News & Updates


  • September, 2022: Prof. Bagchi gets inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • August, 2022: Subhajit wins Best Poster Award at Paris International School on Advanced Computational Materials Science, Sorbonne Université, Paris

  • July,2022: Professor Arun Yethiraj visits our group

  • June, 2022: Ved joins as a master thesis student

  • January , 2022: Anjali defends her Ph.D. thesis successfully

  • August, 2021: Saumyak joins the group of Prof. Lars Schäfer at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany as a Research Associate

  • June, 2021: Sayantan joins the group of Prof. Qiang Cui at Boston University, USA as a Post Doctoral researcher

  • March, 2021: Atanu Baksi joins our group as a Post Doctoral researcher

  • February, 2021: Saumyak receives the FP-RESOMUS Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for Post Doctoral research in Germany (Fellowship Page Link).

  • February 17, 2021: Sayantan defends his Ph.D. thesis successfully

  • February 11, 2021: Saumyak defends his Ph.D. thesis successfully (Link)

  • January, 2021: Online conference "Statistical Mechanics in Chemistry and Biology" (SMCB-2021). (Website link)

  • December, 2020: Work from our group (Water layer at hydrophobic surface: Electrically dead but dynamically alive?) gets featured in IISc website (link)

  • December, 2020: Sayantan's paper gets published in Nano Letters (link)

  • November, 2020: Rajesh joins the group of Prof. Eli Pollak at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel as a Post Doctoral researcher

  • September, 2020: Puja joins the group of Prof. Gregory A. Voth at the University of Chicago, USA as a Post Doctoral researcher

  • September, 2020: Dr. Neeta Bidhoodi joins our group as a Post Doctoral researcher

  • August, 2020: Prof. Bagchi is selected as the recipient of the prestigious Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical & Experimental Chemistry of Liquids (ACS 2021 national award) (Link)

  • July, 2020: Rajesh defends his thesis successfully

  • 17.07.2020: Sayantan submits his thesis

  • 16.07.2020: Saumyak submits his thesis

  • 26.06.2020: Saumyak presents his thesis colloquium (Link)

  • 18.06.2020: Sayantan presents his thesis colloquium

  • April, 2020: Prof. Bagchi is elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Link)

  • February, 2020: Puja defends her thesis successfully

  • December, 2019: Prof. Bagchi is selected for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s prestigious Humboldt Science Research Award (Link)

  • October, 2019: Prof. Bagchi is conferred with the National Science Chair award by DST-SERB, India (Link)

  • February, 2019: Sayantan wins Best Poster Award at Dynamics at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology conference, IISc.

  • February, 2019: Saumyak and Anjali win Best Poster Awards at Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, BITS Pilani, Rajasthan.