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Sujit Datta

Sujit Datta is a Canadian-American professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering, and biophysics at the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the physics of soft and living matter, including complex fluids, porous media, and microbial systems. His research has been covered in Quanta Magazine, Physics World, the Scientific American, and the Times of India.

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Sujit Datta is a Canadian-American professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering, and biophysics at the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the physics of soft and living matter, including complex fluids, porous media, and microbial systems.1 His research has been covered in Quanta Magazine,2 Physics World,3 the Scientific American,4 and the Times of India.5

In 2025, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Reviews of Modern Physics, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Physical Society.6

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  1. "Sujit Datta - Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering". cce.caltech.edu. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
  2. "Cells Blaze Their Own Trails to Navigate Through the Body". Quanta Magazine. 2022.
  3. "Bacterial 'cables' form a living gel in mucus". Physics World.
  4. "Why Some Fluids Flow Slower when Pushed Harder". Scientific American.
  5. "'Our lab discovered ambient fluid flows like rain transport microplastics across large distances'". Times of India.
  6. "Reviews of Modern Physics new chief editor is connecting fields". American Physical Society. 2025.
  7. "Apker Recipients Study Graphene, Quantum Information Theory". www.aps.org. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
  8. "2020 Awards – 94th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium". colloids2020.blogs.rice.edu. Rice University.
  9. Ellis, Gordon (16 October 2023). "Sujit Datta Is AIChE's 2023 Allan P. Colburn Award Recipient". chenected.aiche.org. American Institute of Chemical Engineers.