Dr. Debasish Mondal

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest : Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics)

• Stochastic thermodynamics
• Brownian Information Engines: Theories and Application
• Stochastic modelling of Homochirality and Chemical Oscillations
• Stochastic resetting in Chemistry, Biology and Climate Sciences
• Physics of active matters and polymers

Education

• Ph.D, Theoretical and Physical Chemistry, IACS, Kolkata, India (2012)
• M.Sc, Chemistry, SNBNCBS and IACS, Kolkata, India (2007)
• B.Sc, Chemistry, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India (2005)

Latest Publications

• Achievable Information-Energy Exchange in a Brownian Information Engine through Potential Profiling, R. Rafeek, D. Mondal, J. Phys. Chem. B (Accepted), 2025.
• Active Brownian information engine: Self-propulsion induced colossal performance, R. Rafeek, D. Mondal, J. Chem. Phys. 161, 124116 (2024).
• Optimizing work extraction in the presence of an entropic potential: An entropic stochastic resonance, S. Y. Ali, P. Bauri, D. Mondal, J. Phys. Chem. B, 128, 16, 3824–3832, (2024).
• Geometric Brownian information engine: Essentials for the best performance, R. Rafeek, S. Y. Ali, D. Mondal, Physical Review E 107 (4), 044122 (2023).
• Rate enhancement of gated drift-diffusion process by optimal resetting, A. Biswas, A. Pal, D. Mondal, S. Ray, J. Chem. Phys. 159, 054111 (2023).
• Asymmetric restart in a stochastic climate model: A theoretical perspective to prevent the abnormal precipitation accumulation caused by global warming, S. Y. Ali, N. Choudhury, D. Mondal, J. Phys. A: Math. and Theor. 55 (30), 301001 (2022).
• Geometric Brownian information engine: Upper bound of the achievable work under feedback control, S. Y. Ali, R. Rafeek, D. Mondal, J. Chem. Phys. 156, 014902 (2022).
• Escape kinetics of self-propelled particles from a circular cavity, T. Debnath, P. Chaudhury, T. Mukherjee, D. Mondal, P. K. Ghosh, J. Chem. Phys. 155, 194102 (2021).
• Noise-induced symmetry breaking of self-regulators: Nonequilibrium transition toward homochirality, R. Rafeek, D. Mondal, J. Chem. Phys. 154, 244906 (2021).