Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

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Prof. Ujal Halder

Technical Superintendent

Contact Information

Office:

Room 101, Physics Building

Phone:

+91-3222-283850

Email:

ujal@cts.iitkgp.ac.in

Broad Research Areas

  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Soft Matter Physics
  • Biophysics

Biography

Prof. Sanjay Banerjee is the current Head of the Department of Physics. His research spans statistical mechanics, soft matter, and biological physics. He received his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Cambridge. He has published over 150 papers and received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.

Research Interests

  • Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
  • Active matter and collective behavior
  • Polymer physics and dynamics
  • Physics of biological membranes

Publications (Selected)

Universal Scaling in Active Polymer Networks

S. Banerjee, A. Ghosh, P. Sen

Physical Review Letters, 2023

Dynamics of Membrane-Protein Interactions in Living Cells

S. Banerjee, R. Das

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022

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