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Prof. Surya Kanta Ghosh

PhD (IIT Bombay)

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Physics

Room No: 303   +91-870-2464221
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Research Areas

 Biophysics, Soft Matter, Statistical Mechanics 

 Computational Physics, AI&ML 

 Kinetics of Drug Delivery 

 Mathematical Models of Tumor Spheroid 

 Polymer Dynamics in complex environments 

 Self Propelled Particles, Active Matter 

 Tetrapods: Self-assembly and dynamics 

 Webpage: https://physicsurya.wixsite.com/suryakghosh  

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
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  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Problem Solving with C++(PH5105)
  • Computer programming for Physics(PH17009)
  • Statistical Mechanics(PH25007)
  • Computer Programming Laboratory(PH5108)
  • Linear Integrated Circuits Laboratory(PH5106)
  • Mathematical Physics(PH16001)
  • Heat and Thermodynamics(PH2102)
  • Heat and Thermodynamics(PHB151)
  • Engineering Physics(PH1161)
  • Heat and Thermodynamics(PH3102)
  • Heat and Thermodynamics Laboratory(PH2104)
  • Mathematical Physics(PH4101)
  • Heat and Thermodynamics(PHI151)
  • Heat and Thermodynamics Laboratory(PHI152)
  • Engineering Physics(PH132)
  • Seminar - I(PH4198)
  • Google Scholar ID: http://www.tinyurl.com/skg-pub


  • Crowding induced switching of polymer translocation by the amalgamation of entropy and osmotic pressure, By Vrinda Garg, Rejoy Mathew, Riyan Ibrahim, Kulveer Singh, Surya K. Ghosh, Cell Press, iScience, vol.27, pp., 2024
  • Acidic pH-Triggered Release of Doxorubicin from Ligand-Decorated Polymeric Micelles Potentiates Efficacy against Cancer Cells, By Sayoni Maitra Roy, Sourav Barman, Purvi Kishore, Pousali Bag, Tapas Ghatak, Arnab Basu, Surya K. Ghosh, Amit Ranjan Maity, American Chemical Society, ACS Applied Nano Materials, vol.6(20), pp.18988, 2023
  • Overcoming the nuclear drug delivery barriers using nanomedicine-based targeted strategies, By S. M. Roy, Vrinda Garg, Sushmitha Sivaraman, Sourav Barman, Chitrita Ghosh, Pousali Bag, Partha Maji, Arnab Basu, Surya K. Ghosh, A. R. Maity, Elsevier, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, vol.83, pp.101108, 2023
  • Genome organization via loop extrusion, insights from coarsed-grained polymer physics models, By Surya K. Ghosh, Daniel Jost, Oxford University Press, Briefings in Functional Genomics, vol.19, pp.119, 2020
  • How epigenome drives chromatin folding dynamics, insights from coarse-grained models of chromosomes, By Surya K. Ghosh, Daniel Jost, PLoS, USA, PLoS Comput Biol, vol.14, pp.1-26, 2018
  • Anomalous, non-Gaussian tracer diffusion in crowded two-dimensional environments, By Surya K. Ghosh, A. Cherstvy, Denis Grebenkov, R. Metzler, Institute of Physics, UK, New J. Phys., vol.18, pp.130271, 2017
  • Interactions of rod-like particles on responsive elastic sheets, By Surya K. Ghosh, Aandrey Cherstvy, Eugene Petrov, Ralf Metzler, Royal Society of Chemistry, Soft Matter, vol.12, pp.7908, 2016
  • Non-universal tracer diffusion in crowded media of non-inert obstacles , By Surya K. Ghosh, Andrey Cherstvy, and Ralf Metzler, Royal Society of Chemistry, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol.17, pp.1847, 2016

Deciphering chromatin organization with polymer of heterogeneous flexibility

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 6700000
  • Status Ongoing

Sunlight-mediated conversion of plastic and bio-waste to heteroatom doped graphene-based hybrid materials

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DRDO
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 7200000
  • Status Ongoing

Statistical Physics of Crowded Environments Exhibiting Anomalous Super Diffusion

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor MATRICS (DST-SERB)
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 660000
  • Status Ongoing

Computational structure-based drug design

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor XSEDE, USA & Microsoft Azure
  • Duration 36 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 5000000
  • Status Completed

Dynamics in Complex Environments: From Single Particle to Giant Polymers

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor SRG (DST-SERB)
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1700000
  • Status Completed

Structure and Dynamics of macromolecules

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor NIT Warangal
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 450000
  • Status Completed


Babu Rao

  • Area of Research: Self Propelled Particle, Active Matter

Rahul bag

  • Area of Research: Ring Polymer in Crowded Environment, Heterogeneous Flexibility

Vrinda Garg

  • Area of Research: Polymer Translocation, Interior Loop formation, Self-assembly of Tetrapods
  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Physics
  • Best Poster at ICTP, Trieste, Italy
  • Editorial Board Member, Scientific Report
  • Guest Scientist, Max Plank Institute, Germany
  • IoP Trusted Reviewer,Institute of Physics, UK
  • Co-ordinator for International Relations and Alumni Affairs (IR&AA) (Continuing from July, 2024)
  • Institute Ranking Committee (July, 2023 - July, 2024)
  • Library Coordinator (Continuing from July, 2023)
  • Faculty Advisor Int-MSc First Year (Continuing from July, 2022)