10. Modern Approaches in Chemistry and Biology | JNCASR, Bangalore, India | 2020 

11. Dynamics at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology | SSCU, IISc, India | 2019 

12. Theoretical Chemistry Symposium | BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India | 2019 | Best poster

13. SSCU Unit Day Symposium | SSCU, IISc, India | 2019 | Best poster

14. GRC+GRS: Water and Aqueous Solutions Meeting | Holderness, USA | 2018 

15. CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry | IICT, Hyderabad, India | 2017 

16. SSCU Unit Day Symposium | SSCU, IISc, India | 2017 

17. Theoretical Chemistry Symposium | UOH, Hyderabad, India | 2017