Dr Dipanjan Mandal

Dipanjan Mandal received his PhD from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, in 2019, working on the entropy driven phase transitions on hard core lattice gas models.  During his PhD, Dipanjan studied different phases and phase transitions for the systems of differently shaped particles on lattice using extensive Monte Carlo simulations.

Having joined the University of Warwick as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in November 2019, Dipanjan now works with Professor David Quigley on crystallisation in lattice systems.  This work involves measurement of the nucleation rates in the presence of static and dynamic impurities using the forward flux sampling method and comparing these with the rates obtained from the classical nucleation theory. The work also includes measuring the nucleation free energy barrier using the umbrella sampling methods. Recently, he has studied the effects of relative mobility in controlling the nucleation rates of the stable vs metastable phase consisting of two types of dimers on square lattice.