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    Meet the Associate Professor

    Arijit Maitra

    Associate Professor,
    School of Engineering & Technology

    Arijit Maitra

    Email : arijit.maitra@bmu.edu.in

    Dr. Arijit Maitra has received Ph.D. from Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, Münster, Germany and carried out postdoctoral research at University of California-San Diego and SUNY-Stony Brook, USA. His focus of research is theoretical and computational modelling of microscopic dynamics in soft matter systems such as polymers and biological cells involving quantitative techniques such as molecular simulations (MD, Monte Carlo, ab-initio), and statistical physics. He is interested in problems that have relevance to materials and biomedical sciences, and his publications have appeared in Physical Review Letters, PNAS, Biophysical Journal, and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

    • Graduation In: B.E.
    • Graduation From: R.E. College (NIT Durgapur)
    • Graduation Year: 2000
    • Post Graduation In: M.E
    • Post Graduation From: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    • Post Graduation Year: 2002
    • Doctorate In: Ph.D. - Physical Chemistry
    • Doctorate From: Wesfälische Wilhelms Universität, Münster, Germany
    • Doctorate Year: 2007
    • Computational Materials Science (B.Tech, Minor)
    • Computational Science of Microscopic Systems (B.Tech, Elective)
    • Statistical Learning (B.Tech, Elective)
    • Environmental Science and Sustainability (I year, B.Tech)
    • Engineering Chemistry (I Year, B.Tech)
    • Electrochemistry and Energy Storage (I Year, B.Tech)
    • Machine Learning and Data Mining - Lab (III Year, B.Tech)
    • Fundamentals of Data Science (I Year, B.Tech)
    • Emerging Life Science (Epigenetics and Microbiome) [B.Tech]
    • Emerging Materials Science and Applications (B.Tech)
    • Applied Machine Learning (Ph.D.)
    • Research and Publications Ethics (Ph.D.)
    • Research Methodology (Ph.D.)
    From - To (Year) Designation & Organization Core Competency Additional Exp. Details
    Assistant Professor, BML Munjal University
    Postdoctoral Researcher, SUNY Stony Brook, USA.
    Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego, USA
    • Maitra* and M. P. Gururajan, Extracting Rates and Activation Free Energies of Martensitic Transitions Using Nanomechanical Force Statistics: Theory, Models, and Analysis, Scientific Reports, 2025, 15, 3008.
    • A Saraswat, U Sharma, A Gandotra, L Wasan, S Artham, A Maitra*, and B Singh*, Pred-AHCP: Robust Feature Selection-Enabled Sequence-Specific Prediction of Anti-Hepatitis C Peptides via Machine Learning, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2024, 64, 24, 9111–9124.
    • Maitra* and B. Singh, Interpreting Force Response Patterns of a Mechanically Driven Crystallographic Phase Transition ,Physical Review Materials, 2022, 6, 043404.
    • Ch. Kaushik, A. Maitra, J.A.Vamsi, T.S. Krishna, A.T. Satya, Understanding Elastic/Plastic Nature of Phases in Fe–13Cr–1C Hardfaced coating through Accelerated Property Mapping Technique. Materials Letters, 2022, 320, 132335.
    • Maitra* and K. Dill, Modeling overproduction of ribosomes when antibacterial drugs act on cells, Biophysical Journal 2016, 110(3).
    • Maitra and K. Dill, Bacterial growth laws reflect the evolutionary importance of energy efficiency, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 2015, 112(2).
    • Maitra and G. Arya, Influence of Pulling Handles and Device Stiffness in Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2011, 13.
    • Maitra and G. Arya, Model Accounting for the Effects of Pulling-Device Stiffness in the Analyses of Single-Molecule Force Measurements, Physical Review Letters 2010, 104, 108301.
    • Arya, A. Maitra and S. A. Grigoryev, A Structural Perspective on the Where, How, Why, and What of Nucleosome Positioning, J. Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics 2010, 27, 803.
    • Maitra and A. Heuer, Understanding Correlation Effects for Ion Conduction in Polymer Electrolytes, J. Physical Chemistry B., 2008, 112, 9641.
    • Maitra and A. Heuer, Understanding Segmental Dynamics in Polymer Electrolytes, Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics 2007, 208, 2215.
    • Maitra and A. Heuer, Cation Transport in Polymer Electrolytes: A Microscopic Approach, Physical Review Letters 2007, 98, 227802.
    • Fellowship, Graduate School of Chemistry, “Molecular Functional Structures”, Westfälische Wilhelms Unversität, Münster, Germany
    • General Electric Scholarship for academic excellence, IISc Bangalore
    • Merit award, R. E. College (Now: NIT Durgapur)
    • Peptide and drug molecule interactions using theory and molecular simulations.
    • Computer aided design of drug like molecules.
    • Polymer based ionic systems
    • Nanomechanics of metals and alloys (theory & models)
    • Machine Learning and AI