I am a physical chemist who uses optical tools to elucidate the mystery of various biophysical and biochemical processes.
Assistant Professor, BKC College, Kolkata, India (2020-2025)
Post Doc Fellow in New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA (2018-2020)
Post Doc Fellow in IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India (2016-2018)
Phd in Chemistry from IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India (2010-2016)
M.Sc. in Chemistry from IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India (2008-2010)
B.Sc. in Chemistry from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (2005-2008)
Broad area:
Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Microscopy
Specific area:
- Controlling the cell membrane fluidity and its impact on various biological processes
- Applications of Optical Tweezers in the field of Nanotechnology and Microreheology
- Single molecule imaging to study gene expression
- Ultrafast spectroscopy
Two PhD positions are available.
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Ajitesh Singh1, Dipankar Mondal1, Krishna Kant Singh, Deepak Kumar, Debabrata Goswami* (1: Equal Contribution), Unveiling the Role of Molecular Structure in Microscopic Thermodynamics: Insights from Probing Trapped Nanoparticles with Femtosecond Optical Tweezers, 11, e202500033, ChemNanoMat, 2025
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Dipankar Mondal, Sheeba Malik, Pavel Banerjee, Niloy Kundu, Ananya Debnath*, Nilmoni Sarkar*, Modulation of Membrane Fluidity to Control Interfacial Water Structure and Dynamics in Saturated and Unsaturated Phospholipid Vesicles., 36, 12423-12434, Langmuir, 2020
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Niloy Kundu, Dipankar Mondal, Nilmoni Sarkar, Dynamics of the vesicles composed of fatty acids and other amphiphile mixtures: unveiling the role of fatty acids as a model protocell membrane., 12, 1117-1131, Biophysical Reviews, 2020
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Pavel Banerjee, Dipankar Mondal, Meghna Ghosh, Devdeep Mukherjee, Pratyush Kiran Nandi, Tapas Kumar Maiti*, Nilmoni Sarkar*, Selective Self-assembly of 5-Fluorouracil through Non-linear Solvent Response Modulates Membrane Dynamics., 36, 2707-2719, Langmuir, 2020
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Pavel Banerjee, Siddhartha Pal, Niloy Kundu, Dipankar Mondal, Nilmoni Sarkar, Spectroscopic and Microscopic Approach to Monitor the Changes in Bilayer Rigidity during Cell Penetrating Peptide Induced Self-Reproduction of Phospholipid Vesicles, 116, 216a, 63rd annual meeting of Biophysical Society, Bultimore, Maryland, USA, 2019
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Dipankar Mondal, Rupam Dutta, Pavel Banerjee, Devdeep Mukherjee, Tapas Kumar Maiti*, Nilmoni Sarkar*, Modulation of membrane fluidity performed on model phospholipid membrane and live cell membrane: Revealing through spatiotemporal approaches of FLIM, FAIM and TRFS, 91, 4337-4345, Analytical chemistry, 2019
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Dipankar Mondal, Soumendra Nath Bandyopadhyay, Debabrata Goswami*, Elucidating Optical Field Directed Hierarchical Self- assembly of Homogenous versus Heterogenous Nano Clusters with femtosecond optical tweezers., 14, e0223688, PLOS One, 2019
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Dipankar Mondal, Sirshendu Dinda, Soumendra Nath Bandyopadhyay, Debabrata Goswami*, Polarization induced control of optical trap potentials in binary liquids., 9, 700, Scientific Reports, 2019
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Rupam Dutta, Gourhari Jana, Dipankar Mondal, Arghajit Pyne, Sourav Sil, Pratim K Chattaraj*, Nilmoni Sarkar*, The Role of Viscosity on Various Dynamical Processes of Different Fluorophores in Ionic Liquid-Cosolvent Mixtures: A Femtosecond Fluorescence Upconversion Study., 18, 1359-1372, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2018
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Dipankar Mondal, Soumendra Nath Bandyopadhyay, Paresh Mathur, Debabrata Goswami*, On the fly calibrated measure and control of temperature and viscosity at nanoscale remotely., 3, 12304-12311, Acs Omega, 2018
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