Welcome!
Our research focuses on Soft Matter, Active Matter, Living Matter, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
We investigate how microscopic interactions, activity, and fluctuations give rise to emergent structure, dynamics, and flow behavior in complex materials far from equilibrium.
Amir Shee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Physics, College of Enginnering and Mathematical Sciences,
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
(November 2024 - October 2026)
Mentor: Prof. Haicen Yue
Research Experience:
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics(ESAM),
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems(NICO),
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
(December 2021-October 2024)
Mentor: Prof. Cristián Huepe
Education:
I earned my Ph.D. in November, 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Debasish Chaudhuri at Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (IOPB), India. You can read my Ph.D. thesis here.
Diploma in Advanced Physics (M.Phil.), Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India (2015-2016)
M. Sc. (Physics), IIT Kharagpur, India (2013-2015)
Link to arXiv , Google Scholar , ResearchGate , ORCiD , LinkedIn
Recent news
December 24, 2025: Our Reaserch Article "Chirality, confinement and dimensionality govern re-entrant transitions in active matter." published in The Journal of Chemical Physics. Link
October 16, 2025: Our Letter "Tuning steady shear rheology through active dopants" published in Physical Review Letters. Link
Amir Shee, Silke Henkes, Cristián Huepe ; Emergent mesoscale correlations in active solids with noisy chiral dynamics. Soft Matter, 2024, 20, 7865-7879 (2024).
Guozheng Lin, Zhangang Han, Amir Shee, Cristián Huepe ; Noise-Induced Quenched Disorder in Dense Active Systems. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 168301 (2023).
Amir Shee, Nisha Gupta, Abhishek Chaudhuri and Debasish Chaudhuri ; A semiflexible polymer in a gliding assay: reentrant transition, role of turnover and activity. Soft Matter, 2021, 17, 2120-2131 (2021).
Amir Shee, Abhishek Dhar and Debasish Chaudhuri ; Active Brownian particles: mapping to equilibrium polymers and exact computation of moments. Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 4776-4787 (2020).
Please feel free to reach out for potential collaboration or if you have any questions at amir.shee@uvm.edu and follow us on X for the latest updates and announcements about our recent research projects and publications.