Post Doctoral Research, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
PhD, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Jadavpur University
MSc (Physics) Presidency College, University of Calcutta
BSc (Hons. in Physics) University of Calcutta
Soft Condensed Matter Physics (Theoretical), Computational Physics, Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Physics of Active and Biological Systems
Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Dr Sengupta’s research largely focuses on studying the dynamics of active colloids, cells and microorganisms in response to their environment, and understanding how their individual and collective dynamics can be modified and even manipulated by varying external conditions.
• Post Doctoral Research position from SFB TR6 (DFG) Project funding of the Institute of Theoretical Physics II: Soft Matter, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany, 2008
• Marie Curie Experienced Researcher position, under the Marie Curie – Initial Training Network (ITN) COMPLOIDS Postdoctoral research project of Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre, UK in collaboration with the Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 2010
• CNRS Post Doctoral Researcher to work on Collective Cell Migration, jointly with the Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de la Matiere Condensee (LPTMC) and Laboratoire Jean Perrin, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France, and with the Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Rehovot, Israel, 2013
• Invited speaker at the conference on Fluctuations and Scaling in Materials, held at Todi, Umbria, Italy in July 2007 (selected under the FSM Young Scientist Promotion scheme)
• Invited Judge for the 47th Jawaharlal Nehru Science Mathematics and Environmental Exhibition 2019-2020 at the Regional Level held in Kolkata, 2019
Amity Institute of Applied Sciences, Kolkata