Employment:

• Raman Research Institute (Bengaluru, India)

    Associate Professor-I (2024 - )

•The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago (Chicago, USA)

    AI & Science Post-Doctoral Fellow (2023-2024)

   Supervisor: Prof. Vincenzo Vitelli

• Institut für Theoretische Physik, University of Göttingen (Goettingen, Germany)

    Post-Doctoral Research Fellow  (2019-2020)

   Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions:  Individual Fellow (IF) (2020 - 2022)

   Supervisor: Prof. Peter Sollich

• National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR (Bengaluru, India)

    Simons Career Development Fellow  (2017-2018)

    Supervisor: Prof. Madan Rao

Education:

 • Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru, India)

    Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (2012 - 2017)

    Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Chandan Dasgupta and Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy

• University of Calcutta (Kolkata, India)

    M.Sc. in Physics (2010 - 2012)

• Presidency College (Kolkata, India)

    B.Sc. in Physics (2007 - 2010)

Grants and Fellowship:

•Summer Research Fellowship by Indian Academy of Science, INAS and NASI in 2011.

•Junior Research Fellowship (2012-2014) and Senior Research Fellowship (2014-2017) by CSIR.

•Simons Career Development Fellowship at Simons Centre for the study of Living Machines at NCBS, TIFR in 2018.

•Infosys Excellence Travel Grant from ICTS in 2016 and NCBS in 2018.

•Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions: Individual Fellowship, 2020.

• AI & Science Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2023 - 2025.

Conference Attended:

• RRI Statistical Physics School, Bangalore, India (2012).

• RRI Statistical Physics School, Bangalore, India (2013).

• IISc Physics Department Inhouse Symposium, Bangalore, India (2014).

    Awarded Best Poster Award in the Department.

• Bangalore School on Statistical Physics, Bangalore, India (2015).

• ICTP-ICTS School on Quantitative Systems Biology, Bangalore, India (2015).

• IISc Physics Department Inhouse Symposium, Bangalore, India (2016).

    Awarded Best Poster Award in the Department.

• ICTP-ICTS School on Quantitative Systems Biology, Trieste, Italy (2016).

• Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics-XIV, Bruneck, Italy (2017).

    Awarded European Physical Society Best Poster Award .

• TAU-ESPCI Winter School on Active Matter, Tel-Aviv, Israel (2018).

• Summer School on Active Matter and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics, Les Houches, France (2018).

• Yielding Phenomena in Disordered Systems, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (2019).

• STATPHYS 27, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019).

• Third Infinity Conference, Goettingen, Germany (2020).

• Recent advances on the glass problem, CECAM, Switzerland, Online Workshop (2021).

• Fundamentals of Growing Active Matter, University of Edinburgh, Online Workshop (2021).

• Glassy Systems and Inter-Disciplinary Applications, Cargese, France  (2021).

• German Physical Society (DPG) Spring meeting at Regensburg, Germany (2022).