Bulbul Chakraborty

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Bulbul Chakraborty
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology
State University of New York
Awards Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020)
Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics (2018)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2008)
Scientific career
Fields Condensed matter physics
Soft matter
Institutions Brandeis University

Bulbul Chakraborty is the Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University. She is recognized for her contributions to soft condensed matter theory studying systems far from equilibrium, such as granular materials, amorphous systems, and statistical physics. She is an elected American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow.

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Academic career

Chakraborty graduated with a BSc in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1974 and earned a PhD in 1979 from State University of New York, Stony Brook. The title of her PhD thesis is "Influence of thermal disorder on electronic properties of solids". [1] She was a postdoctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) in Denmark, and a research associate at the Indian Institute of Science. She was a Scientific Officer (equivalent of assistant professor) at the Materials Science Laboratory, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (1984–1986), and an Associate Research Physicist and Lecturer, in Applied Physics, at Yale University (1987–1989). Chakraborty joined the faculty in the Physics Department at Brandeis University in 1989, where she has been Full Professor since 2000. [2]

Research contributions

Chakraborty has made significant contributions to the understanding of the jamming transition in amorphous materials. Her group uses statistical frameworks to investigate the properties of shear-jammed [3] [4] and densely packed particulate materials, [5] [6] [7] finding that elasticity and friction are correlated with athermal fluctuations in many disordered systems. [8]

According to Google Scholar, her publications have received over 6,000 citations and her h-index is 39. [9]

Awards and honors

Chakraborty is the Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University. [10] She was elected fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2008 "for important theoretical contributions to diverse areas of condensed matter physics, including frustrated magnets, diffusion of light particles in metals, the glass transition, and jamming in granular systems". [11] In 2018, the Simons Foundation awarded Chakraborty a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics. [12] [13] Chakraborty was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020. [14]

Chakraborty received a 2025 Obie Award for her performance in the play Rheology, [15] [16] written by her son Shayok Misha Chowdhury. [17] [18]

Selected publications

  1. ↑ Chakraborty, Bulbul (1979). Influence Of Thermal Disorder On Electronic Properties Of Solids (Thesis). ProQuest   303001823.
  2. ↑ "Bulbul Chakraborty | Physics | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  3. ↑ Seto, Ryohei; Singh, Abhinendra; Chakraborty, Bulbul; Denn, Morton M.; Morris, Jeffrey F. (2019-08-02). "Shear jamming and fragility in dense suspensions". Granular Matter. 21 (3): 82. arXiv: 1902.04361 . doi:10.1007/s10035-019-0931-5. ISSN   1434-7636. S2CID   254117579.
  4. ↑ Bi, Dapeng; Zhang, Jie; Chakraborty, Bulbul; Behringer, R. P. (2011). "Jamming by shear" . Nature. 480 (7377): 355–358. doi:10.1038/nature10667. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   22170683. S2CID   4356160.
  5. ↑ "Field theory of amorphous solids describes toothpaste, concrete and more". Physics World. 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  6. ↑ "domain-b.com: Researchers explain granular material properties". www.domain-b.com. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  7. ↑ Thomas, Jetin E.; Ramola, Kabir; Singh, Abhinendra; Mari, Romain; Morris, Jeffrey F.; Chakraborty, Bulbul (2018-09-21). "Microscopic Origin of Frictional Rheology in Dense Suspensions: Correlations in Force Space". Physical Review Letters. 121 (12) 128002. arXiv: 1804.03155 . doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.128002 . PMID   30296153.
  8. ↑ Acharya, Pappu; Sengupta, Surajit; Chakraborty, Bulbul; Ramola, Kabir (2020-04-24). "Athermal Fluctuations in Disordered Crystals". Physical Review Letters. 124 (16) 168004. arXiv: 1910.06352 . doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.168004. PMID   32383939. S2CID   204575710.
  9. ↑ "Bulbul Chakraborty - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
  10. ↑ "Physicist Bulbul Chakraborty is finding equilibrium". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  11. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  12. ↑ "2018 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Announced". Simons Foundation. 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  13. ↑ "Physicist Chakraborty wins prestigious Simons Foundation fellowship". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  14. ↑ "2020 Fellows". AAAS . Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  15. ↑ Logan Culwell-Block (January 31, 2026). "Crystal Lucas-Perry, Sam Pinkleton, More Win 2026 Obie Awards; See the Full List of Winners". Playbill . Retrieved 2026-02-01.
  16. ↑ "2025 - The 69th Obie Awards were presented on NY1 by Frank DiLella and Obie Winner Michael Urie" . Retrieved 2026-02-01.
  17. ↑ "Rheology". The Bushwick Starr . Retrieved 2026-02-01.
  18. ↑ 69th Obie Awards: Bulbul Chakraborty Acceptance Speech on YouTube
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