Shiladitya Banerjee

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, Syracuse University (2013)

B.Sc. (Honors) in Physics, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India (2008)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago (2013-2016)

Honors & Awards

American Physical Society Early Career Award in Biological Physics (2024)
Soft Matter Emerging Investigator, Soft Matter journal (2022)
Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA), NIH (2021)
Royal Society University Research Fellow (2018)
Young Investigator Award, Human Frontier Science Program (2018)
EPSRC New Investigator Award (2018)
UCL Global Engagement Award (2017)
American Physical Society Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Biological Physics (2014)
Kadanoff-Rice Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago (2013).
All-University Doctoral Prize, Syracuse University (2013)
Gold Medal for Excellence, Chennai Mathematical Institute (2008)

Research

Physics of Living Systems: Cell and Tissue mechanics, Collective cell dynamics, Cytoskeletal dynamics, Bacterial physiology, Learning and adaptation.

Papers

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