Amitabha Nandi
Professor
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Email: 
amitabha@phy.iitb.ac.in
Office: 

217-B

Research Interests: 

Physics of Living Matter Group

 

Our research focuses on the physics of living matter; we study dynamic processes at cellular and embryonic scales and their role in morphogenesis. We study these problems using theoretical and computational methods from Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Dynamics.

 

 

Current Team Members

 

Ph.D. students

  • Abhijit S.
  • Allen Jacob
  • Hillol Burman (jointly with Dibyendu Das)

Post-graduate/Undergraduate Students

  • Abhinav Prasad
  • Ananya Priyaroop (jointly with Anirban Sain)
  • Maitreya Walimbe
  • Nitansh Sachdev


Alumni

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

 

  • R. K. Singh
  • Priya Chakraborty


Ph.D. students

  • Indrani Nayak (co-supervisor: Dibyendu Das) (Thesis Title: First passage processes in confined space)
  • Monika Sanoria (co-supervisor: Raghunath Chelakkot) (Thesis Title: Effect of interaction softness on the collective properties of active Brownian particles)
  • Pampa Dey (co-supervisor: Punit Parmananda)(Thesis Title: Directed and Intermittent Transport in Biological and Synthetic Active Systems)
  • Padmalochini S. (Lead-supervisor: Raghunath Chelakkot, co-supervisor: Mandar Inamdar) (Thesis Title: Modeling collective behavior of epithelial monolayers)
 

Post-graduate/Undergraduate Students

  • Aayush Khare
  • Aditya Sharma
  • Ajay Bansal
  • Anjali Yadav
  • Anurag Pendse
  • Arkya Chatterjee
  • Atharv Tambade
  • Hrithik Barman
  • Jeremy Miranda
  • Mikail Khona
  • Nirbhay Patil
  • Rishabh Malviya
  • Shobhan Dev Mandal
  • Sushant Saryal

 

Teaching

  • Statistical Physics
  • Advanced Statistical Mechanics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Electromagnetic Theory
  • Basics of Electricity and Magnetism

 

Join Us

We are looking for candidates with a background in Physics and with a strong motivation to work on theoretical problems at the physics-biology interface. Previous knowledge of biology is not required.

 

Ph.D. position: We currently have Ph.D. positions available in our group. Interested candidates may contact me via email.

 

 

Postdoc position: Currently, no postdoc positions are available in our group.

 

Final year M.Sc/BTP Project: Please contact me via email or schedule an appointment.


Summer Project: There are no openings for summer projects. Enquiry emails will not be responded to.

Selected Publications: 

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Research Category: 
Soft Matter Physics