Arup Chakraborty

Biography

 Education Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1988 B. of Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 1983 Publications Honors and Awards Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 Graduate Student Council Outstanding Faculty Award, 2012 Raman Memorial Lectures, 2009 Department of Chemical Engineering Teaching Award, MIT, 2009 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008 Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT-Kanpur, 2008 Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2007 E.O. Lawrence Award for Life Sciences, 2007 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, 2006 Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achvt, Univ. of Delaware, 2005 Wilber Lecture, Rice University, 2005 Doraiswamy Lecturer, Iowa State and NCL, India, 2005 Dept. of Chem. Eng. Teaching Award, UC Berkeley, 2005 Engineering Foundation Endowed Lectureship, U.T. Austin, 2005 Election to National Academy of Engineering, 2004 Professional Progress Award, AIChE, 2004 Merck Collaboratus Lectures, Rutgers University, 2004 Trotter Lecturer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2004 Chemcon Distinguished Lecturer Award, Bhubaneswar, India, 2003 Robert W. Vaughan Memorial Lecturer, Caltech, 2000 Research Prof., Miller Inst. for Basic Science, Berkeley, 1999-00 Featured Speaker, NAE Frontiers of Engineering Meeting, 1999 Allan P. Colburn Award, AIChE, 1996 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1994 AIChE, Berkeley Student Chapter, Distinguished Teaching, 1996-97 National Young Investigator Award, 1992-1997 Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lecture, University of Delaware, 1993 Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.), ICIFellowship, 1993-1998 Shell Young Faculty Fellow, 1989-1992 Best Review Paper, Intl. Conf. on Polymer/Solid Interfaces, 1991

Research Interest

 cell-cell recognition in immunology, T cell biology, polymers and membranes, statistical mechanics