Supratim Sengupta
Professor
Dept: Physical Sciences (DPS)
E-mail: supratim.sen [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
Origin of Life, Evolutionary Game Theory, Bayesian Inference.
Academic Background:
- PhD (Physics), Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (IOP), 2000, Thesis : Topological Defect Formation and Other Consequences of Phase Transitions in Field Theories.
- MSc (Physics), IIT Kharagpur, 1994
- BSc (Physics), Presidency College (Calcutta University), 1992
Positions:
- Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2007 - 2011)
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University (2005 - 2007)
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, McMaster University (2003 - 2005)
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Alberta (2000 - 2003)
Selected Publications:
- Roy, Suvam and Sengupta, Supratim. 2022."The Effect of Environment on the Evolution and Proliferation of Protocells of Increasing Complexity." Life, 12, 1227
- Pal, Anuran and Sengupta, Supratim. 2022."Network rewiring promotes cooperation in an aspirational learning model." Chaos, 32, 023109
- Roy, Suvam and Sengupta, Supratim. 2021."Evolution towards increasing complexity through functional diversification in a protocell model of the RNA world." Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288, 9
- Pathak, Spandan; Verma, Prateek; Ram, Sumit K and Sengupta, Supratim. 2020."How strategy environment and wealth shape altruistic behaviour: Cooperation rules affecting wealth distribution in dynamic networks." Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287, 1-8
- Roy, Suvam; Bapat, Niraja V; Derr, Julien; Rajamani, Sudha and Sengupta, Supratim. 2020." Emergence of ribozyme and tRNA-like structures from mineral-rich muddy pools on prebiotic earth." Journal of Theoretical Biology, 506, 110446
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