Sudipta Maiti

Depts. of Physics and Biological Sciences
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS-Pilani)
Hyderabad Campus, India

Sudipta Maiti is a Senior Professor with joint appointment in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Physics in the Hyderabad campus of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India. Previously he was the chair of the Department of Chemical Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR, Mumbai, India). His current research interest spans several areas of Biophysics, namely, protein aggregation, neurotransmission, membrane interactions, and the development of new techniques and instruments for studying biological phenomena (see biophotonics.co.in). Sudipta has been the recipient of several prizes and fellowships, such as the SICO Award for Instrumentation (National Academy of Sciences, India); TIFR Patent Award, The Wellcome Trust Senior Overseas Research Fellowship (UK), and the TIFR Excellence in Teaching Award.  In addition to being a co-founder of the Fluorescence Society (India), he is currently the President of the International Society of Optics Within Life Sciences (Germany), and the Chair-Elect of the Fluorescence Subgroup, Biophysical Society (USA).  He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and an Executive Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

Paper: Serotonin Promotes Vesicular Association and Fusion by Modifying Lipid Bilayers