Sayantan MondalShort Academic Biography
I received a B.Sc in chemistry from St. Xavier's College (Kolkata, India) followed by an M.Sc with physical chemistry specialization from the University of Calcutta (Kolkata, India). After qualifying the national eligibility test (NET), I joined Prof. Biman Bagchi's research group at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru, India) in July 2015. During my Ph.D., I studied several structural and dynamic aspects of confined water, bio-molecular hydration, microdroplet chemistry, and protein dissociation by employing molecular simulations and statistical mechanics. I was awarded 'the Toulouse medal' as the best Ph.D. thesis award. In June 2021, I joined the research group of Prof. Qiang Cui at Boston University (BU) as a post-doctoral research associate. At BU, I worked on the coarse-grain modeling of disordered peptides/polyelectrolytes and the interaction of coacervates with cell membranes. Starting from Jan 2024, I joined the group of Prof. Eugene Shakhnovich at Harvard University for my second post-doctoral experience. At Harvard, I am working on various aspects of liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of disordered peptides. In the future, I aspire to stay in academia to continue research and teaching. |
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
- Paul Dirac
[Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, 123(792), 714-733, 1929]