Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Sayantan Mondal
Present Designation
Post-doctoral Research Fellow Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Suite: M-110 Harvard University 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138, USA |
Nationality
Indian Date of birth 5th October, 1991 Google Scholar Profile Total citations : 795 h-index : 18 i10-index : 23 |
Contact information
Email: [email protected] [email protected] |
Topics of Interest
Statistical mechanics Chemical dynamics Theory of liquids Soft-condensed matter Biophysical chemistry Computer simulations Enhanced sampling Active matter |
Research Background
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) Membrane/Vesicle remodeling Chemical dynamics in nanoconfined water Reaction acceleration in small aqueous droplets Protein aggregation and dissociation Structure and dynamics of bio-molecules Bio-molecular hydration dynamics Solvation dynamics and Dielectric relaxation Characterization of medicinally important molecules Mathematical modeling of disease spread dynamics |
Educational qualifications and research experiences
Timeline
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Description
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2024-Present
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Harvard University
Advisor: Prof. Eugene Shakhnovich ([email protected]) |
2021-2023
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Duration: 2 years 07 months
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2015-2021
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2013-2015
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M.Sc from University of Calcutta, India.
Physical chemistry specialisation Dissertation title: Bonding Properties of C2 and analogous eight valence species. Advisor: Prof. Ayan Datta (IACS, Kolkata) ([email protected]) |
First class (84% marks)
with Rank-02 |
2010-2013
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B.Sc from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India.
Chemistry major with physics and mathematics |
First class (83% marks)
with Rank-01 |
Previous fellowships and funding
Research Associateship (IISc Bengaluru and DST-SERB, India)
Research Fellowship (from University Grants Commission, India)
availed through National Eligibility Test (NET) [all India rank - 30 (2015) and 80 (2014)]
Research Associateship (IISc Bengaluru and DST-SERB, India)
Research Fellowship (from University Grants Commission, India)
availed through National Eligibility Test (NET) [all India rank - 30 (2015) and 80 (2014)]
Public Lectures and Seminars
2022
2021 2020 2019 2019 2016 |
Membrane Remodeling by Polyelectrolyte Condensates
Anisotropic Dielectric Response of nanoconfined water and Reaction Rate Enhancement in Aqueous Microdroplets Dynamics of disease spread: A reaction network based modelling approach Patterns in Nature: Formation and Recognition and a few bits of Artificial Intelligence Anomalous polarisation relaxation and dielectric properties of nanoconfined water Active matter : Flocking, swarming and schooling |
Telluride workshop (virtual)
P-Chem seminar at Boston University Zoom webinar organised by IISER Pune Departmental seminar at IISc Indo-Japan conference at IISc Bengaluru Departmental seminar at IISc |
Computational skills
High performance computing : Former system administrator of Bagchi groups’ personal HPC cluster
(with 20 nodes, 240 processors, 70 TB Fujitsu storage, and Infiniband switch)
Programming languages : Fortran 90, Python, Matlab, Bash, and Awk scripting
Software related to research : GROMACS, LAMMPS, Plumed, Gaussian, Gnuplot, Xmgrace, VMD
Other software : LaTex, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, MS Office, ShotCut.
Operating system : Linux, Mac, Windows.
High performance computing : Former system administrator of Bagchi groups’ personal HPC cluster
(with 20 nodes, 240 processors, 70 TB Fujitsu storage, and Infiniband switch)
Programming languages : Fortran 90, Python, Matlab, Bash, and Awk scripting
Software related to research : GROMACS, LAMMPS, Plumed, Gaussian, Gnuplot, Xmgrace, VMD
Other software : LaTex, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, MS Office, ShotCut.
Operating system : Linux, Mac, Windows.
Honours and Award
2022
2019 2018 2015 2013 2012 2011 |
The Toulouse Medal (Best thesis award, IISc)
Best poster award in the international conference named “Dynamics at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology” GARP travel funding award from IISc, Bengaluru Award for giving a lecture on “Negative Absolute Temperature” at a inter college students’ lecture series at the University of Calcutta. Mira Memorial Gold Medal award (for securing first position in 2010-2013 batch from St. Xavier’s College) Hirendra Mohan Mitra Memorial prize (for securing first position in semester III and IV from St. Xavier’s College) West Bengal State Government Scholarship |
Teaching Experience
2017
2020 |
Teaching Assistant
Course: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Instructor: Prof. Govardhan Reddy (IISc Bengaluru) Teaching Assistant Course: Statistical Mechanics Instructor: Prof. Biman Bagchi (IISc Bengaluru) |
Conferences and Workshops Attended
2023
2023 2022 2022 2022 2020 2019 2019 2019 2018 2018 2017 2017 |
Gordon Research Conference - Soft matter physics
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Coarse-Grained Modeling of Structure and Dynamics of Biomacromolecules ESCRT Biology Conference Computational Biophysics Hands-on workshop Modern Approaches in Chemistry and Biology Dynamics at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology Free Energy Calculations for Chemical and Biological Systems International Theoretical Chemistry Symposium Gordon Research Conference - Water Recent Advances in Molecular Simulations CRSI ACS - National Symposium in Chemistry International Theoretical Chemistry Symposium |
Colby-Sawyer College, NH, USA
San Diego, CA, USA Telluride workshop (virtual) University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Virtual (by MMBioS) JNCASR, Bengaluru, India IISc Bengaluru, India IIT Kanpur, India BITS Pilani Rajasthan, India Holderness, New Hampshire, USA IISc Bengaluru, India IICT Hyderabad, India University of Hyderabad, India |
List of publications
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