Moumita Das

Moumita Das is an Indian-American physicist specializing in soft matter and statistical mechanics research. She is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Das earned a B.S. and M.S. from Jadavpur University.^[1] She received a Ph.D. in physics from the Indian Institute of Science in 2005.^[1] Her dissertation was titled, Ordering, Stochasticity, and Rheology in Sheared and Confined Complex Fluids.^[1] Sriram Ramaswamy was her dissertation supervisor.^[1] From 2004 to 2005, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences working under mentor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan.^[1] She was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles under Alex J. Levine from 2005 to 2006.^[1] From 2007 to 2011, Das researched as a VENI fellow at the school of physics and astronomy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with Frederick C. MacKintosh.^[1]

Das joined Syracuse University as a senior scientist in the department of physics in 2011.^[1] She researches soft matter and statistical mechanics.^[2] In 2012, she became an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the Rochester Institute of Technology.^[1] Das was promoted to associate professor in 2018 and professor in 2023.^[1] In 2024, she was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.^[3]