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Atreyee Banerjee

2024-2025
Home institution
University of Freiburg
Country of origin (home institution)
Germany
Discipline(s)
Science of matter
Theme(s)
Energy & Renewable Resources
Fellowship dates
Biography

Atreyee Banerjee is interested in understanding the structural and dynamical properties of complex systems such as supercooled liquids, polymers, polymer gels,  polymorphic organic crystals. She uses theory, computer simulation, data-driven methods to characterise and understand the behaviour of these complex systems. She pursued her B.SC and M.SC in Chemistry from Vista Bharati University, Santiniketan, India in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Then she moved to the CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India to pursue her Ph.D. Her Ph. D thesis work was focused on understanding the dynamical behavior of model glass-forming liquids from a thermodynamic perspective. She did her first postdoc at Cambridge University, United Kingdom where she explored the energy landscape framework of complex materials. Then, she was a postdoctoral researcher in polymer theory  at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany where her research is mostly focused on understanding the complex behavior of polymeric systems using machine learning methods.

Research Project
Structure-property relationship in soft matters to discover novel materials in silicon

The research project focuses on disordered soft materials, including polymer melts, polymer gels, and glass-forming binary mixtures. A key challenge in this field is to understand and quantify the relationships between composition, structure, and properties across multiple length and time scales, which is critical for the rational design of materials with targeted functionalities. The project employs a diverse set of computational methodologies, such as molecular dynamics simulations, enhanced sampling techniques, and machine learning (ML), to address these challenges and provide insights into the design of innovative soft materials.

Research Interests:

Structural and dynamical properties of complex systems such as supercooled liquids, polymers, polymer gels,  polymorphic organic crystals