Shiladitya Banerjee

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, Syracuse University (2013)

B.Sc. (Honors) in Physics, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India (2008)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago (2013-2016)

Honors & Awards

• APS Outstanding Referee (2026)
• American Physical Society Early Career Award in Biological Physics (2024)
• Soft Matter Emerging Investigator, Soft Matter journal (2022)
• Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA), NIH (2021)
• Royal Society University Research Fellow (2018)
• Young Investigator Award, Human Frontier Science Program (2018)
• EPSRC New Investigator Award (2018)
• UCL Global Engagement Award (2017)
• American Physical Society Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Biological Physics (2014)
• Kadanoff-Rice Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago (2013).
• All-University Doctoral Prize, Syracuse University (2013)
• Gold Medal for Excellence, Chennai Mathematical Institute (2008)

Research

Physics of Living Systems: Cell and Tissue mechanics, Collective cell dynamics, Cytoskeletal dynamics, Bacterial physiology, Learning and adaptation.

Papers

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