Dr. SHUBHAM KUMAR

Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Okazaki, Japan
Email: kshubham@ims.ac.jp

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Japan
Supervisor: Prof. Shinji Saito
June, 2024 –Present

Research Fellow

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
Supervisor: Prof. Biman Bagchi
August, 2018–May, 2024

Education

Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India
2018 – 2024

M.Sc. in  Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India
2016 – 2018

B.Sc. (Honours) in Chemistry
Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University, India
2011 – 2015

Research Interests

• Glass transition and dynamic heterogeneity
• Cage–jump dynamics and dynamic disorder
• Structure–dynamics relationships
• Transport in complex liquids
• Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

Technical Skills

• Programming and Scripting Languages: FORTRAN, Python, C++, Bash Shell Scripting

• Scientific Software: GROMACS, LAMMPS, Plumed, Gaussian, VMD, Pymol, Avogadro, Mathematica, MATLAB

• Graph Plotting Software: Origin, Xmgrace, Gnuplot

• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, macOS

• Other Tools: Microsoft Office, LaTex Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, GaussView

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant

• Course: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Instructor: Prof. Biman Bagchi

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

• Course: Basic Statistical Mechanics (NPTEL Online Course)

Instructor: Prof. Biman Bagchi

NPTEL, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

Scholastic Achievements

• CSIR Senior Research Fellowship (August 2020 – July 2023)

• CSIR Junior Research Fellowship (August 2018 – July 2020)

• Merit-cum-Means Scholarship in IIT Bombay (2016-2018)

• All-India Rank 103 in the Examination of CSIR-UGC NET-JRF (2016)

• All-India Rank 96 in IIT-Joint Admission for M.Sc. (2016)

Conferences and workshops

• The 19th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Molecular Science, Hiroshima, Japan (2025).

• Asia-Pacific Conference of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (APCTCC 11), Kobe, Japan (2025)

• Soft and Liquid Matter Physics: Past, Present, and Future, SLMP2025, Tokyo, Japan (2025) 

• Physical Chemistry Symposium (SoPhys), IIT Kanpur, India (2023)

• SSCU Unit Day and In-House Symposium, IISc, Bengaluru, India (2022)

• Computational Chemistry Symposium, Department of Atomic Energy, BARC, Mumbai, India (2019) 

• High-Performance Computing Workshop, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, IISc, India (2019)

• SSCU Unit Day and In-House Symposium, IISc, Bengaluru, India (2019)

• Recent Advances in Dynamics at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology, SSCU, IISc, India (2019)

• Indo-Japan Meeting, SSCU, IISc, Bengaluru, India (2018)

• In-House Symposium, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (2018)

• Asia-Pacific Conference of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (APCTCC 8), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (2017)