Ph.D (Statistical Mechanics, Theory): Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India.
M.Sc (Physics): Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
B.Sc (Physics Honours): St. Xavier's College Kolkata, under University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Employment:
Assistant Professor : Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India (2024- now)
Researcher : University of Milan, Milan, Italy (2024)
Visiting Scientist : International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (2023)
Visiting Scientist : Freie University Berlin, Germany (2023)
Assistant Professor : Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India (2020-2023)
Research Scientist : Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, (2015-2020)
Visiting Scientist : Freie University Berlin, Germany (2018 Dec- 2019 Feb)
Postdoctoral Fellow : Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, (2014-2015)
Awards:
National Scholarship for securing 18th rank in the State in Secondary School Final Examination, from West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, India (2001).
Governor’s Proficiency Certificate for ranking 1st among the girls in the District in Secondary School Final Examination, from the Governor of West Bengal, India (2001).
Recognition for securing 1st position in the District among the girls in the Higher Secondary Examination, from West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, India (2003).
Shivaji Dutta Gupta Silver Medal for securing highest marks in English in the State in Higher Secondary Examination, from the State Board ‘West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education’, India (2003).
IIT-Madras Merit Scholarship throughout M.Sc, IIT-Madras, India (2006-2008).
JEST (AIR 90, 2006), JAM (2006), GATE (2008), CSIR JRF and SRF (2008).
International travel support from Science and Engineering Research Board, India (2012).
Max-Planck Institute Fellowship, Germany (2014).
Best Poster prize at the conference “Wetting in Complex Systems”, Germany (2019).
Excellence Research Scholarship from Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India (2020).
Invited Talks at International Conferences:
"International Conference on Emerging Trends in Complex Systems, Advanced Materials and Photonics", India, 2025.
"Structure and Dynamics of Chemical and Biomolecular Systems", India, 2023.
"International Conference on Soft Materials", Jaipur, India, 2022.
“Soft Matter at Interfaces”, Germany, 2019.
“International Conference on Complex Fluids and Soft Matter COMPFLU 2019”, Bhopal, India, 2019.
“CECAM International Conference: Statistical mechanics of interfaces: dynamic phenomena”, Berlin, Germany, 2018.
“3rd International Conference on Soft Materials (ICSM)”, Jaipur, India, 2018.
Invited Talks at National Conferences:
"Hyderabad Soft Matter Day", India, August 2025.
"Soft Matter Young Investigators Meet", India, June 2025.
“Condmat@2023” workshop at Ashoka University, India, April 2023.
“Annual Theory Discussion Days”, Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad, India, August 2023.
“Current Trends in Statistical Physics”, JNCASR Bangalore, India, 2022.
“Statistical Physics Discussion Meeting”, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2022.
Conference: “TSU@25”, JNCASR, India, October 2021.
Five invited lectures at a summer school “Theoretical Physics School”, India, June 2021.
Conference: “Soft Matter Young Investigators Meet-2021”, India, 2021.
Invited Talks at Institutes:
University of Vienna, Austria, 2023
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy, 2023
Indian Institute for Science Education and Research Kolkata, India, 2023.
Discipline of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, 2023.
Indian Institute for Science Education and Research Tirupati, India, 2023.
Indian Institute of Technology Dharvad, India, 2022.
Centre for Complex Systems and Dynamics, IIT Madras, India, 2022.
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, 2021.
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India, 2019.
TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad, India, 2019.
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 2019.
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, 2019.
Indian Institute of Science, India, 2019.
Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, 2018.
Freie University Berlin, Germany, 2016.
Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, 2013 (Department Julicher)
Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, 2013.
Institute of Physics, Johanes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany, 2012.
(Kurt Binder group)
The Insitute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India, 2012.
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India, 2012.
Invited Short-term Visits to Institutes:
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, Feb 2022.
Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, Dec 2021.
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India, December 2019.
Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India: Feb 2018, Feb 2021, May2022.
SISSA, Italy, December 2016.
Freie University Berlin, Germany, May 2016, September 2016.
University of Duesseldorf, Germany, June 2015.
University of Mainz, Germany, July 2012.
Conference participations and presentations:
48. Career Development Workshop for Women in Physics, ICTP, Italy, October 2023. Talk. (‘Non-equilibrium dynamics in fluids with
temperature gradient’).
47. 8th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics, July 2023.
46. A short summer school on "Nonlinear Physics and Statistical Physics", July 2022.
45. International conference `Transport in Narrow Channels’, Cargese, 2020. (Talk)
44. `Soft Matter at Interfaces’, Germany, 2020. Talk
43. STATPHYS 27, Argentina, July 2019. (Talk) ‘Solvent coarsening around colloids and related
Casimir forces’.
42. Soft Matter at Interfaces 2018, Ringberg, Germany, April 2018. Poster ‘Non-equilibrium
dynamics of solvent around suspended colloids’.
41. DPG Spring Meeting, Berlin, Germany, March 2018. Talk ‘Non-equilibrium surface critical
dynamics in a confined binary liquid mixture’.
40. Liquid Matter Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2017. Poster ‘From collective transport to
temperature-gradient driven motion in a near-critical binary liquid’.
39. Soft Matter at Interfaces 2017, Ringberg, Germany, February 2017.
38. STATPHYS 26, Lyon, France, July 2016. Poster ‘Critical Casimir forces in Binary Liquid Mixture: a
MD simulation study’.
37. 6th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics, Sandomierz, Poland, June 2016.
36. Soft Matter at Interfaces 2016, Ringberg, Germany, February 28- March 2, 2016.
35. Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics, Vienna, Austria,
February 2016. Poster ‘Universality of Static and Dynamic Response near the Demixing
Transitions of Binary Fluids’.
34. Conference on Complex Fluids-COMPFLU-2016, Pune, India, January 2016. Talk ‘Statics and
Dynamics of the Critical Casimir Effects in a Binary Fluid’.
33. Conference on Growing Length Scale Phenomena, Bangalore, India, October 2015. Talk ‘Statics
and Dynamics of the Critical Casimir Effects in Binary Fluids’.
32. Soft Matter at Interfaces 2015, Ringberg, Germany, 2015. Poster ‘Static and Dynamic Critical
Point Universalities in Binary Fluids: a computer simulation study’.
31. Lattice Boltzmann 2015 COST Training School, Madrid, Spain, May 2015.
30. Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Meeting DPG, Berlin, Germany, March 2015. Talk
‘Dynamics of a near-critical Binary Fluid in Bulk and Confinement’.
29. Conference on Soft Materials (ICSM 2014), Jaipur, India, October 2014. Poster ‘Dynamics of the
Critical Casimir Effect in a Binary Fluid’.
28. Liquids 2014: the 9th Liquid matter Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2014. Poster ‘Dynamics at
Liquid-Liquid Criticality: simulations and finite-size scaling’.
27. Soft Matter at Interfaces 2014, Ringberg, Germany, April 30-May 3, 2014. Poster ‘Critical
Dynamics in a Binary Fluid near its Consolute Point’.
26. Colloquium for Young Physicists, organized by Indian Physics Association,, Kolkata, 2013. Talk.
25. Cambridge-JNCASR Winter School on Frontiers in Materials Science, Bangalore, India,
November 2013. Poster ‘Motion of Droplets for Off-Critical Vapor-Liquid Phase eparation’.
24. JNCASR Inhouse Symposium, Bangalore, India, November 2013. Poster ‘Dynamics and Growth
of Droplets close to the Vapor-Liquid Coexistence Curve’.
23. TSU Inhouse Symposium, JNCASR, Bangalore, India, August 2013. Talk ‘Effects of Domain
Morphology on Kinetics of Fluid Phase Separation’.
22. Conference on Condensed Matter and Biological Systems, Banaras, India, January 2013. Poster
‘Dynamics and Growth of Droplets close to the Vapor-Liquid Coexistence Curve’.
21. JNC Research Conference on Chemistry of Materials, Trivandrum, India, September 30-
October 2, 2012. Poster ‘Nucleation and Growth of Droplets in Vapor-Liquid Transition’.
20. JNCASR Inhouse Symposium, Bangalore, India, November 2012. Poster ‘Dynamics of Droplets
in Off-Critical Vapor-Liquid Transition’.
19. TSU Inhouse Symposium, JNCASR Bangalore, India, August 2012. Talk ‘Nucleation and Growth
in Vapor-Liquid Transition’.
18. School on Heterogeneous Nucleation and Microstructure Formation: Steps towards system
and scale bridging understanding, Bayreuth, Germany, July 2012. Poster ‘Nucleation and
Growth of Droplets in Vapor-Liquid Transition’.
17. Conference on Dynamics of Phase Transformations, Bangalore, India, November 2011. Poster
‘Critical Dynamics in Binary Fluids’.
16. JNCASR Inhouse Symposium, Bangalore, India, 2011. Poster ‘Effects of Morphology in the
Kinetics of Vapor-Liquid Phase Separation’.
15. TSU Inhouse Symposium JNCASR Bangalore, India, August 2011 Talk ‘Thermodynamics vs
Dynamics: Critical Phenomena in Small Systems’.
14. JNCASR- UCL Workshop on Multi-scale Modeling and Simulations of Materials, Bangalore,
India, January 2011. Talk ‘Bulk Viscosity at Fluid-Fluid Criticality’.
13. JNCASR Inhouse Symposium, Bangalore, India, November 2010. Talk ‘Dynamics at Fluid-Fluid
Criticality’.
12. TSU Inhouse Symposium JNCASR Bangalore, India, 2010. Talk ‘Dynamics at Criticality’.
11. Conference on Current Trends in Condensed Matter Physics, Bhubaneswar, India, December
2010. Poster ‘Transport Phenomena at Fluid-Fluid Criticality’.
10. RRI school on Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, Bangalore, India, March 22-April 3, 2010.
9. SERC School cum Symposium on Molecular Simulations: Applications in Engineering Sciences,
Bangalore, India, May 2009.
8. 2nd Bangalore Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting, Bangalore, India, March 2009.
7. School on Understanding Molecular Simulation, Bangalore, India, August 2009.
6. JNCASR Inhouse Symposium, Bangalore, India, November 2009. Poster ‘Critical Dynamics in
Binary Fluids’.
5. Conference on Disorder, Complexity and Biology (DISCOMB II), Banaras, India, January 2009.
4. DST SERC School on Computational Statistical Physics, Guwahati, India, December 2008.3. DST
SERC School on Nonlinear Dynamics, Bangalore, India, June 26-July 16, 2008.
2. Basic Workshop: Sun and Stars, Kolkata, India, November 2005.
1. CSIR Program on Youth for Leadership in Science (CPYLS), held for the toppers in Secondary
School Final Examination in West Bengal and Sikkim, Kolkata, India, November 2001.
Other:
Co-organizer of an international conference “Mathematics and Physics of Fluids 2021”, India (2021).
Reviewer of a few scientific journals (profile can be found at Web of Science)
Membership of scientific societies: Indian Physics Association, The Indian Physical Society, DCMP Asia Pacific Physical Society.