Amit Samanta
Team Leader
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Notkestrasse 85 (building 99, room O3.003)
22607 Hamburg
Germany
Research
Our current research is focused on method development and implementation to bring large biomolecules (peptides, proteins, viruses, cells) into gas phase and rapidly cool them to ultra-cold temperature using buffer gas cooling technique. This will provide us intense, collimated beam of cold (~4 K) and controlled biomolecules and nanoparticles for atomic resolution diffractive imaging using X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL). We are also working on 'techniques to control' cryogenically-cooled bio-nanoparticles using electric or optical fields. This provides the prerequisites for future time-resolved studies of ultrafast biochemical dynamics, which require well-defined starting states to controllably and reliably trigger specific dynamic processes of interest
Curriculum Vitae
| 2019–present | CMI COMOTION team leader at Center for Free Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg |
| 2016–2019 | Research associate at Center for Free Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg |
| 2011–2016 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2006–2011 | PhD Student at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India |