Research Interest:

Methods:

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Development

  • Suitable order parameters compatible with atomistic simulations to describe amyloid transitions
  • Electrical properties within nanopores
  • Kinetics of protein denaturation via thermal and environmental perturnbation

Materials

  • Biomacromolecules (peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, membranes)
  • Nanomaterials
  • Solvent mixtures

Properties

  • Protein Folding and Misfolding via Environmental Perturnbation
  • Amyloidogeneis
  • Modifying amyloidogeneic pathways with nanomaterials
  • Solvent Transport in nanochannels

Professional Experience

  • 2016: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata
  • 2008-2016; Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
  • 2008: Ph.D, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of California, Irvine (With Prof. Doug Tobias)
  • 2015: Raman Rsearch Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Cambridge, UK (with Prof. David Wales)