Soumendu Bagchi

Soumendu Bagchi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Theoretical division of Physics and Chemistry of Materials (T-1) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) working on novel scale-bridging atomistic simulations to study material behavior at the extremes. Before joining LANL in 2020, Soumendu received his PhD from the Department of Aerospace Engineering in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the same year. At UIUC, he was the recipient of Kenneth Lee Herrick Memorial Award for outstanding academic and research achievements (2020) and Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2019). Soumendu has also been a Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Fellow during 2018-2019 sponsored by National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for a part of his dissertation research on exploiting Moiré effects to control the functionalities of twisted bi-layer Graphene. His research on the interfacial rotational stability of Graphene-based nanostructures have been featured in various media outlets e.g., Materials Today, Azo Nano and Phys.Org etc. Soumendu grew up in India where he completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Engineering from Jadavpur University (2013) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (2015). While at IIT the prestigious DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) gave Soumendu an opportunity to taste the waters in materials research for the first time at Institute of Material Testing, Material Science and Strength of Materials at University of Stuttgart and Fraunhofer Institute of Nondestructive in Germany. Ever since, Soumendu has been passionate about discovering more about materials physics by developing computational models to realize materials with novel functionalities desirable for light-weight and damage tolerant structures in nuclear and aerospace engineering applications. When not doing research, Soumendu can be found either travelling around the world with his wife or composing, programming and producing music in alternative genres.