Sakuntala Chatterjee
    Professor, SNBNCBS
   







   sakuntala.chatterjee@bose.res.in
   www.bose.res.in
   Telephone +91-33-2335 5706/07/08 (extn: 448)
 

Educational Background:

  • PhD from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai in 2007
  • M.Sc. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2001
  • B.Sc. from Scottish Church College, Kolkata in 1999

Professional Background:

  • Faculty Member, S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences (November 2011 - present)
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Technion, Israel(October 2009 - September 2011)
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Research Centre Juelich, Germany(June 2007 - September 2009)

Research Interests:

  • Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics: Driven Diffusive Systems, Phase Ordering, Passive Scalar Advection, Statics and Dynamics of Shocks in Nonequilibrium Systems, Exact Solution for Interacting Particle Systems using Bethe Ansatz, Work Fluctuation Theorems in NonequilibriumSystems with Dissipation, Interacting Particle System with Time-periodic Drive

  • Reaction and Diffusion in Microporous Solids: Single-file Diffusion inside Zeolite Channel, Molecular Traffic Control and Reactivity Enhancement in Catalysts

  • Biological Systems: Bacterial Chemotaxis and Dynamics of Biofilaments

  Significant Recent Publications:

  • Effect of relative timescale on a system of particles sliding on a fluctuating energy landscape: Exact derivation of product measure condition, by Chandradip Khamrai and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Phys. Rev. E 109, 054125 (2024).
  • Optimum transport in systems with time-dependent drive and short-ranged interactions, by Deepsikha Das, Punyabrata Pradhan, and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Phys. Rev. E 108, 034107 (2023)
  • Short time extremal response to step stimulus for a single cell E. coli, by Sakuntala Chatterjee, J Stat Mech, 123503 (2022).
  • Effect of receptor cooperativity on methylation dynamics in bacterial chemotaxis with weak and strong gradient, by Shobhan Dev Mandal and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Phys Rev E 105, 014411 (2022).

  • Effect of receptor clustering on chemotactic performance of E. coli: Sensing versus adaptation, by Shobhan Dev Mandal and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Phys. Rev. E Letters 103, L030401 (2021).

  • Dynamics of coupled modes for sliding particles on a fluctuating landscape, by Shauri Chakraborty, Sakuntala Chatterjee, and Mustansir Barma, Phys. Rev. E 100, 042117 (2019)

  • Interplay between surface and bending energy helps membrane protrusion formation, by Raj Kumar Sadhu and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Phys. Rev. E Rapid Comm 100, 020401(R) (2019)

  • Actin filaments pushing against a barrier: Comparison between two force generation mechanisms, by Raj Kumar Sadhu and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Eur Phys J E 42, 15 (2019)

  • Run-and-tumble motion with steplike responses to a stochastic input, by Subrata Dev and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Phys. Rev. E 99, 012402 (2019)

 
  • Current reversal in interacting colloids under time-periodic drive, by Shubhashis Rana, Sanchari Goswami, Sakuntala Chatterjee and Punyabrata Pradhan, Phys Rev E 98, 052142 (2018)
  • Optimal methylation noise for best chemotactic performance of E. coli, by Subrata Dev and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Phys Rev E 97, 032420 (2018)

  • Actin filaments growing against an elastic membrane: Effect of membrane tension, by Raj Kumar Sadhu and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Phys Rev E 97, 032408 (2018)
  • Ordered phases in coupled nonequilibrium systems: dynamic properties, by Shauri Chakraborti, Sakuntala Chatterjee and Mustansir Barma, Phys Rev E 96, 022128 (2017)
  • Ordered phases in coupled nonequilibrium systems: static properties, by Shauri Chakraborti, Sakuntala Chatterjee and Mustansir Barma, Phys Rev E 96, 022127 (2017)

  • Actin filaments growing against a barrier with fluctuating shape by Rajkumar Sadhu and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Phys Rev E 93,062414 (2016)

  • Symmetric exclusion process on a ring with moving defects by Rakesh Chatterjee, Sakuntala Chatterjee and Punyabrata Pradhan, Phys Rev E 93, 062124 (2016)

  • Large compact clusters and fast dynamics in coupled nonequilibrium systems by Shauri Chakraborty, Sukla Pal, Sakuntala Chatterjee and Mustansir Barma, Phys Rev E 93, 050102(R) (2016)

  • Optimal Search in E.coli Chemotaxis by Subrata Dev and Sakuntala Chatterjee, Phys Rev E 91, 042714 (2015)

  • Boundary induced phase transition with stochastic entrance and exit by Mithun K Mitra and Sakuntala Chatterjee, J Stat Mech P10019 (2014)

  • Interacting particles in a periodically moving potential: traveling wave and transport" by Rakesh Chatterjee, Sakuntala Chatterjee, Punyabrata Pradhan and S.S. Manna, Phys Rev E 89, 022138 (2014)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
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