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Prof. Dr. Anupam Sengupta
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| Fakultät oder Zentrum | Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften, Technologie und Medizin | ||||||||
| Department | Fachbereich Physik und Materialwissenschaften | ||||||||
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Campus Limpertsberg, Université du Luxembourg 162 A, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg |
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| Büroadresse | BS 3.08B | ||||||||
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| Telefon | (+352) 46 66 44 6733 | ||||||||
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| Gesprochene Sprachen | English, German, Hindi, Bengali | ||||||||
| Forschungsaufenthalte in | Germany, Slovenia, USA, Switzerland | ||||||||
Anupam Sengupta joined the University of Luxembourg in May 2018 as an ATTRACT Fellow, kicking off experimental biophysics research activities within the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit (PHYMS). Anupam is supported with the prestigious FNR ATTRACT Starting Investigator Grant for his proposal "MBRACE - Microbial Biophysics of Rapid Adaptation in Changing Environments".
Out of ten proposals received in the framework of the ATTRACT call 2016/17, the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) selected Anupam Sengupta as Starting Investigator, allocating a total budget of 1.5 million euros to his project MBRACE (see FNR article published in 2017).
Anupam heads the Physics of Living Matter Group, interfacing research activities between the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit (PHYMS), the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) and the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH). Using a cross-disciplinary approach, Anupam’s team studies biological processes and systems under changing environments, with a particular focus on the role of geometry, order and topology in living matter.
Anupam holds a Dual Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India. He received PhD in Physics for his work on Liquid Crystal Microfluidics, carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization Göttingen (MPG), Germany (2009-2012). After a brief postdoc stay in Göttingen, Anupam moved to MIT, USA as a Human Frontiers Cross-Disciplinary Fellow to work on biophysical processes in marine environments. Since fall 2015, he was based at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. In addition to microbial ecology (on Earth), Anupam studies the behaviour of microorganisms in zero and hyper gravity conditions (using parabolic flights). He is an enthusiastic educator, and regularly organises scientific workshops and outreach activities at the interface of physics, biology and engineering.
More information: https://sites.google.com/site/anupamsengupta
FNR Luxembourg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0ibLGXBuoA
TEDx University of Luxembourg:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_dQ0RePpJ8
ATTRACT Fellow, People behind the science:https://www.fnr.lu/research-with-impact-fnr-highlight/fnr-attract-fellows-anupam-sengupta/
Last updated on: Mittwoch, den 23. Februar 2022
02/2021-
Program Director, Bachelor of Physics Program, University of Luxembourg
05/2018 -
Head of the Physics of Living Matter Group
ATTRACT Fellow, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg
Professor within the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit , University of Luxembourg
01/2014 - 05/2018
Cross-Disciplinary Fellow, Human Frontier Science Program
Environmental Microfluidics Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
01/2013 - 12/2013
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization, Göttingen, Germany
06/2009 - 12/2012
PhD in Physics, summa cum laude
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization, Göttingen, Germany
PhD Thesis: Nematic Liquid Crystals and Nematic Colloids in Microfluidic Environment
08/2008 - 05/2009
Application Engineer
FMP Technology GmbH, Erlangen, Germany
07/2003 - 07/2008
Dual Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Last updated on: 23 Feb 2022
- ATTRACT Starting Investigator Grant, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg, 07/2017
- Young Scientists and the Future: Documentaries by NATURE, 09/2015
- 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Interdisciplinary Sciences, Lindau, Germany, 07/2015 (upon nomination by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization)
- Invited Young Scientist: Discover Research in Baden Württemberg, BW-i, Germany, 07/2015
- Glenn H. Brown Prize, International Liquid Crystal Society, 2014
- Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship, Human Frontiers in Science Program, 2014 - 2017
- DFG Research Fellowship, German Science Foundation, 2014 - 2016 (gratefully declined/retracted)
- Global Young Scientists Summit, National Research Foundation Singapore, 01/2014 (gratefully declined)
- Berliner-Ungewitter Prize, University of Göttingen, 2013
- Springer Thesis Award for outstanding doctoral thesis, 2013
- Outstanding doctoral research award, Convocation of the University of Göttingen, 2013
- summa cum laude for PhD thesis, Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen, 12/2012
- ITN ' HIERARCHY' Fellowship, Marie Curie Actions, 2009 - 2012
- Invited internship to Erlangen, Germany, 05/2007 - 07 /2007
- Merit-cum-Means scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 2003 - 2007
- Certificate of Excellence in community service, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 2006 and 2007
- Amiable Leadership Award of the class of 1999, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar, 1999
Last updated on: 30 Mai 2018
- Göttinger Tageblatt: "Holzscheite, Smarties und Kristalle schichten", 12/2011
- Deutsche Welle: "Brain Gain: You have to travel as a young scientist", 07/2015
- Nature: "Young scientists and the future", 09/2015
- Human Frontier Science Program: "A tryst with the sky for a peek into the sea", 2016
- Luxemburger Wort: "Le covid n'aime ni le cuivre, ni la chaleur", 05/2020
- Luxembourger Wort : Le covid n'aime ni le cuivre, ni la chaleur ” :https://www.wort.lu/fr/luxembourg/le-covid-n-aime-ni-le-cuivre-ni-la-chaleur-5ec7bf25da2cc1784e35e48d, 05/2020
- TEDx University of Luxembourg: “Why microbes are crucial in tackling the climate crisis?”:http://tedxuniversityofluxembourg.com/2018/2020/09/15/introducing-our-speaker-anupam-sengupta/, 10/2020
- Covid research at University of Luxembourg: “COVID Research at uni.lu supported by CINVEN”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qpH1VKRXQQ, 09/2021
Last updated on: 23 Feb 2022
2023
Drying of Bio-colloidal Sessile Droplets: Advances, Applications, and Perspectives; ;
in Advances in Colloid and Interface Science (2023)
2022
Self-regulation of phenotypic noise synchronizes emergent organization and active transport in confluent microbial environments; ; ; ;
in Nature Physics (2022)
Curvature in Biological Systems: Its quantification, Emergence and Implications Across the Scales; ; ; ;
in Advanced Materials (2022)
Active reconfiguration of cytoplasmic lipid droplets governs migration of nutrient-limited phytoplankton; ; ; ; ;
in Science Advances (2022), 8(44), 1-16
Spatio-temporal programming of lyotropic phase transition in nanoporous microfluidic confinements;
E-print/Working paper (2022)
2021
Bistability in oxidative stress response determines the migration behavior of phytoplankton in turbulence; ; ; ;
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2021), 118(5), 2005944118
Trade-offs in phenotypic noise synchronize emergent topology to actively enhance transport in microbial environments; ; ; ;
E-print/Working paper (2021)
Surface anchoring mediates bifurcation in nematic microflows within cylindrical capillaries; ;
in Physics of Fluids (2021), 33(072005), 072005-1-072005-13
Novel optofluidic concepts enabled by topological microfluidicsin EPJ Web of Conferences (2021), 255(10002), 1-6
Active reconfiguration of cytoplasmic lipid droplets governs migration of nutrient-limited phytoplankton; ; ; ; ;
E-print/Working paper (2021)
Time dependent lyotropic chromonic textures in PDMS-based microfluidic confinements; ;
in Crystals (2021), 11(1),
Time dependent lyotropic chromonic textures in PDMS-based microfluidic confinements; ;
in Crystals (2021), 11(1), 35
2020
Liquid Crystals at Interfaces and Under Flow: Recent Advances and Trends;
in Sengupta, Anupam; Mazza, Marco G (Eds.) Liquid Crystals at Interfaces and Under Flow: Recent Advances and Trends (2020)
2019
Emergent biaxiality in nematic microflows illuminated by a laser beam; ; ; ;
in Molecular Physics (2019), 117(23-24), 3715-3733
Dark aerobic sulfide oxidation by anoxygenic phototrophs in anoxic waters of lake Cadagnoin Environmental Microbiology (2019)
Mono-to-multilayer transition in growing bacterial colonies; ; ;
in Physical Review Letters (2019), 123(17-25),
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