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

217-B

Research Interests: 

Physics of Living Matter Group

 

The research in our group focuses on the physics of living matter. We study dynamic processes at the cellular and tissue scales and their role during morphogenesis, namely, the process of development of an organism. To do this, we use theoretical methods from equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and nonlinear dynamics.

 

Research Topics:

  • Active and passive transport inside cells
  • Physics of morphogenesis
  • Collective phenomena in biological active matter

 

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)


Alumni

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • R. K. Singh (currently Postdoc at University of Louisiana at Lafeyette, USA)
  • Priya Chakraborty (currently Postdoc at IMSC, Chennai, India)

Ph.D. students

  • Indrani Nayak (co-supervisor: Dibyendu Das, currently Postdoc at Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA) (Thesis Title: First passage processes in confined space)
  • Monika Sanoria (co-supervisor: Raghunath Chelakkot, currently Postdoc at University of California Merced, CA, USA) (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 (Ph.D. student at Penn State University, PA, USA)
  • Aditya Sharma (Engineer, S/W Platform R&D Lab, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, South Korea)
  • Ajay Bansal (Ph.D. student at NCBS, Bangalore, KA, India)
  • Anjali Yadav (Ph.D. student at Neil Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
  • Anurag Pendse (Ph.D. student at Princeton University, NJ, USA)
  • Arkya Chatterjee (Ph.D. student at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
  • Atharv Tambade (Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, ATL, USA)
  • Hrithik Barman
  • Jeremy Miranda (Ph.D. student at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
  • Mikail Khona (Ph.D. student at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
  • Nirbhay Patil (Ph.D. student at ENS, Paris, France)
  • Rishabh Malviya (Machine learning specialist at Aquabyte, San Francisco, CA, USA)
  • Shobhan Dev Mandal (Ph.D. student at SNBNCBS, Kolkata, WB, India)
  • Sushant Saryal (Ph.D: IISER-Pune, currently postdoc at Princeton University, NJ, USA)

 

Teaching

  • 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