Purba Chatterjee

(2015 - present) Ph.D candidate, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, U.S.A.
(2013 - 2015) M.Sc. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India.
(2010 - 2013) B.Sc. Physics, St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, New Delhi, India. Current : Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics, UIUC.
Advisor : Professor Nigel Goldenfeld.
Topic : Non-equilibrium Phase transitions in active matter and ecology.
Past Research Experience :
Project title: "Work Statistics in the Kitaev Model on a Honeycomb Lattice"
Supervisor: Professor Amit Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Kanpur, India.

Project title: "The XY Model: Scaling of Fidelity in the Thermodynamic Limit."
Supervisor: Professor Amit Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Kanpur, India.

Project title: "Olfaction in Insects."
Supervisor: Professor Antonio Celani, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.

Project title: "Dynamo Instabilities in Rotating Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence."
Supervisor: Dr. Samriddhi Sankar Ray, International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Bangalore, India.

Project title: "Mathematical Treatment of Systems Away from Thermal Equilibrium."
Supervisor: Professor Gautam Menon, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India.

Project title: "Interplay Between Mechanics and Biochemistry in the Context of Budding from Cellular Membranes".
Supervisor: Professor Madan Rao, National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India.

(2020, spring) Drickamer Research Fellowship for outstanding achievement in thesis research.
(2019, fall) University Fellowship for outstanding research accomplishments.
(2019, fall) List of exceptional teachers, PHYS213/214, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(2018, fall) List of outstanding teachers, PHYS213/214, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(2017) Travel Award, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(2017, spring) List of exceptional teachers, PHYS213/214, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(2016, spring) List of exceptional teachers, PHYS213/214, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(2010-2015) INSPIRE scholarship for meritorious students, Government of India.
(2014) S.N. Bhatt Memorial Excellence Fellowship Program, International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR).
(2012) Summer Research Fellowship Program, Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS). Languages: C/C++, java, Fortran, python.
Others: Latex, mathematica.