Prof. Dr. Anupam Sengupta

Anupam Sengupta

Associate professor, FNR ATTRACT Fellow

Discipline(s) Physics / Biology / Engineering
Sujets de recherche Physics of living matter, Experimental biophysics, Biomechanics, Theoretical ecology, Complex fluids, Thermofluidics, Material science, Medical technologies, Environmental solutions
Faculté ou Centre Faculté des Sciences, des Technologies et de Médecine
Department Département Physique et sciences des matériaux
Adresse postale Campus Limpertsberg, Université du Luxembourg
162 A, avenue de la Faïencerie
L-1511 Luxembourg
Bureau sur le campus BS 3.08B
E-mail
Téléphone (+352) 46 66 44 6733
Réseaux sociaux & blogs
Langues parlées English, German, Hindi, Bengali
Séjours de recherche en Germany, Slovenia, USA, Switzerland

Anupam Sengupta joined the University of Luxembourg in May 2018 as an ATTRACT Fellow, kicking off experimental biophysics research activities within the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit (PHYMS). Anupam is supported with the prestigious FNR ATTRACT Starting Investigator Grant for his proposal "MBRACE - Microbial Biophysics of Rapid Adaptation in Changing Environments".

Out of ten proposals received in the framework of the ATTRACT call 2016/17, the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) selected Anupam Sengupta as Starting Investigator, allocating a total budget of 1.5 million euros to his project MBRACE (see FNR article published in 2017). 

Anupam heads the Physics of Living Matter Group, interfacing research activities between the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit (PHYMS), the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) and the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH). Using a cross-disciplinary approach, Anupam’s team studies biological processes and systems under changing environments, with a particular focus on the role of geometry, order and topology in living matter.

Anupam holds a Dual Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India. He received PhD in Physics for his work on Liquid Crystal Microfluidics, carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization Göttingen (MPG), Germany (2009-2012). After a brief postdoc stay in Göttingen, Anupam moved to MIT, USA as a Human Frontiers Cross-Disciplinary Fellow to work on biophysical processes in marine environments. Since fall 2015, he was based at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. In addition to microbial ecology (on Earth), Anupam studies the behaviour of microorganisms in zero and hyper gravity conditions (using parabolic flights). He is an enthusiastic educator, and regularly organises scientific workshops and outreach activities at the interface of physics, biology and engineering.

More information: https://sites.google.com/site/anupamsengupta 

FNR Luxembourg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0ibLGXBuoA

TEDx University of Luxembourg:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_dQ0RePpJ8

ATTRACT Fellow, People behind the science:https://www.fnr.lu/research-with-impact-fnr-highlight/fnr-attract-fellows-anupam-sengupta/

Last updated on: mercredi 23 février 2022

02/2021-
Program Director, Bachelor of Physics Program, University of Luxembourg

05/2018 - 
Head of the Physics of Living Matter Group
ATTRACT Fellow, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg
Professor within the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit , University of Luxembourg

01/2014 - 05/2018
Cross-Disciplinary FellowHuman Frontier Science Program 
Environmental Microfluidics Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland 

01/2013 - 12/2013
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization, Göttingen, Germany

06/2009 - 12/2012
PhD in Physicssumma cum laude
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization, Göttingen, Germany
PhD Thesis: Nematic Liquid Crystals and Nematic Colloids in Microfluidic Environment 

08/2008 - 05/2009
Application Engineer
FMP Technology GmbH, Erlangen, Germany

07/2003 - 07/2008
Dual Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India



Last updated on: 23 fév 2022

  • ATTRACT Starting Investigator Grant, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg, 07/2017
  • Young Scientists and the Future: Documentaries by NATURE, 09/2015
  • 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Interdisciplinary Sciences, Lindau, Germany, 07/2015 (upon nomination by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization)
  • Invited Young Scientist: Discover Research in Baden Württemberg, BW-i, Germany, 07/2015 
  • Glenn H. Brown Prize, International Liquid Crystal Society, 2014
  • Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship, Human Frontiers in Science Program, 2014 - 2017
  • DFG Research Fellowship, German Science Foundation, 2014 - 2016 (gratefully declined/retracted)
  • Global Young Scientists Summit, National Research Foundation Singapore, 01/2014 (gratefully declined)
  • Berliner-Ungewitter Prize, University of Göttingen, 2013
  • Springer Thesis Award for outstanding doctoral thesis, 2013
  • Outstanding doctoral research award, Convocation of the University of Göttingen, 2013
  • summa cum laude for PhD thesis, Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen, 12/2012
  • ITN ' HIERARCHY' Fellowship, Marie Curie Actions, 2009 - 2012
  • Invited internship to Erlangen, Germany, 05/2007 - 07 /2007
  • Merit-cum-Means scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 2003 - 2007
  • Certificate of Excellence in community service, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 2006 and 2007
  • Amiable Leadership Award of the class of 1999, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar, 1999



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2023

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See detailSteering self-organisation through confinement
Araújo, Nuno A. M.; Janssen, Liesbeth; Marin, Alvaro; Volpe, Giorgio; Sengupta, Anupam

in Soft Matter (2023)

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See detailCurvature-mediated Programming of Liquid Crystal Microflows
Fedorowicz, Kamil; Prosser; Sengupta, Anupam

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See detailDrying of Bio-colloidal Sessile Droplets: Advances, Applications, and Perspectives
Pal, Anusuya; Gope, Amalesh; Sengupta, Anupam

in Advances in Colloid and Interface Science (2023)

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See detailPlanktonic Active Matter
Sengupta, Anupam

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2022

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See detailSelf-regulation of phenotypic noise synchronizes emergent organization and active transport in confluent microbial environments
Dhar, Jayabrata; Thai, Le Phuong Anh; Ghoshal, Arkajyoti; Giomi, Luca; Sengupta, Anupam

in Nature Physics (2022)

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See detailCurvature in Biological Systems: Its quantification, Emergence and Implications Across the Scales
Schamberger, Barbara; Roschger, Andreas; Sengupta, Anupam; Bidan, Cécile M; Dunlop, John W. C.

in Advanced Materials (2022)

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See detailComplex Dance of Light-Seeking Algae in Light Gradients
Sengupta, Anupam

Article for general public (2022)

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See detailActive reconfiguration of cytoplasmic lipid droplets governs migration of nutrient-limited phytoplankton
Sengupta, Anupam; Dhar, Jayabrata; Danza, Francesco; Ghoshal, Arkajyoti; Müller, Elisabeth; Kakavand, Narges

in Science Advances (2022), 8(44), 1-16

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See detailSpatio-temporal programming of lyotropic phase transition in nanoporous microfluidic confinements
Ulaganathan, Vamseekrishna; Sengupta, Anupam

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See detailMechano-self-regulation of bacterial size in growing colonies
Wittmann, René; Nguyen, G. H. Philipp; Löwen, Hartmut; Sengupta, Anupam; Schwarzendahl, Fabian J.

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2021

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See detailBistability in oxidative stress response determines the migration behavior of phytoplankton in turbulence
Carrara, Francesco; Sengupta, Anupam; Behrendt, Lars; Vardi, Assaf; Stocker, Roman

in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2021), 118(5), 2005944118

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See detailTrade-offs in phenotypic noise synchronize emergent topology to actively enhance transport in microbial environments
Dhar, Jayabrata; Thai, Le Phuong Anh; Ghoshal, Arkajyoti; Giomi, Luca; Sengupta, Anupam

E-print/Working paper (2021)

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See detailSurface anchoring mediates bifurcation in nematic microflows within cylindrical capillaries
Paul, Steffen; Eric, Stellamanns; Sengupta, Anupam

in Physics of Fluids (2021), 33(072005), 072005-1-072005-13

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See detailNovel optofluidic concepts enabled by topological microfluidics
Sengupta, Anupam

in EPJ Web of Conferences (2021), 255(10002), 1-6

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See detailActive reconfiguration of cytoplasmic lipid droplets governs migration of nutrient-limited phytoplankton
Sengupta, Anupam; Dhar, Jayabrata; Danza, Francesco; Ghoshal, Arkajyoti; Mueller, Sarah; Kakavand, Narges

E-print/Working paper (2021)

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See detailTime dependent lyotropic chromonic textures in PDMS-based microfluidic confinements
Sharma, Anshul; Ong, Irvine; Sengupta, Anupam

in Crystals (2021), 11(1),

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See detailTime dependent lyotropic chromonic textures in PDMS-based microfluidic confinements
Sharma, Anshul; Ong, Irvine; Sengupta, Anupam

in Crystals (2021), 11(1), 35

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2020

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See detailBistability in oxidative stress response determines the migration behavior of phytoplankton in turbulence
Carrara, Francesco; Sengupta, Anupam; Behrendt, Lars; Vardi, Assaf; Stocker, Roman

in bioRxiv (2020)

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See detailMicrobial Active Matter: A Topological Framework
Sengupta, Anupam

in Frontiers in Physics (2020), 8(184),

See detailLiquid Crystals at Interfaces and Under Flow: Recent Advances and Trends
Sengupta, Anupam; Mazza, Marco G

in Sengupta, Anupam; Mazza, Marco G (Eds.) Liquid Crystals at Interfaces and Under Flow: Recent Advances and Trends (2020)

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2019

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See detailEmergent biaxiality in nematic microflows illuminated by a laser beam
Eichler, J-C.; Skutnik, R.A.; Sengupta, Anupam; Mazza, M.G.; Schoen, M.

in Molecular Physics (2019), 117(23-24), 3715-3733

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See detailMono-to-multilayer transition in growing bacterial colonies
You, Zhihong; Pearce, Daniel J. G.; Sengupta, Anupam; Giomi, Luca

in Physical Review Letters (2019), 123(17-25),

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2018

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See detailGeometry and Mechanics of Microdomains in Growing Bacterial Colonies
Sengupta, Anupam

in Physical Review. X (2018), 8

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Sengupta, Anupam

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