Short CV of Areejit Samal

Employment and Research Experience
Professor G
2021 July – onwards

Reader F
2016 July – 2021 June

Fellow E

2014 April – 2016 June
Computational Biology Group, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India
Associate Professor
2021 July – onwards

Assistant Professor
2015 September – 2021 June
Faculty of Life Sciences, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, India
Adjunct Professor
2022 December – 2023 December
Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
2013 March – 2014 December
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
Visiting Scholar
2013 February – 2014 February
Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Collaborator: Prof. N. Louise Glass
Postdoctoral Fellow
2012 February – 2013 March
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA
Supervisor: Prof. Nathan D. Price    External Collaborator: Prof. N. Louise Glass, University of California,Berkeley, USA
CNRS-MPG Joint Program in Systems Biology
Fellow 2010 March – 2012 February
LPTMS, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France & Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
CNRS Supervisor: Prof. Olivier C. Martin  MPG Supervisor: Prof. Jürgen Jost
FEBS Short Term Fellow
2009 October – 2009 November
Univ Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France
Supervisor: Prof. Olivier C. Martin
Postdoctoral Fellow
2008 May – 2010 February
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Jürgen Jost  External Collaborator: Prof. Andreas Wagner, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Education
Ph.D. Physics
2003 July – 2008 May
Department of Physics and Astrophysics , University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Supervisors: Prof. Sanjay Jain and Prof. Shobhit Mahajan
M.Sc. Physics
2001 July – 2003 June
Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
B.Sc. (H) Physics
1998 July – 2001 June
Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Academic Honors
2024 – 2027 PI of the Collaborative Scientific Research Programme (CSRP) grant from Indo French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA)
2024 – 2026 PI of the project titled: “A computational ecotoxicology approach to construct and characterize heavy metals specific adverse outcome pathways relevant in marine risk assessment” funded by the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India
2017 – 2023 Head of Max Planck Partner Group on Mathematical Biology in collaboration with Prof. Jürgen Jost, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
2015 – 2017 Co-PI of EMSL, DOE, USA proposal: An integrated omics approach for a systems-level understanding of the metabolic dynamics during fungal biomass degradation
2015 – 2018 Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, Start-up Grant for Young Scientists
2015 – 2020 Ramanujan Fellowship of Department of Science and Technology (DST), India
2015 – 2018 Max Planck Society-India Mobility Grant
2015 – 2020 Simons Associate, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
2014 Visitor at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), Bures-sur-Yvette, France
2013 – 2018 Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (5-year Independent Position) from ICTP, Trieste, Italy
2010 – 2012 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the CNRS-MPG Joint Program in Systems Biology with personal research budget of 40,000 EUR
2009 Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) short term research fellowship
2007 ICTS Fellowship from Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
2007 Travel Grant from Second European PhD Complexity School, November 22-27, 2007, held at ISI, Torino, Italy
2007 Travel Grant from International Summer School: Statistical Physics of Gene Regulation, July 16-27, 2007, held at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
2004 Travel Grant from 22nd Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics on Biological Networks and Evolution, December 27, 2004 to January 7, 2005 held at Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
2003 – 2008 Junior and Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
2001 – 2003 All India Post-Graduate Scholarship from Human Resource Development Group, India