Dwaipayan Chakrabarti

Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti is an Associate Professor in Soft Matter in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham, where he is currently holding a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. He is also a Visiting Academic at Hiroshima University with affiliation to the International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM²). He has held several prestigious research fellowships since his PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, including a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship and an Ernest Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, a Ramanujan Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and a Royal Society Short Industry Fellowship in partnership with IBM (Hursley) at the University of Birmingham. Dwaipayan leads a state-of-the-art research programme at the interface of soft matter and advanced materials, with a focus on the design and development of soft advanced materials for a sustainable future, using his expertise in computation and theory. He is especially interested in exploring and exploiting the self-assembly of a variety of building blocks across length scales from the molecular to the micron. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Taylor & Francis journal Liquid Crystals.