Nationality Indian Role Scientist | Name Charusita Chakravarty | |
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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 Darshan Ranganathan, Asima Chatterjee, Seetha Coleman Kammula |
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.
Contents
- Computational methods for the study of nucleation by Charusita Chakravarty
- Research fields
- Personal life and Education
- Selected publications
- Awards
- References

Research fields

Chakravarty has been working in the following fields—
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—
- 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
- 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.
- Agarwal, M. and Chakravarty, C. Waterlike structural and excess entropy anomalies in liquid beryllium fluoride. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 13294.
- 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.
- Mudi, A.; Chakravarty,C. Multiple Time-scale Behaviour of the Hydrogen Bond Network in Water. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 19607.