Soumajit Dutta

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Soumajit Dutta

Assistant Professor Grade II, Chemical Engineering

  • PhD: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023
  • BTech + MTech: IIT Kharagpur, 2018

Email: soumajit.dutta -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Office: AB12/303A
VOIP: 2522


  • Recent Publications

    1. N. R. Boynton, L. E. Hess, S. Dutta, C. I. Kuwana, P. Mirmira, G. R. Solymosy, A. Filatov, T. D. Hagan, S. A. Bartridge, A. Rambo, J. Dibeh, S. L. Vivod, A. Abdulahad, C. V. Amanchukwu, A. L. Ferguson, S. J. Rowan, S. N. Patel “Influence of thermal processing and doping concentration on phase behavior of a lithium­transporting organic ionic plastic crystal” ChemRxiv, 2025

    2. S. Dutta, D. Shukla “Characterization of binding kinetics and intracellular signaling of new psychoactive substances targeting cannabinoid receptor using transition­based reweighting method” eLife, 2025

    3. S. Dutta, D. Shukla “Dynamic Mechanism for Subtype Selectivity of Endocannabinoids” bioRxiv,2024

    4. S. Dutta, D. Shukla “Distinct Activation Mechanisms Regulate Subtype Selectivity of Cannabinoid Receptors” Communications Biology, vol. 6, no. 485, 2023

    5. P. Bansal, S. Dutta, D. Shukla “Activation mechanism of the human Smoothened receptor.” Biophysical Journal, vol. 122, 1–14, 2023.

    6. S. Mittal, S. Dutta, D. Shukla “Reconciling Membrane Protein Simulations with Experimental DEER Spectroscopy Data.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 25, 6253­6262, 2023.

    7. L. Zhang, S. Dutta, S. Xiong, M. Chan, K. Chan, T. Fan, K. Bailey, M. Lindeblad, L. Cooper, L. Rong, A. Gugliuzza, D. Shukla, E. Procko, J. Rehman, A. Malik “A single engineered high­affinity ACE2 peptide therapeutically mitigates lung injury and death induced by multiple SARS­CoV­2 variants.”Nature Chemical Biology, vol. 18, 342–351, 2022.

    8. S. Dutta, B. Selvam, D. Shukla “Distinct Binding Mechanisms for Allosteric Sodium Ion In Cannabinoid Receptors.” ACS Chemical Neuroscience,vol. 13, 379–389, 2022

    9. S. Dutta, B. Selvam, A. Das, D. Shukla “Mechanistic origin of partial agonism of tetrahydrocannabinol for cannabinoid receptors.” Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 298, 2022

    10. G.V. Pereira, A.M. Abdel­Hamid, S. Dutta, C. D’Alessandro­Gabazza, D. Wefers, J.A. Farris, S. Bajaj, Z. Wawrzak , H. Atomi, R.I. Mackie, E.C. Gabazza, D. Shukla, N. Koropatkin, I. Cann “Degradation of complex arabinoxylans by human colonic Bacteroidetes.” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 459, 2021

    11. A. Das, S. Dutta, L. Giri, M. Sen, A. Saxena, J. Kumar, J. Chakraborty “A Detailed Model and Monte Carlo Simulation for Predicting DIP Genome Length Distribution in Baculovirus Infection of Insect Cells.” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 118, 238­252 2020

    12. S. Dutta, M.T. Vahdat, and M. Rezaei, K.V. Agrawal “Crystallization of gas­selective nanoporous graphene by competitive etching and growth: a modeling study.”Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 5202, 2019

  • Work Experience

    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (April 2026 to Present)
    • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago (Dec 2023 – March 2026)
    • Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Aug 2018 – Nov 2023)
    • Undergraduate Researcher, IIT Kharagpur (Jul 2016 – May 2018)
    • Summer Intern, EPFL Switzerland (May 2017 – Jul 2017)
    • Summer Intern, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (May 2016 – Jul 2016)
    • Summer Trainee, ONGC Surat (May 2015 – Jun 2015)

  • Awards

    • Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award (ACS National Meeting, 2023)
    • Harry G. Drickamer Graduate Research Fellowship (2021–2022)
    • Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (2021–2022)
    • SCS Graduate Teaching Award (2021)
    • Graduate College Conference Travel Award (2021)
    • Teachers Ranked as Excellent (2021)