Neelanjana Sengupta
Professor
Dept: Biological Sciences (DBS), Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: n.sengupta [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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The key goal of our research is to understand and predict the behaviour of biological systems at the molecular level using ‘bottoms up’ approaches. This involves harnessing the power of modern-day computers to investigate the structure, dynamics and thermodynamics of biological complexes at the atomistic level in their closest native milieu, as well as under chemically perturbing environmental conditions. Advanced, state-of-the-art molecular simulations, combined with tools based on the principles of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, offers us a powerful ‘computational microscope’ to investigate a variety of biological problams from a fundamental as well as from an applied perspective. Extensive collaborations with biochemists, disease biologists and material chemists are carried out. We are increasingly developing analytical tools that harness the advantages of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence methods (AI).
- Ph.D (Chemical and Materials Physics), UCI (University of California, Irvine), 2008, Advisor: Douglas J. Tobias
- Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (2016 - 2019)
- Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (2019 - 2019)
- Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) Pune (2008 - 2016)
- Bronze Medal from Chemical research Society of India (2024)
- Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2021)