Department of Physics
University of Kerala
Established in 1970
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Department of Physics
University of Kerala
Kariavattom Campus
Thiruvananthapuram
Dr. Mamata Sahoo
UGC - Assistant Professor
Phone (Off) :04712308920
Email : mamata@keralauniversity.ac.in
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Dr. Mamata Sahoo works on theoretical Statistical Physics and Bio-Physics. She did her PhD with Prof.
Arun M Jayannavar in the field of Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics from Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar and the PhD
degree was awarded by Homi Bhaba National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai India. Following her PhD, Mamata was awarded for Max-Planck
postdoctoral fellowship and subsequently she worked as a Max-Planck postdoctoral fellow in the Theory & Biosystem group of Max-Planck
Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany with Prof. Stefan Klumpp. During her postdoc, she was mainly working in
the field of Bio-Physics, especially on the molecular motor transport, genetic regulation (transcriptional elongation) and exclusion
models. Later on, she was awarded for the INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship scheme from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of
India and worked as an Inspire Faculty in CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram and later in School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science
Education & Research, Thiruvananthapuram for about four and half years. Since June-2018 she has been working as a UGC Assistant
Professor (UGC-FRP) in the Department of Physics, University of Kerala.
In addition, Mamata has visited several research Institutes, attended several international and national
conferences and workshops and delivered many invited talks across India and abroad. She is also a recipient
of many awards and fellowships
Ph.D (Physics): Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar/Homi Bhaba National Institute, Mumbai India.
Thesis Title: Driven Non-equilibrium Systems: Brownian Ratchets, Fluctuation
theorems and Related Phenomena.
Post MSc (Advanced Physics): Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
MSc (Physics): Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.
BSc (Physics): Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, india
1. UGC Assistant Professor under UGC-FRP Scheme (Cycle-IV, 2017).
2. INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship Award (IFA-13 PH-66) (2013).
3. DST Fast Track Women Fellowship (SR/FTP/PS-199/2012) (2013).
4. Gold Medalist (Rank-1) in BSc. Physics (Honors), Fakir Mohan University, Odisha, India (2001).
5. Best Graduate Award from the Royal Society, Fakir Mohan University, Odisha, India (2001).
6. Best Physics Honours Award from Fakir Mohan University, Odisha, India (2001).
7. National and Merit Scholarship in Intermediate (1998).
8. National and Merit Scholarship in High School (1996).
9. Reviewer of several national and international journals.
10. Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (2004)(Rank-143)
11. Qualified Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) for PhD program in physics
(2004) (Rank-44).
UGC Assistant Professor: Department of Physics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum (June 2018-Present).
Inspire Faculty: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Thiruvananthapuram (Sept. 2016 – June 2018).
Inspire Faculty: CSIR-NIIST Thiruvananthapuram (Jan. 2014 – Sept. 2016).
Max-Planck Post-doctoral Fellow: Max Planck Institute for Colloids & Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany (May 2010 – Aug. 2012).
Guest Scientist: Max-Planck Institute for Colloids & Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany from May 2014 to June 2014.
Guest Scientist: Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems,Dresden, Germany from Nov. 2009 to Dec. 2009.
Research Scientist: IIITMK, Thiruvananthapuram (Feb. 2013 - July 2013).
Visiting Scientist: Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (Nov. 2012 – Jan. 2013).
My research is mainly based on the broad areas of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics & Bio Physics.
In particular, we work on various Complex Nonequilibrium processes and Biologically Motivated Problems such as Brownian
Motors, Ratchet Dynamics, Stochastic Resonance, Fluctuation Theorems, Jarzynski Relation, Exclusion Models, Molecular Motor
Transport, Genetic Regulations especially on Transcriptional Elongation & DNA Replication.
Selected Publications:
Asymmetric exclusion process with a dynamic roadblock particle and open boundaries
M. Sahoo and S. Klumpp
J.Phys. A: Math. Theor. 49, 315001 (2016).
Dynamic blockage in an exclusion process
M. Sahoo, J. J. Dong, and S. Klumpp
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 48, 015007 (2015).
(Selected as special inclusion in IOP Select & Inclusion in the Journal of Physics A, Highlights of 2015 collection)
Backtracking dynamics of RNA polymerase: Pausing and error correction
M. Sahoo and S. Klumpp
J. Phys. Cond. Mat. 25, 374104 (2013).
(Special section on the physics of protein motility and motor Proteins)
Transcriptional proofreading in dense RNA polymerase traffic
M. Sahoo and S. Klumpp
Europhys. Lett. 96, 60004 (2011).
Quantum Work Relations under trial Hamiltonians:
A.K. Pati, M. Sahoo and B. Pradhan
Phys. Rev. E 82, 031112 (2010).
Charged particle in magnetic field: Jarzynski's Equality
A.M. Jayannavar and M. Sahoo
Phys. Rev. E 75, 032102 (2007).
Stoke's efficiency in temporally rocked ratchets
R. Krishnan, J. Chacko, M. Sahoo and A. M. Jayannavar
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment: P06017 (2006)
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Driven Nonequilibrium Systems & Biological Processes
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