Dr. Debabrata Deb

Associate Professor

Specialization

Computational Physics, Soft Matter, Statistical Mechanics.

Email

debabrata.deb@thapar.edu

Specialization

Computational Physics, Soft Matter, Statistical Mechanics.

Email

debabrata.deb@thapar.edu

Area:

  • Self-oscillating polymer gel

  • Classical nucleation theory in model colloidal system

  • Phase transformation in liquid-crystal

  • Corrosion in solid material

  • Equilibrium phase transitions in model colloidal system

  • Ordering, Clustering in binary colloidal system

  • Out of equilibrium systems: self-organized criticality

 

Biography

 

Academics

1995, Secondary Examination (10), Assam Board of Secondary Education, India

1997, Higher Secondary Examination(10+2), Assam Higher Secondary Education Council, India

2000, B.Sc. in Physics Honors, Assam University, India, University Rank: 4th

2002, Postgraduate Diploma in Software Engineering, Rabindra Bharati University, India

2005, M.Sc. in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

2009, PhD in Physics from Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria

Work Experience

Jun. - Aug. 2006Junior Research Fellowat Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Aug. - Nov. 2006Junior Research Fellowat Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India

Feb.2010-Jan.2012Post-Doctoral Fellowat Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Mar.2012-Feb.2014Post-Doctoral Research Associateat University of Pittsburgh, USA

Aug.2014-Jul.2015Assistant Professorof Physics, Lovely Professional University, India

Jul.2015-Till. DateAssistant Professorof Physics, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India

Research Projects

Substrate mediated phase transition in two-dimensional liquid crystal systems (Sole PI), SERB, DST, India

Publications and other Research Outputs

Popular Articles

SCI

Review Articles

Book Chapters

Awards and Honours

  • PhD studentship from FWF Austria , 2006-2009
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship from DPG Germany, 2010-2012
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship from AFOSR and University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2012-2014
  • Selected as Category B speaker for the Theoretical Physics Seminar Circuit (TPSC), India, 2017

Description of Research Interests

We use computational techniques to solve problems that are related to soft materials (such as colloids, liquid crystals, polymers etc.). We use classical statistical mechanics as the central tool for most of our work.

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