Debayan Mitra is an assistant professor of physics at Indiana University Bloomington. He hails from India, where he did his bachelor’s at Presidency University, Kolkata. After completing a master’s degree at École Polytechnique in France, he obtained his PhD at Princeton University, pioneering quantum gas microscopy with fermionic atoms. As a postdoc at Harvard University, he was part of a team that laser cooled the largest polyatomic molecule to date and trapped the triatomic molecule calcium monohydroxide. Recently, he worked as an associate research scientist at Columbia University, where he led the team that cooled and trapped the hydride molecule calcium monohydride. Currently, his research efforts are focused on building a quantum simulator with the fermionic molecule magnesium monofluoride and finding a candidate mercury-based polyatomic molecule for nuclear-anapole-moment measurement.
