Biography

Dr. Bhattacharya earned his undergraduate degree (BS – Physics Honors) from Presidency College, Kolkata, MS (Physics) from University College of Science, Kolkata, India, and received his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter Physics from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1992.  He held positions as a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State University, and as a research associate and research assistant professor at Michigan State University, before joining UCF in 2000, where he is a professor in the physics department.

Research Areas

Scaling theory & simulation studies soft matter systems, polymer & biologically inspired physics, DNA transport through protein and synthetic nanopores for genome wide mapping, confined biopolymers in nano- channels and in a crowded environment, physics of intrinsically disordered proteins implicated in disease & and engineered new soft materials for biomedical applications

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