Dr. Chandan Kumar Das
Postdoctoral Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Computational Biotechnology
RWTH Aachen University
Worringerweg 3
2.Sammelbau Biologie, 3.Etage
52074 Aachen, Germany.
Email: c.das@biotec.rwth-aachen.de | das.chandan88@gmail.com
ORCID: 0009-0000-4838-8233
Position
June, 2023-Present Postdoctoral researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), In the group of Prof. Maria Fyta, Lehrstuhl für Biotechnologie, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany.
May, 2019-May, 2023 Postdoctoral researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), In the group of Prof. Lars V. Schäfer, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Education
2012-2019 Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry, Under the guidance of Prof. Nisanth N. Nair, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
2010-2012 M.Sc. in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
2007-2010 B.Sc. in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira (under University of Calcutta), India.
Research Areas & Expertise
Computational Chemistry and Biophysics | Multiscale Modelling and Simulation
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations
Enhanced sampling techniques - metadynamics and umbrella sampling
Modeling of chemical reactions in enzyme using QM and hybrid QM/MM approaches
Awards & Achievements
2019 Received FP-RESOMUS Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship for the postdoctoral research
2012 Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Chemistry for Ph.D. fellowship (All India Rank 205)
2010 Qualified Joint Admission test for Masters (JAM) in Chemistry for M.Sc. study (All India Rank 62)
Selected Conference Presentations
March 2026 DPG Meeting, Dresden, Germany (Oral presentation)
January, 2024 SABIC 2024, Kolkata, India
November, 2023 Black Forest Nanopore Meeting, Freiburg, Germany
April, 2023 Hünfeld 2023: Workshop on Computer Simulation and Theory of Macromolecules, Hünfeld, Germany
September, 2022 International Symposium on Confinement-Controlled Chemistry, Bochum, Germany
September, 2021 RESOLV Klausurtagung, Bochum, Germany
July, 2021 European Biophysics Conference (13th EBSA Congress), Vienna, Austria
April, 2021 Hünfeld 2021: Workshop on Computer Simulation and Theory of Macromolecules
December, 2017 Asia-Pacific Conference of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (APCTCC 8), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
November, 2017 Computing in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine, IIIT Hyderabad, India (selected for best poster award)
December, 2016 Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS), University of Hyderabad - School of Chemistry, Hyderabad, India
May, 2014 Recent Advances in Modeling Rare Events (RARE), Kerala, India