University of Pennsylvania, Ph. D. (Biophysics), 1994
University of Rochester, M. A. (Physics), 1989
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, M. Sc. (Physics), 1987
EXPRIENCE
Fellow, Dept. of Chemical sciences, Tata Institute of fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, 1998-present
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Indian institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1997
Post Doctoral Fellow (with Prof. Watt W. Webb), Cornell University, 1994 – 1997, 1997-1998 [research on multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; investigating in vivo detection, transport and folding of biomolecules]
Graduate Research Assistant (with Profs. R. M. Hochstrasser and P. L. Dutton), University of Pennsylvania, 1992-1994 [investigated the dynamics of protein molecules with femtosecond vibrational laser spectroscopy]
Biomedical Graduate Studies Graduate Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1990-1992
Graduate Research Assistant (with Prof. R. S. Knox), University of Rochester, 1988-1989 [investigated solitonic energy transport in proteins]
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Rochester, 1987-1988, 1989-1990
AWARDS
Wellcome Trust Senior Overseas Research Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences, 2000-2005
Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Rochester, 1990
National Scholarship and State Merit Award, W.B. Board of Secondary Education, 1980
Dept. of Chemical sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India
P. Sengupta, Balaji, J., Mukherjee, S., Philip, R., Ravindra Kumar, G. and and S. Maiti, "Determination of the absolute two-photon absorption cross section of tryptophan,"Proceedings of SPIE 4262, 336 (2001).
J. Balaji, Sengupta, P., and Maiti, S., "Probing diffusion and photochemical properties through localized photobleaching," Proceedings of SPIE 4262, 329 (2001).
P. Sengupta, J. Balaji, S. Banerjee, R. Philip, G. Ravindra Kumar, and S. Maiti, "Sensitive measurement of absolute two-photon absorption cross sections," J. Chem. Phys. 112 (21), 9201-9205 (2000).
P. Schwille, U. Haupts, S. Maiti, and W. W. Webb, "Molecular Dynamics in Living Cells Observed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy with One- and Two-photon Excitation", Biophys. J.77 (1999) 2251-2265
R. M. Williams, J. B. Shear, W. R. Zipfel, S. Maiti, and W. W. Webb, "Mucosal Mast Cell Secretion Processes Imaged Using Three-Photon Microscopy of 5-Hydroxytryptamine Autofluorescence", Biophys. J.76 (1999) 1835-1846
U. Haupts, S. Maiti, P. Schwille, and W. W. Webb, "Dynamics of fluorescent fluctuations in green fluorescent protein observed by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95 (1998) 13573-13578.
S.Maiti, U. Haupts and W. W. Webb, "Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: Diagnostics for sparse molecules", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 94 (1997) 11753-11757
S. Maiti, Jason B. Shear, W. R. Zipfel, R. M. Williams, and Watt W. Webb, ""Measuring serotonin distribution in live cells with three-photon excitation", Science275 (1997) 530
R. Diller, S. Maiti, G. C. Walker, B. R. Cowen, R. Pippenger, R. A. Bogomolni, and R. M. Hochstrasser, "Femtosecond time resolved infrared laser study of bacteriorhodopsin", Chem. Phys. Lett. 241 (1995) 109
S. Maiti, G. C. Walker, B. R. Cowen, R. Pippenger, C. C. Moser, P. L. Dutton, and R. M. Hochstrasser, "Femtosecond coherent transient infrared spectroscopy of reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA91 (1994) 10360
G. C. Walker, S. Maiti, B. R. Cowen, C. C. Moser, P. L. Dutton, and R. M. Hochstrasser, "Time Resolution of Infrared Electronic Transitions in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center", J. Phys. Chem. 88 (1994), 5778
S. Maiti, B. R. Cowen, R. Diller, M. Iannone, C. C. Moser, P. L. Dutton, and R. M. Hochstrasser, "Picosecond Infrared Studies of the Dynamics of the Photosynthetic Reacton Center", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 90 (1993) 5247
R. M. Hochstrasser, B. R. Cowen, P. L. Dutton, C. Galli, S. Lecours, S. Maiti, C. C. Moser, D. Raftery, M. Therien, G. C. Walker and K. Wynne, "Vibrational Dynamics in Condensed Phases and Proteins", in International Conference on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy VI, Springer Proc. Physics, A. Lau, F. Siebert, W. Werncke, eds. (Springer, Berlin), 1993
B. R. Cowen, T. Lian, G. C. Walker, S. Maiti, C. C. Moser, B. R. Locke, P. L. Dutton, and R. M. Hochstrasser, "Femtosecond Infrared Probes of Biomolecules", in Recent Advances in Photosciences, M. Yoon and P. -S. Song eds., Proceedings of International Symposium on Photochemistry, Photobiology and Photomedicine, Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea, 1993
G. C. Walker, B. R. Cowen, S. Maiti, C. C. Moser, P. L. Dutton, and R. M. Hochstrasser, "Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules", 4th International Conference on Laser Applications in Life Sciences, SPIE (1992)1921
R. Diller, M. Iannone, B. R. Cowen, S. Maiti, J. Owrutski, M. Li, M. Sarisky, Y. R. Kim, B. Locke, T. Lian and R. M. Hochstrasser, "Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Protein Dynamics", in Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy V, ed. H. Takahashi (Springer-Verlag), 1992
R. M. Hochstrasser, R. Diller, S. Maiti, T. Lian, B. Locke, C. C. Moser, P. L. Dutton, B. R. Cowen, and G. C. Walker, "Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy of Protein Dynamics", in Ultrafast Phenomena VIII, eds. J. -L. Martin, A. Migus, G. Mourou, and A. H. Zewail, Springer Series in Chemical Physics (Springer-Verlag), (1993) 55
R. Diller, M. Iannone, B. R. Cowen, S. Maiti, R. A. Bogomolni, and R. M. Hochstrasser, "Picoseond Dynamics of Bacteriorhodopsin Probed by Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy", Biochemistry31 (1992) 5567
J. C. Owrutsky, R. Diller, M. Iannone, B. R. Cowen, S. Maiti, M. Li, M. Sarisky, Y. R. Kim, B. Locke, T. Lian, and R. M. Hochstrasser, "Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecules in Condensed Phases", SPIE1599 (1991) 52
M. Iannone, B. R. Cowen, R. Diller, S. Maiti, and R. M. Hochstrasser, "High Repetition Rate Infrared Pump, Infrare Probe Spectrometer", Applied Optics, 30 (1991) 5247
R. Diller, M. Iannone, B. R. Cowen, S. Maiti, R. Bogomolni, and R. M. Hochstrasser, "Ultrafast Infrared Study of Bacteriorhodopsin", in Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules, eds. R. E. Hester, and R. B. Girling, Proc. of the Fourth European Conference (York, England) 1991
P. Wu, S. Maiti and R. S. Knox, in "Davydov's Soliton Revisited : Self-Trappping of Vibrational Energy in Protein", NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Self-Trapping of Vibrational Energy in Protein, ed. P. L. Christiansen and A. C. Scott, (Plenum Press, New York), 1990