Dr. Sudip Kumar Chattopadhyay was born in the small industrial town of Tribeni Tissues in the district of Hooghly, West Bengal. After high school, he attended Chandernagore Government College from where he graduated with Honours in Chemistry. After his Master’s from the University of Burdwan, he moved to Kolkata for his doctoral work in Quantum Chemistry with Professor Debashis Mukherjee at the Department of Physical Chemistry, IACS, Kolkata. He joined Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur (erstwhile BESU, Shibpur) as a Lecturer and now he is Professor (HAG) of the Department of Chemistry. His primary research interest lies in developing new methods to provide a molecular level understanding of correlated electronic structure properties that are critically important in chemistry and physics. His group also attempts to develop new models based on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to address chemical and biological phenomena that are not well understood. He is also interested in finding out techniques that may enable us to elucidate the stochastic processes in gene regulation. His classroom teaching mainly includes courses related to Quantum Mechanics, Spectroscopy, Group Theory, Statistical Mechanics, Surface Chemistry, Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases and Computational Chemistry. He is an avid reader and has a collection of different types of books. He likes to keep himself entertained by juggling between watching movies, reading magazines, and listening to music. Though not a great foodie, he loves traditional sweets of West Bengal and desserts.
“I learned much from my teachers, more from my friends and most from my students".
- Ph. D. (Theoretical Chemistry) from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Under Jadavpur University), Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- M. Sc. (Physical Chemistry) from University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India
- B. Sc. (Hons, Chemistry) from Chandernagore Government College [under University of Burdwan], West Bengal,India
(I) Electronic Structure Theory (Relativistic and Nonrelativistic)
The Chattopadhyay group develops and implements novel relativistic and nonrelativistic electronic structure theories to realize modeling of atomic and molecular structural properties of spectroscopic interest at the quantitative level.
(II) Transport Processes in Condensed Phases
The Chattopadhyay group also develops theoretical model to deal with chemical processes involving interactions between external field and matter, chemical reactions in condensed phases, and transport phenomena in complex physical systems.
(III) Systems Biology
Research in my group also focuses on computational biology mainly on the development of theory and applications of stochastic processes in gene regulation.
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Nandi M., Chattopadhyay, S., Bandyopadhyay, S., and Banik, S. K., Channel assisted noise propagation in a two-step cascade, Chaos [Special issue (Focus): Anomalous Diffusion and Fluctuations in Complex Systems and Networks], 2024
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Chaudhuri, R. K. and Chattopadhyay, S.,, Geometrical structure and stability of buckminsterfullerene complexes containing mono- and poly-atomic molecules, 135, 69, Journal of Chemical Sciences (Invited Article, Special Issue on Interplay of Structure and Dynamics in Reaction Pathways, Chemical Reactivity and Biological Systems), 2023
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Roy, T. S., Nandi, M. Chattopadhyay, S. and Banik, S. K., Inter-play of degeneracy and non-degeneracy in fluctuations propagation in coherent feed-forward loop motif, 093502, J. Stats. Mech., 2023
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Chaudhuri, R. K. and Chattopadhyay, S., Theoretical investigations of electronic spectra of silver atom using all-electron scalar relativistic basis, 12, 125019, AIP Advances, 2022
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Chattopadhyay, S., Single-Root Multireference Brillouin-Wigner Perturbative Approach to Excitation Energies, 6, 1668-1686, ACS Omega, 2021
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Chaudhuri, R. K. and Chattopadhyay, S., Description of the Methylene Amidogene Radical and Its Anion with an Economical Treatment of Correlation Effects Using Density Functional Theory Orbitals, 125, 543-558, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021
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Chaudhuri, R. K. and Chattopadhyay, S., A Fock space coupled cluster based probing of the single- and double-ionization profiles for the poly-cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and conjugated polyenes, 154, 114106, Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021
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Sharma, A., Chattopadhyay, S., and Sinha, D., Exploring the spectroscopic constants of 2u , 2u Main and Satellite, and 2g and states of N2+ ion through the window of eigenvalue independent partitioning: A Fock space coupled cluster approach [SPECIAL ISSUE IN HONOUR OF JÜRGEN GAUSS], 118, e1774673, Molecular Physics, 2020
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Manna, S., Chaudhuri, R. K. and Chattopadhyay, S., Taming the Excited States of Butadiene, Hexatriene and Octatetraene using State Specific Multireference Perturbation Theory with Density Functional Theory Orbitals, 152, 244105, Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020
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Manna, S., Sinha Ray, S., Ghos, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Structural properties and isomerization of simple S-nitrosothiols: Ab initio studies with a simplified treatment of correlation effects, 118, e1641639., Molecular Physics, 2020