Debasish Das Mahanta
Assistant Professor, Physics, GSS, BLR
My research is focused on the solvation sciences, investigating the crucial role of solvation structure and water dynamics around biomolecules. I completed my doctoral study at S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India. Subsequently, I have completed five years of post-doctoral study at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Currently, I am working as Assistant Professor (MURTI Fellow) in the Department of Physics at GITAM, Bangalore.
Research Publications
- Das Mahanta, D., Brown, R. D., Webber T., Pezzotti S., Schwaab G., Han S., Shell S. M., Havenith M., (2024) Bridging the Gap in Cryopreservation Mechanism: Unraveling the Interplay between Structure, Dynamics, and Thermodynamics in Cryoprotectant Aqueous Solutions, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2024, 128, 15, 3720-3731.
- Das Mahanta, D., Brown, R. D., Pezzotti, S., Han, S., Schwaab, G., Shell, S. M., Havenith, M., (2023) Local Water Structures Govern the Mixing Thermodynamics of Glycerol-Water Solutions, Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 7381-7392.
- Das Mahanta, D., Mitra, R. K. (2020) Connection of large amplitude angular jump motions with temporal heterogeneity in aqueous solutions, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 22, 9339-9348.
- Das Mahanta, D., Islam, I., Choudhury, S., Das, D. K., Mitra, R. K. and Barman, A. (2019) Contrasting hydration dynamics in DME and DMSO aqueous solutions: A combined optical pump-probe and GHz-THz dielectric relaxation investigation, J. Mol. Liq., 290, 111194.
- Das Mahanta, D., Patra, A., Samanta, N., Luong, T. Q., Mukherjee, B., and Mitra, R. K. (2016) Non-monotonic dynamics of water in its binary mixture with 1,2-dimethoxyethane: A combined THz spectroscopic and MD simulation study, J. Chem. Phys., 145, 164501-164512.
Ongoing Research Projects
- Understanding the Effects of Intermolecular Interactions in Molecular Biophysics - under Multidisciplinary Unit of Research on Translational Initiatives (MURTI)
Authored Books
- Structure and Dynamics of Water around Biomolecules, 2020, Debasish Das Mahanta, Rajib Mitra
Expertise
- Terahertz Spectroscopy
- Molecular Dynamics Simulation
- Solvation Study
- Molecular Biophysics