Purba Chatterjee

Purba Chatterjee is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, affiliated with the School of Arts & Sciences. Their primary mentors are Professors Andrea Liu and Eleni Katifori. Chatterjee’s research focuses on non-equilibrium physics, biophysics, and condensed matter systems, with an emphasis on adaptive networks, DNA supercoiling dynamics, and collective behavior in biological and physical systems. They investigate time-scale interplay in elastic flow networks, evolutionary adaptation in heterogeneous environments, and the emergence of order in active matter. Chatterjee’s work bridges theoretical frameworks with experimental insights, contributing to understanding systems far from thermal equilibrium.

Research interests include hierarchical loop stabilization, pulsatile driving effects on elastic networks, and transitions in gene synthesis driven by supercoiling. Their publications span topics such as chemotaxis modeling, flocking dynamics, and the role of three-body interactions in polar order formation. Chatterjee has collaborated with mentors to explore non-equilibrium phenomena in both biological and synthetic systems.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed. Their advising and lab affiliations are not detailed in the provided text, though their research is conducted within the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Pennsylvania.