Biographical notes
I was awarded B.Sc (Honors in Physics) and the P.N. Sinha prize (University Gold Medal) by the University of Burdwan (India), and M.Sc.(Physics) from the same institution. After post graduation, I worked as a CSIR junior and senior research fellow at S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences in Calcutta/Kolkata (India) and obtained my PhD (in January 2000) for working on electronic-structure calculations of random alloys and surfaces with late Prof. Abhijit Mookerjee . After submitting my thesis, I spent a semester in Prof. Michael Schrieber's group at the Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany), working on Anderson localization in binary disordered lattices.
I, subsequently, held a research fellowship from the Netherlands' Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and worked with Prof. Gerard Barkema and late Prof. Werner van der Weg at the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Debye Institute in Utrecht University, respectively. This was followed by a short stint at the University of Nottingham (UK) in Prof. Michael Swift's group, where I was mainly interested in the dynamics of granular materials. My transatlantic postdoctoral years were spent in Prof. David Drabold's group at Athens (Ohio), working on a range of topics on disordered materials, from structural modeling of noncrystalline materials using first-principles density-functional simulations and applications of the maximum-entropy principle in electronic-structure calculations to electron-phonon interactions in amorphous solids.
I moved to Leipzig (Germany) in 2005 to work with Prof. Dr. Jörg Kärger and PD Dr. Siegfried Fritzsche for studying diffusion in complex materials, such as zeolites and glasses. After spending a year in Saxony, I returned to the USA in 2006 to accept a tenure-track position in the University of Southern Mississippi. In 2014, I spent a semester as Robert and Renes' Glidden Visiting Professor of Physics in Ohio University. This was followed by a stint as an NSF-IMRI fellow in Prof. Elliott's group at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge (UK) in 2015. Currently, I am Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Southern Mississippi.