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Nationality
  
Indian

Residence
  
Role
  
Scientist

Name
  
Charusita Chakravarty


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Born
  
May 5, 1964 (age 59) Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. (
1964-05-05
)

Institutions
  
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Notable awards
  
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award (2009)

Alma mater
  
University of Delhi, University of Cambridge

Fields
  
Chemistry, Chemical physics

Doctoral advisor
  
Prof. D. C. Clary, FRS


Similar
  
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Computational methods for the study of nucleation by Charusita Chakravarty


Charusita Chakravarty (1964 - 2016) was an Indian academic and scientist. She was a professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi since 1999. In 2009 she was conferred Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in the field of Chemical Science. In 1999, she received B.M. Birla Science Award. She was an Associate Member of the Centre for Computational Material Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.

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Research fields

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Chakravarty has been working in the following fields—

  • Theoretical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
  • Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Structure and Dynamics of Liquids
  • Water and Hydration
  • Nucleation
  • Self-assembly
  • Personal life and Education

    Chakravarty was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She did her B.Sc. Chemistry program from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. She then went to Cambridge University to do her last two years of Natural Science Tripos. She did her Ph.D. from Cambridge in quantum scattering and spectroscopy with David Clary.

    Selected publications

    Here is a list of selected publications and collaborative research works where Chakravarty has worked—

    1. Agarwal, M., Singh, M., Jabes, S. B., and Charusita Chakravarty, Excess entropy scaling of transport properties in network-forming ionic melts (SiO2 and BeF2). J. Chem. Phys. 2011, 134, 014502
    2. Sharma, R., Agarwal, M. and Charusita, C. Estimating the entropy of liquids from atom-atom radial distribution functions: silica, beryllium fluoride and water. Mol. Phys. 2008, 106, 1925.
    3. Agarwal, M. and Chakravarty, C. Waterlike structural and excess entropy anomalies in liquid beryllium fluoride. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 13294.
    4. Sharma, R., Nath, Chakraborty, S. N. and Charusita C. Entropy, Diffusivity and Structural Order in Liquids with Water-like Anomalies. J. Chem. Phys. 2006, 125, 204501.
    5. Mudi, A.; Chakravarty,C. Multiple Time-scale Behaviour of the Hydrogen Bond Network in Water. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 19607.

    Awards

  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2009)
  • B.M. Birla Science Award (1999)
  • Indian National Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists (1996)
  • Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award of Indian National Science Academy (1999)
  • Fellowship of Indian Academy of Sciences (2006)
  • Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (India) (2004)
  • References

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