Parbati Biswas is currently a Professor at the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Delhi. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1996. Her field of specialization is Theoretical Physical Chemistry. She has diverse post doctoral experience which includes a brief stint at the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Leeds with Professor T.C.B. McLeish (F. R. S.) as an E.P.S.R.C. fellow. She received the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and worked on various problems in polymer physics at the Dept. of Theoretische Polymerphysik, University of Freiburg, Germany. Subsequently she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. on Protein Folding and Design and later joined Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. to work on Molecular Dynamics of Protein Splicing Her research interests include: Statistical Theory of Protein Folding, Misfolding & Combinatorial Protein Design, Statistical Mechanics and Molecular Dynamics Simulation of biopolymers such as proteins, DNA and membranes, Dynamics of Branched Polymers and Polymer Networks and Rheology of Complex Fluids. She received Professor S. K. Chatterjee award, Indian Institute of Science, in 2016 and the first Charusita Chakravarty Memorial Lecture award of the Chemical Research Society of India, 2017.

Selected Publications:

1. Aggarwal Leena and Biswas Parbati, Hydration water distribution around intrinsically disordered proteins, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122, 4206.
2. Singh Vishal and Biswas Parbati, Estimating the mean first passage time of protein Misfolding, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2018, 20, 5692.
3.  Kumar Adesh, Baruah Anupaul and Biswas Parbati, Role of local and nonlocal interactions in folding and misfolding of globular proteins, J. Chem. Phys. 2017, 146, 065102.
4.  Baruah Anupaul and Biswas Parbati, Globular-Disorder transition in proteins: A compromise between hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions?, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 23207.
5. Rai Gobind, Kumar Amit and Biswas Parbati, Dynamics of dendrimers with excluded volume: A comparison with experiments and simulations, J. Rheol. 2016, 60, 111.
6. Rani Pooja and Biswas Parbati, Diffusion of hydration water around intrinsically disordered proteins, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119, 13262.
7. Baruah Anupaul, Rani Pooja and Biswas Parbati, Conformational entropy of intrinsically disordered proteins from amino acid triads, Sci. Rep. 2015, 5, 11740.
8. Rani Pooja and Biswas Parbati, Local structure and dynamics of hydration water in intrinsically disordered proteins, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119, 10858.
9.  Rawat Nidhi and Biswas Parbati, Hydrogen bond dynamics in intrinsically disordered proteins, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2014, 118, 3018.