Bulbul Chakraborty


Bulbul Chakraborty is the Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University. She is a condensed matter theorist, studying systems far from equilibrium, such as granular materials.

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". She was a postdoctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, , and a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science. She was a Scientific Officer at the Materials Science Laboratory, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, and an Associate Research Physicist and Lecturer, in Applied Physics, at Yale University. Chakraborty joined the faculty in the Physics Department at Brandeis University in 1989 where she has been Full Professor since 2000.

Awards and honors

Chakraborty is the Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University. She was elected fellow of the American Physical Society 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". In 2018, the Simons Foundation awarded Chakraborty a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics.

Selected publications

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