NISER

Past Experience:

Postdoc: Washington University in St. Louis, USA (July 2025 – December 2025)

Postdoc: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA(July 2024 – June 2025)

Postdoc: University of Massachusetts Boston, USA (Jan 2023 – June 2024)

Postdoc: Tel Aviv University, Israel (Nov 2020 – Dec 2022)

Visiting Fellow: S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India (Dec 2019 – July 2020)

Education:

Integrated Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India (Aug 2012 – Nov 2019)

• Theoretical soft condensed matter
• Stochastic thermodynamics
• Biophysics

• Ghosal, A., Lea, N. E., Case, L. B., GrandPre, T., Principles of Client Enrichment in Multicomponent Biomolecular Condensates, 2026, Under revision, https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11450
• Ghosal, A. and Bisker, G. A review of progress in identification and quantification of irreversibility in stochastic systems, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2026, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CP04712A
•  Chourasia, S^∗, Siddiqui, N^∗, Ghosal, A^∗, and Sharma, R. A first passage time study of bacterial eradication under antibiotic action, ∗ equal contribution,Computational Biology and Chemistry, 122, 108889 (2026); DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2026.108889 
• Ghosal, A., Y.-H. Wang, L.Troyer, and Kim, S,. Practical considerations for accurate estimation of diffusion parameters from single particle tracking in live cell, Journal of Chemical Physics, 163, 134202 (2025); DOI: doi.org/10.1063/5.0284172 
• Ghosal, A. and Green, J. R., Dissipation rates from experimental uncertainty, Physical Review Research 7, L012078 (2025); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.L012078 
• Kapustin, U. and Ghosal, A. and Bisker, G., Utilizing time-series measurements for entropy production estimation in partially observed systems, Physical Review Research 6, 023039 (2024); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.023039 
• Nitzan, E., Ghosal, A., & Bisker, G., Universal bounds on entropy production inferred from observed statistics, Physical Review Research,  5, 043251 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043251 
• Ghosal, A., & Bisker, G., Entropy production rates for different notions of partial information, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 56(25), 254001 (2023); DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/acc957 
• Karmakar, R., Ghosal, A., & Chakrabarti, J., Model studies on motion of respiratory droplets driven through a face mask, Europhysics Letters,141(2), 27001 (2023); DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/acaf9f 
• Ghosal, A, & Bisker, G., Inferring entropy production rate from partially observed langevin dynamics under coarse-graining, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24, 24021-24031 (2022); DOI:10.1039/D2CP03064K 
• Ghosal, A., Statistics of reaction flux and dynamical activity associated with a diffusion-influenced ligand-binding reaction, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125(7), 1760–1767 (2021);DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c10350 
• Ghosal, A, & Cherayil, B. J., Fluctuation relations for flow-driven trapped colloids and implications for related polymeric systems, European Physical Journal B, 92(11), 1–9 (2019); DOI:10.1140/epjb/e2019-100376-0 

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