Dr. Tirthankar BANERJEE

Tirthankar Banerjee is an independent Research Scientist in the Physics of Active Matter group led by Professor Etienne Fodor at the Department of Physics and Materials Science.

His research primarily focuses on developing and solving hydrodynamic theories for soft and active matter systems inspired from biology. Tirthankar is funded by the National Research Fund of Luxembourg (FNR). He has extensively worked on relaxation processes and non-equilirium phase transitions. He is involved in the mentoring of Master and PhD students in the group. He also reviews papers for international reputed journals of Physics, such as Physical Review Letters, SciPost, etc.

He has been involved in the teaching of Non-equilibrium Soft and Active matter course at the University of Luxembourg.

He demonstrated oscillation phenomena in the natural world to high school students through an initiative of the Scienteens Lab in July 2023.

He was awarded the three-year FNR Core Junior grant to carry out independent research in 2022 amounting to £417,000.

Between 2018 and 2022, Tirthankar did his postdoctoral research at Université Paris-Saclay in Orsay,  France, KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium and the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK.

Tirthankar completed his PhD from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata, India. He got his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from IIT Madras, Chennai and St. Xavier’s College Calcutta, respectively, in India.