Dr. Atanu Acharya

Assistant Professor at Syracuse University

Department of Chemistry

BioInspired Syracuse: Institute for Material and Living Systems

Email: achary01@syr.edu    Phone: 315-443-5487

Education and Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2022) with Dr. JC Gumbart, Georgia Tech

Postdoctoral Associate (2017-2018) with Dr. Victor Batista, Yale University

Ph.D. (2016) with Dr. Anna Krylov, USC

M.Sc. (2011); Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Awards and Honors

2026 STEM Under 40, Museum of Science & Technology. Presented by Micron.

2026 PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award, American Chemical Society.

2023 Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, NIH-NIGMS

Before Syracuse: 

2021 Best presentation award, MBM seminar series, Georgia Tech.

2016 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Department of Chemistry, USC.

2016 Predoctoral Scholarship, Department of Chemistry, USC.

2015 Dulligan Memorial Award in physical chemistry, Department of Chemistry, USC.

2015    Travel award, I-APS.

2014 Best poster award at TCS 2014, CSIR-NCL, Pune, India.

2011 Best dissertation award for MSc thesis, Department of Chemistry, IITM.

2010 Summer Research Fellowship, Indian Academy of Sciences.