Anupam received the ATTRACT Starting Investigator Grant 2016-17 for his project MBRACE - Microbial Biophysics of Rapid Adaptation in Changing Environments - with Jan Lagerwall as the local promotor. 

Anupam Sengupta will join the University of Luxembourg starting in the summer 2018 as an Assistant Professor in the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, MBRACE will interface physics, biology, mathematics and engineering to study biological systems under changing environments, with a particular focus on order and topology inherent in living matter. Anupam holds a Dual Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He received a PhD in Physics for the thesis on Liquid Crystal Microfluidics, which he carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization, Göttingen, Germany 2009-2012. After a short postdoc in Göttingen, Anupam moved to MIT as a Human Frontiers Cross-Disciplinary Fellow to work on biophysical processes in marine environments. Since fall 2015, he is based at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Here, in addition to marine ecology, Anupam works on microbial behaviour under low and hyper gravity conditions, and looks at bacterial dynamics in natural and nature-inspired ecosystems.

Link to Anupam Sengupta’s website: https://sengupta.mit.edu

We hope to have future collaborations with him & his group once he arrives to Luxembourg!





/written by Anupam, with edits by CGR & JL/