Moumita Das is an Indian-American physicist specializing in soft matter and statistical mechanics research. She is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Life

Das earned a B.S. and M.S. from Jadavpur University.[1] She received a Ph.D. in physics from the Indian Institute of Science in 2005.[1] Her dissertation was titled, Ordering, Stochasticity, and Rheology in Sheared and Confined Complex Fluids.[1] Sriram Ramaswamy was her dissertation supervisor.[1] From 2004 to 2005, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences working under mentor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan.[1] She was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles under Alex J. Levine from 2005 to 2006.[1] From 2007 to 2011, Das researched as a VENI fellow at the school of physics and astronomy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with Frederick C. MacKintosh.[1]

Das joined Syracuse University as a senior scientist in the department of physics in 2011.[1] She researches soft matter and statistical mechanics.[2] In 2012, she became an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the Rochester Institute of Technology.[1] Das was promoted to associate professor in 2018 and professor in 2023.[1] In 2024, she was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Das, Moumita (2023). "CV". Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  2. ^ "Moumita Das". RIT. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  3. ^ Radzinski, Mollie (January 2, 2024). "RIT's Moumita Das elected as American Physical Society fellow". RIT. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
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