Professor Buddhapriya Chakrabarti

PhD

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Honorary Professor

b.chakrabarti@sheffield.ac.uk
Hicks Building

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Professor Buddhapriya Chakrabarti
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
Profile

My research interests involve the study of soft and biological matter using techniques of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, continuum mechanics (including classical field theories) and coarse-grained simulations.

My primary scientific goal involves understanding the interplay of geometry, mechanics, entropy, and charge in dictating physical properties of complex adaptive matter.

I have used these techniques to understand rheological chaos in wormlike micelles, study ribbon curling under elastoplastic deformations, unravel mechanics of DNA proteins and other biopolymers.

My most recent interest is on studying migration of small molecules in complex mixtures.

At present I have openings for two PhD studentships and two PDRAs. My current PhD student (Mr. Salvatore Croce) is finishing up his PhD from Durham University.

Career history

  • Senior Lecturer (2017-, Department of Physics, University of Sheffield)
  • Senior Lecturer (2015-2017, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University)
  • Lecturer (2009-2015, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University)
  • Postdoctoral research fellow (2007-2008, Department of Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Postdoctoral research fellow (2005-2007, Department of Physics, Harvard University)
  • Postdoctoral research associate (2003-2005, 2008-2009, Department of Physics, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Amherst)
Qualifications
  • PhD (2004) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Research interests
  • Theoretical Soft Matter Physics and Biological Physics
  • Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics
  • Continuum mechanics and Classical field theories
  • Mathematical Physiology
Publications

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Journal articles

  • Biswas S, Mukherjee B & Chakrabarti B (2022) . Soft Matter, 18(42), 8117-8123.
  • Krawczyk J, Croce S, McLeish TCB & Chakrabarti B (2016) . Physical Review Letters, 116(20).
  • Jones ML, Huang DM, Chakrabarti B & Groves C (2016) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(8), 4240-4250.
  • Prior C, Moussou J, Chakrabarti B, Jensen OE & Juel A (2016) . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(7), 1719-1724.

All publications

Journal articles

  • Fall WS, Kolli HB, Mukherjee B & Chakrabarti B (2024) . Soft Matter.
  • McLauchlan J, Tyler AII, Chakrabarti B, Orfila C & Sarkar A (2024) . Food Hydrocolloids, 154, 110139-110139.
  • Patel MK, Chakrabarti B & Panwar AS (2024) . Biophysical Journal, 123(3), 322a-322a.
  • Biswas S, Mukherjee B & Chakrabarti B (2022) . Soft Matter, 18(42), 8117-8123.
  • Mukherjee B & Chakrabarti B (2022) . Macromolecules.
  • Taylor AIP, Gahan LD, Chakrabarti B & Staniforth R (2020) . Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(2).
  • Maji A, Ahmed JA, Roy S, Chakrabarti B & Mitra MK (2020) . Biophysical Journal, 118(12), 3041-3050.
  • Pasquina-Lemonche L, Burns J, Turner RD, Kumar S, Tank R, Mullin N, Wilson JS, Chakrabarti B, Bullough PA, Foster SJ & Hobbs JK (2020) . Nature.
  • Kaity B, Sarkar R, Chakrabarti B & Mitra MK (2020) . Biophysical Journal, 118(3), 286a-286a.
  • Mandal R, Chakrabarti B, Chakraborty D & Dasgupta C (2020) . Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 32(13), 134002-134002.
  • Guiselin B, Law JO, Chakrabarti B & Kusumaatmaja H (2018) . Physical Review Letters, 120(23).
  • Kaity B, Sarkar R, Chakrabarti B & Mitra MK (2018) . Scientific Reports, 8(1).
  • Jones ML, Huang DM, Chakrabarti B & Groves C (2017) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121(22), 12504-12504.
  • Alageshan JK, Chakrabarti B & Hatwalne Y (2017) . Physical Review E, 95(2).
  • Krawczyk J, Croce S, McLeish TCB & Chakrabarti B (2016) . Physical Review Letters, 116(20).
  • Jones ML, Huang DM, Chakrabarti B & Groves C (2016) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(8), 4240-4250.
  • Prior C, Moussou J, Chakrabarti B, Jensen OE & Juel A (2016) . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(7), 1719-1724.
  • Mitra MK, Taylor PR, Hutchison CJ, McLeish TCB & Chakrabarti B (2014) . Interface, 11(100).
  • Tapp D, Taylor JM, Lubansky AS, Bain CD & Chakrabarti B (2014) . Optics Express, 22(4), 4523-4523.
  • Jones ML, Chakrabarti B & Groves C (2014) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(1), 85-91.
  • Chakrabarti B () . Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics.
  • Patel MK, Chakrabarti B & Panwar AS () . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25(48), 32824-32836.
  • Mukherjee B & Chakrabarti B () . Polymers, 12(7), 1576-1576.
  • Kumar Alageshan J, Chakrabarti B & Hatwalne Y () . Physical Review E, 95(4).

Conference proceedings

  • Gahan LD, Taylor AIP, Chakrabarti BJ, Hawkins RJ & Staniforth RA (2021) Coarse grained simulations of amyloidogenic proteins in the context of Alzheimer's disease. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS, Vol. 50(SUPPL 1) (pp 123-123)
  • Hargreaves A, Bull J, Chakrabarti B & Bain C (2017) . Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XIV, 6 August 2017 - 10 August 2017.

Working papers

  • Argungu M, Bayram S, Brook B, Chakrabarti B, Clayton RH, Daly DM, Dyson RJ, Holloway C, Manhas V, Naire S , Shearer T et al () Modelling afferent nerve responses to bladder filling.

Datasets

  • Lemonche LP, Burns J, Turner R, Kumar S, Tank R, Mullin N, Wilson J, Chakrabarti B, Bullough P, Foster S & Hobbs J .

Preprints

  • Patel MK, Chakrabarti B & Panwar AS (2023) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Taylor AIP, Gahan LD, Staniforth RA & Chakrabarti B (2019) A Two-Step Biopolymer Nucleation Model Shows a Nonequilibrium Critical Point, arXiv.
  • Biswas S & Chakrabarti B () , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Biswas S, Mukherjee B & Chakrabarti B () , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Maji A, Ahmed J, Roy S, Chakrabarti B & Mitra MK () , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Kaity B, Sarkar R, Chakrabarti B & Mitra MK () , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Research group

Professional activities and memberships

Member EPSRC Peer Review College