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Dr Andela Saric and Dr Shiladitya Banerjee as our new IPLS Strategic Fellows, joining Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ in 2016

14 December 2015

Andela Saric Profile

We are pleased to announce that after an extremely competitive selection process, Dr Andela Saric and Dr Shiladitya Banerjee have been selected are our new IPLS Strategic Fellows. Dr Saric and Dr Banerjee will be joining the Department of Physics and Astronomy and IPLS as new junior group leaders in theoretical biological physics. We would like to thank the faculty involved in conducting the search as well as financial support from the Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Provost Strategic Development Fund.Ìý

Both Dr Saric and Dr Banerjee are currently recruiting for PhD students to start in September 2016, for more details please see our Opportunities ±è²¹²µ±ð.Ìý


Dr Andela Saric

Dr Saric is currently a HFSP postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. She will be moving to Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ in April 2016. Dr Saric's research will focus on computational soft matter and biological physics. More details about Dr Saric's work can be found at her . A few of Dr Saric's recently published papers is below.

A. Å arić, Y. C. Chebaro, T. P. J. Knowles and D. Frenkel,Ìý.ÌýProc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.Ìý111, 17869 (2014).Ìý().

S. A. Mallory,ÌýA. Å arić, C. Valeriani and A. Cacciuto,Ìý.ÌýPhys. Rev. E  89, 052303 (2014).

B. M. Mognetti§,ÌýA. Å arić§, S. Angioletti-Uberti, A. Cacciuto, C. Valeriani and D. Frenkel,Ìý.ÌýPhys. Rev.Lett.Ìý111, 245702 (2013). (Editor's suggestion, highlighted in P. Ball,Ìý, 134 (2013)).

J. A. Napoli,ÌýA. Å arić and A. Cacciuto,Ìý,Ìý³§´Ç´Ú³ÙÌý²Ñ²¹³Ù³Ù±ð°ùÌý9, 8881 (2013).


Shiladitya Banerjee profile

Dr Shiladitya Banerjee

Dr Banerjee is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. He will be moving to Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ in July 2016. Dr Banerjee's research will focus on cellular biophysics, quantitative biology and soft matter physics. More details about Dr Banerjee's work can be found at his . A few of Dr Banerjee's recent publications is listed below.  

S. Banerjee, N.F. Scherer and A.R. Dinner, "Shape dynamics of growing cell walls",Ìý,ÌýIn RevisionÌý(2015).Ìý

J. Notbohm*,ÌýS. Banerjee*, K.J.C. Utuje, B. Gweon, H. Jang, Y. Park, J. Shin, J.P. Butler, J.J. Fredberg and M.C. Marchetti, "Cellular contraction and polarization drive collective cellular motions",ÌýIn Revision(2015).Ìý

S. Banerjee, K.J.C. Utuje and M.C. Marchetti, "Propagating stress waves during epithelial expansion",Ìý.ÌýFeatured in Editor's suggestions.

C.S. Wright*,ÌýS. Banerjee*, S. Iyer-Biswas, S. Crosson, A.R. Dinner and N.F. Scherer, "Intergenerational continuity of cell shape dynamics in Caulobacter crescentus",Ìý.

E.J. Hemmingway, A. Maitra,ÌýS. Banerjee, M.C. Marchetti, S. Ramaswamy, S.M. Fielding and M.E. Cates, "Active Viscoelastic Matter: From Bacterial Drag Reduction to Turulent Solids",Ìý.