People

Smarajit Karmakar

Dr. Smarajit Karmakar

Associate Professor

Principal Investigator

Email: smarajit at tifrh dot res dot in

Phone: +91 40 20203087

Academic qualifications

  • Post Doctoral Fellow ( 2011 – 2012): Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy Advisor: Prof. Giorgio Parisi
  • Post Doctoral Fellow ( 2009 – 2011 ) : Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Advisor : Prof. Itamar Procaccia
  • PhD ( 2004 – 2009) : Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India. PhD Thesis : Numerical Studies of Slow Dynamics and Glass Transition in Model Liquids, Advisor : Prof. Chandan Dasgupta
  • Master of Science, (Physics) ( 2001 – 2004) : Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India , MS Thesis : Liquid to Solid Transition for Hard Sphere Systems : Density Functional Theory , Advisor : Prof. Chandan Dasgupta CGPA :: 7.2 (8.0)
  • Bachelor of Science, (Physics Major) ( 1998 – 2001): Department of Physics, Siksha Bhavana, Visva Bharati University. Santiniketan, India. Marks Obtained : 83%
  • Higher Secondary Examination ( 1996 – 1998): West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education , Marks Obtained : 85%
  • Secondary Examination ( 1996) : West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, Marks Obtained : 88%

Awards

• Top Rank in Bachelor of Science and Master of Science 2004
• Kumari L. A. Meera Memorial Award for the year 2003 − 2004 in recognition of being the best Integrated PhD Student in Physical Sciences, IISc, Bangalore, India.
• National Eligibility Test (NET) – 2004
• Recipient of Prestigious Dean’s Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science – 2010 -2012.
• Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, July – Sept. 2018.
• Recipient of Prestigious Swarna Jayanti Fellowship for the year 2018-2019 in Physical Science by Department of Science and Technology (DST).
• Recipient of prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researcher, Germany, 2021 – 2024.

 

Group Researchers

 

Post Doctoral Fellow

  • Jeetu S Babu (Mar 2014 – Mar 2015).

Doctoral Students

  • Indrajit Tah (submitted thesis in July 2019, Post Doc fellow in UPenn, USA)
  • Rajshekher Das (submitted thesis in August 2019, Post Doc fellow in UT Austin, USA)
  • Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik (submitted thesis in Sept 2019, Post Doc fellow in Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel).
  • Mrinmoy Mukherjee (jointly with Jagannath Mondal) (submitted synopsis).
  • Kallol Paul.
  • Vishnu V Krishnan.
  • Anoop Mutneja.

Group Researchers

Students Supervised

  1. Indrajit Tah (Aug. 2014 – 2019), Graduate Student (Graduated 2019 and postdoc fellow in Prof. A. Liu’s group in U. Penn until 2022, Assistant Professor in CGCRI Kolkata)
  2. Rajsekhar Das (Aug. 2014 – 2019), Graduate Student (Graduated 2019 and joined Prof. D. Thirumalai’s group in University of Texas for post-doctoral research.)
  3. Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik (Aug. 2014 – 2019), Graduate Student (Graduated 2019 and joined Prof. I. Procaccia’s group in Weizmann Institute of Science.)
  4. Mrinmoy Mukherjee (Aug. 2014 – 2020), Graduate Student jointly with Dr. J. Mondal. (Graduated 2020 and joined Herbert Levine’s group in Northeastern University)
  5. Kallol Paul (Jan. 2015 – 2022), Graduate Student (Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Juergen Horbach’s group 2022 onwards).
  6. Vishnu Krishnan (August 2017 – 2022), Graduate Student (Graduated 2022, Postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Hajime Tanaka’s group, Tokyo, Japan)
  7. Anoop Mutneja (April 2018 – July 2023) Graduate Student (Submitted thesis July 2023 and joined Prof. Kenneth Schweizer’s group in University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne, USA).
  8. Subhodeep Dey (April 2020 – present) Graduate Student.
  9. Rashmi Priya (April 2021 – present) Graduate Student.
  10. Rishabh Sharma (April 2021 – present) Graduate Student.
  11. Roni Chatterjee (April 2021 – present) Graduate Student.
  12. Surajit Chakraborty (April 2021 – present) Graduate Student jointly with Prof. Kabir Ramola.
  13. Antik Bhattacharya (April 2022 – present) Graduate Student.
  14. Padmanabha Bose (Jan 2023 – present) Graduate Student.

Postdoctoral Fellow Supervised

  1. Jeetu S. Babu (Aug. 2014 – Aug. 2015) (presently an Asst. Professor in Amrita University), Post-Doctoral Student
  2. Ronald Benjamin (Aug. 2016 – Feb. 2018), Post-Doctoral Student jointly with Prof. Surajit Sengupta.
  3. Debarati Sarkar (May 2021 – July 2023) Postdoctoral Fellow
  4. Monoj Adhikari (December 2021 – July 2023) Postdoctoral Fellow (Moved to Prof. Horbach’s group for second Post-Doctoral work in HHU, Dusseldorf, Germany)
  5. Vandana AS (April 2021 – present) Postdoctoral Fellow.