Dwaipayan Chakrabarti obtained a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2006, having studied slow dynamics in soft matter systems employing coarse-grained models in computer simulations. He then moved to the University of Cambridge with a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship (2006-08) hosted by Prof. David J. Wales in the Department of Chemistry, where he subsequently held an Earnest Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship (2008-11), awarded by the University of Cambridge in the broadly interpreted field of Colloid Science, while collaborating with the Wales group. He also held a Research Fellowship (2009-11) at Clare Hall, a graduate college in Cambridge, where he is now a life member. Following a brief stint in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi as an Assistant Professor (2011-12), he returned to Cambridge en route to a Birmingham Fellowship at the University of Birmingham. He has joined the School in the summer of 2013.

Morgan, J.W.R., Chakrabarti, D., Dorsaz, N. and Wales, D.J. (2013), Designing a Bernal Spiral from Patchy Colloids. ACS Nano, 7: 1246-1256 Chakrabarti D. and Wales, D.J. (2011), Coupled linear and rotary motion in supramolecular helix handedness inversion. Soft Matter, 7: 2325-2328 Fejer, S.N., Chakrabarti, D. and Wales, D.J. (2010), Emergent complexity from simple anisotropic building blocks: Shells, tubes and spirals. ACS Nano, 4: 219-228 Chakrabarti, D., Fejer, S.N. and Wales, D.J. (2009), Rational design of helical architectures. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 106: 20164-20167 Chakrabarti, D. and Wales, D.J. (2009), Simulations of rigid bodies in an angle-axis framework. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 11: 1970-1977 Chakrabarti, D. and Wales, D.J. (2008), Tilted and helical columnar phases for an axially symmetric discoidal system. Phys. Rev. Lett., 100: 127801