Dr. Aniruddha Chakraborty

• Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Science, Karnataka, India, 1997-2004 (6.5 yrs.).

 

• M.Sc.: University College of Science, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, 1995-97 (2 yrs.).

 

• B.Sc.: Vivekananda College, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, 1992-95 (3 yrs.).
  

 

• Higher Secondary: Barisha High School, West Bengal, India, 1990-92 (2 yrs.).

 

• Secondary: Barisha High School, West Bengal, India, 1984-90 (6 yrs.).

 

• Primary: St. Elizabeth Girl's School, West Bengal, India, 1980-84 (4 yrs.).

 

• Kinder Garden: St. Elizabeth School, West Bengal, India, 1979-80 (1 yr.).

 

 

 

Research Achievements:

 

• The standard model for chemical reactions in solution would be a particle executing one-dimensional random walk on a harmonic potential, in presence of a point sink, located at an arbitrary position. An exact time domain solution to this model was proposed by us. This has been an unsolved problem for long time  and is of considerable importance as a model for chemical reaction in solution.

• Two sate model for diffusion-reaction system deals with one dimensional random walk on two  potential wells in presence of coupling between them. Exact Laplace domain solution of this model for point-like coupling between two potentials was proposed by us. This is an interesting & very important work in this field. Very recently we have proposed  an exact time domain solution of this same model, which was so far considered to be analytically intractable.



 Teaching Achievements:

 

• More than 1150 lectures are given to ~1500 students of different areas of sciences & engineering with average TCF 4.4/5.0. Total 33 courses were offered, these includes theory courses, Laboratory courses as well as project-based courses.
• Established B. Tech. Chemsitry Laboratory in 2010, this was the first fully functional teaching laboratory in IIT Mandi.
  

 

 

 Awards/Honours:

 

1. 'Teaching Honour Roll' award at the Institute's Teacher's Day Celebration, 2018 (IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India).
2. 'Foundation day' award for excellence in research at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India 2016.
3. 'Foundation day' award for excellence in teaching at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India 2013.
4. 'Foundation day' award for excellence in teaching & research at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India 2011.
5. IUPAC Young Chemist Award (Progm. B), by the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 2009.
   



 

 Invited Lectures (2015 -):

 

1. 3^rd North West Meeting on Spectroscopy, Structure and Dyamics at IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, 2019. 
2. 8^th Asia-Pacific Conference of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2017.
3. 15^th Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 2016.
4. Recent Advances in Theoretical Chemistry,  IISc., Bangalore, India, 2016.
5. Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Mohali, Punjab, India, 2016.
6. Centre for Theoretical Studies, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, 2016.



 

Mentoring of Students:

 

Mentored a large number of students (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics & Engineering), at various levels and most of them have continued in research.

1. Number of students at Doctoral level: 7 (one has graduated, two will be graduating soon).
2. Total 23 students at the Masters level (thesis). Almost all have continued to do their Ph.D..
3. Total 56 students at the Bachelor & Master's level for internship or project work. Again most have continued to do research.

 

 

 

Science Education:

 

Dr. Chakraborty is very active in promoting science Education. This includes giving talks at various levels to students, and writing articles at a level that can be understood by under graduate and post graduate students. Theoretical chemistry is not a very popular subject in Himachal Pradesh. For making theoretical chemistry popular in HImachal Pradesh, Dr. Chakraborty has taken a large number of students from Himachal Pradesh for internships.



 

 

Selected from Recent Publications:

1. Buckled Nanorod - Dynamics of a two state system treated with an exact Hamiltonian. J. Dehning & A. Chakraborty, Chem. Phys. Lett., 636, 193 (2015).
   
2. Exact Solution of time dependent Schrodinger equation for two state problem in Laplace domain. Diwaker & A. Chakraborty, Chem. Phys. Lett., 638, 133 (2015).
3. Long Range Electron Transfer Reactions in Solution: An Analytically Solvable Model. Diwaker & A. Chakraborty, Chem. Phys., 459, 19 (2015).
4. Curve Crossing induced dissociation: An analytically solvable model. Diwaker & A. Chakraborty, Spectrochim. Acta A, 151, 510 (2015).
   
5. Exact Solution of Schrodinger equation for two state problem with time dependent coupling. Diwaker, B. Panda & A. Chakraborty, Physica A, 442, 380 (2016).
6. Rattling motion of proton through five membered aromatic ring systems, S. Chamoli & A. Chakraborty, Comput. Theor. Chem., 1183, 112825 (2020).
   
7. Exploring the role of relaxation time, bond length and length of the polymer chain in the kinetics of end-to-end looping of a long polymer chain. An analytically solvable model, M. Ganguly & A. Chakraborty, Chem. Phys. Lett. 733, 136673 (2019).
8. Exact diffusion dynamics of a Gaussian distribution in a two state system. R. Saravanan & A. Chakraborty, Chem. Phys. Lett.,  731, 136567 (2019).
9. Reaction-diffusion approach to electronic relaxation in solution: simple derivation for delta function sink, S. Mudra & A. Chakraborty, Chem. Phys. Lett.,751,137531 (2020).
10. Some exact time-domain results related to reversible reaction-diffusion systems, R. Saravanan* and A. Chakraborty, Chem. Phys., 539, 110955 (2020).



 

Ongoing Externally Funded Projects:

 

1. Curve Crossing Problems with Arbitrary Coupling, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, India, INR. 7,54,400.
2. Electron solvation by a layer of polar adsorbates - realistic model, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, India, INR. 3,96,000.

 

Teaching Courses:

 

Has taught a variety of topics in Chemistry and relared areas at the Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. level, for 10 years. Given below are the titles of the courses that have been taught:

1. M. Sc. Chemistry Core Courses: Group Theory - Spectroscopy, Advanced Quantum Chemistry, 'Reaction Dynamics, Kinetics & Catalysis', Computational Chemistry & Mathematics for Chemists.
2. B. Tech. Courses: English (core), Design Practicum (core), Fundamental Chemistry (core), Engineering Chemistry (core), Laboratory Chemistry (core), Molecular Thermodynamics (elective), Physics behind computer (elective), Molecular Spectroscopy (elective), Nanoscience (elective), Food Chemistry (elective) & Interdisciplinary Socio-Technical Practicum.
3. Ph.D. courses: Introduction to theoretical chemistry (elective).

 

Other Achievements:

 

• Dr. Chakraborty, as the chair of IC course interest group, reformulated B. Tech. curriculum by introducing appropriate baskets for different IC courses (2019).



 

 

Other Responsibilities (2015 -): 

 

1. Vice-chair ( February, 2019 - September, 2019) of JEE Cell of IIT Mandi.
2. Member, School of Basic Sciences, IIT Mandi website committee (2018 - 2020).
3. Advisor of "Society for Collaborative Research & Innovation", IIT Mandi  (2018 - ).
4. Chair, School Seminar Committee, School of Basic Sciences, IIT Mandi (2015-20).
5. Member, course interest group of  I-Ph. D. & M.Sc. (Physics) Courses (2016 - 2020) of IIT Mandi.
6. Member, course interest group of B. Tech. core courses (2016-17) of IIT Mandi.
7. Member, course interest group of M. Sc. Chemistry progm. (2017 -) of IIT Mandi.
8. Chair, course interest group of M. Sc. Chemistry Progm. (2015-18) of IIT Mandi.
   
9. Chair of Class Committee Meetings for B. Tech. 2nd year courses (2012-17) of IIT Mandi.
10. Member, senate of IIT Mandi (2012--2020).
11. Member, 'Board of Academics' (2015 - ) of IIT Mandi.
12. Faculty Adviser of  M. Sc., Chemistry (2016 - 18) batch of IIT Mandi.
13. Course Coordinator of Institute Core Courses (2017 - ) of IIT Mandi.
14. Course Coordinator of M. Sc., Chemistry (2015 - 18) – progm. of IIT Mandi.
15. Active Reviewer of Phys. Rev E, Chem. Phys. Lett., 'Chaos, Solitons & Fractals', J. Mol. Struc., Phys. Lett. A, Int. J. Quant. Chem., RSC Adv. & ChemistrySelect.