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Dr. Sutapa Mukherji
Principal Scientist
ADDRESS
Principal Scientist
Department of Protein Chemistry and Technology (PCT)
CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute
Mysore - 570 020
email: sutapa@cftri.res.in
RESEARCH INTEREST
Sutapa Mukherji is a theoretical physicist with primary interest in Statistical Mechanics,
Thermodynamics, and Biological Physics. Before joining CFTRI, Mysore in February, 2015, she
has worked at the Physics departments of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (1998-2002)
and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2002-2015) as assistant and associate professor. The
following details might give a brief description of the areas in which she has worked during her stay
in IITs. Recently, she has developed a strong interest in Systems Biology and she is interested in
understanding mechanisms of stress response of bacteria using various modelling tools.
1. Systems Biology: Stress response in bacterial cells
2. Biological Physics: Transport processes inside the cell, growth dynamics of microtubules
3. Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamics: Phases and phase transitions
of driven many-particle systems (asymmetric simple exclusion processes (ASEP)); Entropy production and fluctuation theorems for single particle nonequilibrium systems subjected to noisy
environment
LIST OF PUBLISHED PAPERS
(Publications are all in refereed international journals)
1. S. M. Bhattacharjee and S. Mukherji, Directed polymers with random interaction: marginal
relevance and novel criticality, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 49 (1993).
2. S. M. Bhattacharjee and S. Mukherji, Loop mediated crossover in the three dimensional Ising
model, J. Phys. A 26, L423 (1993).
3. S. Mukherji and S. M. Bhattacharjee, Reunion of vicious walkers: results from expansion, J.
Phys. A 26, L1139 (1993).
4. S. Mukherji and S. M. Bhattacharjee, Directed polymers with random interaction: an exactly
solvable case, Phys. Rev. E 48, 3483 (1993).
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5. S. Mukherji and S. M. Bhattacharjee, Reunion and Survival of interacting walkers, Phys. Rev.
E 48, 3427 (1993).
6. S. Mukherji, Overlap, Disorder and Directed Polymers: A Renormalization Group Approach,
Phys. Rev. E (rapid comm.) 50, R2407 (1994).
7. S. Mukherji and S. M. Bhattacharjee, Failure of the Harris criterion for directed polymers on
hierarchical lattices, Phys. Rev. E 52, 1920 (1995).
8. S. M. Bhattacharjee and S. Mukherji, Finite size correction in disordered systems: A new
divergence, Phys. Rev. E 52, 4860 (1995).
9. S. M. Bhattacharjee and S. Mukherji, Polymers with randomness: Phases and phase transitions,
Physica A 224, 239 (1996).
10. S. Mukherji and S. M. Bhattacharjee, Infinite number of exponents in a spin glass transition,
Phys. Rev. B (rapid comm.) 53, R6002 (1996).
11. S. Mukherji, S. M. Bhattacharjee, and Artur Baumgärtner , Scaling of fluctuations for Directed
polymers with random interaction, J. Phys. A 29, L115 (1996).
12. S. Mukherji and S. M. Bhattacharjee, Deadlock and Waiting times in Traffic jam, Physica A
245, 534 (1997).
13. S. Mukherji, Roughening of a growing surface on a crystal with correlated disorder: influence
of nonlinearity, Phys. Rev. E 55, 6459 (1997).
14. S. Mukherji and T. Nattermann, Steric Repulsion and van der Waals Attraction Between FluxLines in Impure High-Tc Superconductors, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 139 (1997).
15. S. Mukherji and S. M. Bhattacharjee, Nonlocality in kinetic Roughening, Phys. Rev. Lett.
79, 2502 (1997).
16. A. Volmer, S. Mukherji and T. Nattermann, Flux lines in impure high temperature superconductors, Euro. Phys. J. B 5, 627 (1998).
17. S. M. Bhattacharjee and S. Mukherji, Incommensuration in quantum antiferromagnetic chain,
J. Phys. A 31, L695 (1998).
18. S. Mukherji, Early time behavior of the order parameter coupled to a conserved density: A
study in a semi-infinite geometry, Euro. Phys. J. B, 8, 423 (1999).
19. S. Mukherji and S. M. Bhattacharjee, Nonequilibrium growth problems, Current science 77,
394 (1999).
20. S. M. Bhattacharjee and S. Mukherji, Vicinal surfaces, fractional statistics and universality,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2374 (1999).
21. S. Mukherji, Driven diffusive system: a study on large n limit, Euro. Phys. J. B 17, 551
(2000).
22. S. Mukherji and S. M. Bhattacharjee, Reunion of random walkers with long range interaction:
Applications to polymers and quantum mechanics, Phys. Rev. E, 63, 051103 (2001).
23. S. Mukherji, Driven diffusive systems with non-local perturbations, J. Phys. A 37, 51 (2004).
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24. S. Mukherji and S. M. Bhattacharjee, Nonequilibrium criticality at shock formation in steady
states, J. Phys. A 38, L285 (2005).
25. Pankaj Mishra, A. Kunwar, S. Mukherji and D. Chowdhury, Dynamic instability of Microtubles:
effect of catastrophe-suppressing drugs, Phys. Rev. E 72, 051914 (2005).
26. Sutapa Mukherji and Vivek Mishra, Bulk and surface transitions in asymmetric simple exclusion
process: Impact on boundary layers, Phys. Rev. E 74, 011116 (2006).
27. Sutapa Mukherji, Shocks in asymmetric simple exclusion processes of interacting particles,
Phys. Rev. E 76, 01127 (2007).
28. Sutapa Mukherji, Boundary layer analysis for nonequilibrium phase transitions, Physica A
384, 83 (2007).
29. Sutapa Mukherji, A model for the unidirectional motion of a dynein molecule, Phys. Rev. E
77, 051916 (2008).
30. Sutapa Mukherji, Fixed points and boundary layers in asymmetric simple exclusion processes,
Phys. Rev E 79, 041140 (2009).
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31. Sutapa Mukherji, Multishocks in driven diffusive Processes: Insights from fixed-point analysis
of boundary layers, Phys. Rev. E 83, 031129 (2011)
32. Vandana Yadav and Sutapa Mukherji, Length-dependent dynamics of Microtubules Phys.
Rev. E 84, 062902 (2011)
33. Vandana Yadav, Rajesh Singh and Sutapa Mukherji, Phase-plane analysis of driven multi-lane
exclusion models, J. Stat. Mech. P04004 (2012)
34. Bappa Saha and Sutapa Mukherji, Coupling driven exclusion and diffusion processes on parallel
lanes: boundary induced phase transitions and boundary layers, J. Stat. Mech. P09004
(2013)
35. Bappa Saha and Sutapa Mukherji, Work and heat distribution for a Brownian particle subjected
to an oscillatory drive, J. Stat. Mech. P08014 (2014)
36. Vandana Yadav and Sutapa Mukherji, Polymerisation of microtubules in the presence of diffusing tubules: a boundary layer analysis, J. Stat. Mech. P02009 (2015)
37. Bappa Saha and Sutapa Mukherji, Work distribution function for a Brownian particle driven
by a nonconservative force, to appear in Euro. Phys. J. B (2015)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur 208 016
India.
(Since April, 2009)
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Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur 208 016
India.
(December, 2002-April, 2009)
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur
India. (November, 1998-December, 2002)
Visiting Scientist
Department of Physics
Universitaet Gesamthochschule Essen
Essen, Germany (December, 2000-December, 2001)
POST DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE
1. In the group of Prof. T. Nattermann, Institut für theoretische Physik, Köln, Germany (1996-1997)
2. In the group of Prof. H. W. Diehl, Fachbereich Physik, Universität Gesamthochschule Essen,
Germany (1997-1998)
ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER INSTITUTES
Regular Associate, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (2005-2010).
Ph. D. STUDENTS
1. Ms. Vandana Yadav (IIT, Kanpur; 2016)
2. Mr. Bappa Saha ( Submitted in October, 2015)
RESEARCH GUIDANCE TO M. SC. STUDENTS DURING SUMMER AND
PAPERS PUBLISHED WITH THEM
1. Mr. Pankaj Kr. Mishra (student from IIT-Kanpur)
PAPER:Pankaj Mishra, A. Kunwar, S. Mukherji and D. Chowdhury, Dynamic instability of
Microtubles: effect of catastrophe-suppressing drugs, Phys. Rev. E 72, 051914 (2005).
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2. Mr. Prithviraj Nandigrami (student from IIT-Bombay)
3. Mr. Rajesh Singh (student from IIT-Kanpur)
PAPER: Vandana Yadav, Rajesh Singh and Sutapa Mukherji, Phase-plane analysis of driven
multi-lane exclusion models, J. Stat. Mech. P04004 (2012)
COURSES TAUGHT IN INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KANPUR
1. Mathematical Physics I (a compulsory course for 3rd year integrated M. Sc., two-year M. Sc. and
M. Sc.-Ph. D. Dual degree students)
2. Mathematical Physics II (a compulsory course for 3rd year integrated M. Sc., two-year M. Sc.
and M. Sc.-Ph. D. Dual degree students)
3. Mechanics (Core course for all first year Science and Engineering UG students): Lecture and
tutorial
4. Thermodynamics (Science Elective for Engineering students and a compulsory course for secondyear integrated M. Sc.-Physics students)
5. Review of Classical Mechanics I (PG level course offered for Ph. D. students of Physics
Department)
6. Review of Classical Mechanics II (PG level course offered for Ph. D. students of Physics
Department)
7. Physics Laboratory (for first year UG students from all departments))
• Students interested in doing Ph. D. with Dr. Sutapa Mukherji are requested to contact her
directly.
• Students can be registered through AcSIR or through Mysore University.
admission happens twice a year, during July and December.
• Students from M. Sc. Physics background are most welcome to join for Ph. D.
Typically AcSIR