Short Bio:
Personal Details:
Full Name: Amit Kumar Chattopadhyay
Date and Place of Birth: Chinsurah, India; 2nd of June 1973
Nationality: Indian
Present Designation: Lecturer in Mathematics, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
Telephone Number: +44 (0)121 204 3500
Email Address: a.k.chattopadhyay@aston.ac.uk
Webpage: https://research.aston.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/amit-k-chattopadhyay%28c6cd579e-7093-4ba0-9348-10890288ca77%29.html
University & Higher Education:
� 17th April, 1995: Bachelor Degree (B. Sc.) in Physics (Honours), Chemistry, Mathematics and English from the University of Calcutta, India; mark � 71 %, rank � 3rd.
� 16th August, 1997: Masters in Physics (M. Sc.) with specialisation in Statistical and High Energy Physics from the University of Calcutta, India; mark � 75 %, rank � 4th.
PhD Details: Turbulence in Low Dimensional Models (23.05.2001); Jadavpur University, India
Postdoctoral Experience:
� June 2001 � November 2003: Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dresden, Germany.
� November 2003 � July 2004: Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin, Germany; sponsor: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
� July 2004 � November 2005: University of Warwick, UK.
� January 2006 � July 2007: University of Padua, Italy; Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship.
� July 2007 � June 2011: University of Edinburgh, UK.
Permanent positions:
� November 2007 � January 2010: University of Delhi, India; Associate Professor (Reader) in Physics.
� February 2010 � present: Aston University, UK; Lecturer in Mathematics.
Research Interests:
Interdisciplinary theoretical studies in mathematical biology, soft condensed matter physics and macroeconomics, with a focus towards application oriented statistical and nonlinear physics, including turbulence and bioinformatics.
Expertise & Skills:
� Analytical: Statistical field theory, renormalisation, non-linear dynamics, mode coupling theory.
� Numerical: Fortran, C, Mathematica & Maple � Simulations & statistical BIG data analysis, including machine-learning techniques (dimensional reduction & visualisation).
� Operating Systems: Unix, Mac OSX, Linux, MS Windows & MS DOS.
Research Outline:
� PhD Students:
1) Daniel J Bush (Year 3) � On �Mathematical modeling of T/B cell immunology�
2) Xi He (Year 2) � On �Mathematical modeling of atherosclerosis and its effects on cardiovascular deaths�
� Under-graduate Project Students: 18 students between 2011-2014.
� Publication: Over 30 research articles in top ranked peer reviewed research journals & 2 books (one of the books is in the highest selling/rated HE bracket, published by Tata McGraw-Hill).
� Editorship/Reviewer: Executive Editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Science (http://irsaps.org) and referee of the Physical Review Group, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Molecular Structure, PlosOne, Journal of Applied Statistics and International Journal of Energy Management.
Publications: Over 45 publications in top ranked peer reviewed journals; 27.10 Researchgate factor
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