Dwaipayan has come from the University of Cambridge, where he held Marie Curie and Earnest Oppenheimer Fellowships to develop compuational methods for studying colloidal systems.
Dwaipayan moves from the Department of Chemistry at the University Cambridge, where he held an Earnest Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship (2008-11), following a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship (2006-08). During his time at Cambridge he worked in the field of computational modelling of colloidal systems, collaborating with the group of Prof. David Wales. He obtained a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2006, having studied slow dynamics in soft matter systems employing coarse-grained models in computer simulations. Following a brief stint in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi as an Assistant Professor (2011-12), he returned to Cambridge en route to a Birmingham Fellowship at the University of Birmingham. Exploring and exploiting chiral superstructures has been a focal point of his post-doctoral research, which has also contributed to the development of a comprehensive computational framework for surveying the underlying potential energy surface of a molecular system.
The focus of his current research is on developing computational methods for designing novel structures via self- or directed-assembly. With a broader perspective, he is interested in understanding physical principles of self-assembly in a wide spectrum of condensed matter, especially soft matter, in order to exploit them in the context of materials science.
