Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics & Biophysics

M.Sc.: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Ph.D.: Caltech

Office: 353 BioPhysics
Phone: 508-793-7175
Email: ranjan@clarku.edu

Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor in Physics, is a condensed matter theorist whose major research interests have shifted to problems at the interface between physics and biology. He is fascinated by the mysteries of life at the meso-scale; the central goal of his biophysical research is to uncover the physical and organizational principles that arise at scales between atoms and organisms. His recent research activities include computing shape transformations of red blood cells, understanding the remarkable properties of biomimetic liquid cyrstalline gels, statistical mechanics of RNA folding, and stability and noise in biochemical and genetic networks. He received his M.Sc. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1998, and did postdoctoral work at Simon Fraser University and the University of Pennsylvania. He spent two years at NEC Laboratories in Princeton before joining Clark in 2003.

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