Atreyee Banerjee

Atreyee Banerjee is a Researcher and Early Career Fellow at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (Oct 2024–Jun 2025) and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP), Mainz, Germany, under Prof. Kurt Kremer. She completed her PhD in Chemical Science at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (2017) and postdocs at Cambridge University (2017–2019) and MPIP (2019–present).

Education

• PhD (2017): CSIR-NCL, Pune, India (Supervisor: Dr. Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya)
• MSc (2011): Visva Bharati, Santiniketan (Physical Chemistry)
• BSc (2009): Visva Bharati, Santiniketan

Research Interests

Focused on data-driven analysis of complex systems, including supercooled liquids, polymers, and organic crystals. Specializes in combining theory, simulations, and machine learning to study structural/dynamical properties. Key areas include glass transition, free energy landscapes, and polymer dynamics.

Publications Overview

Recent work includes machine learning approaches to glass transition in acrylic polymers (J. Chem. Phys., 2023), data-driven analysis of polymer dynamics (ACS Macro. Lett., 2023), and thermodynamic studies of supercooled liquids (Soft Matter, 2022). Research emphasizes methodological innovations like PCA clustering and basin-hopping optimization.

Awards

Recipient of DST-India Travel Award (2017), Best Research Scholar Award (CSIR-NCL, 2017), Shell-India Computational Talent Prize Bronze (2015), and multiple best poster awards (2014–2015).

Grants & Labs

Collaborates with Dr. Oleksandra Kukharenko in the Polymer Theory Group at MPIP. Active in computational initiatives like the ENGAGE Summer School (2023). Research involves datasets from GROMACS trajectories and open-source tools (e.g., scikit-learn).