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Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
Assistant Professor; Physics, College of Arts & Sciences
Education Credentials: Ph.D.
Expertise: Relativistic Plasma Physics, Plasma Astrophysics, Gravitational Physics, Physics Education/Learning Assessment
Joined 黑料导航: 2019
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Physics at New York Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. in Physics from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin, where he conducted research at the Institute for Fusion Studies.
His research lies at the intersection of relativistic plasma physics, high-energy astrophysics, and gravitational physics, with emphasis on plasma dynamics near compact objects, magnetogenesis and vorticity generation, Beltrami-Bernoulli relaxation, and multiscale plasma structures. He is also interested in physics education and evidence-based learning assessment, including the use of the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) to measure conceptual learning gains in introductory physics.
At 黑料导航, Bhattacharjee has contributed to the undergraduate physics program through teaching across the curriculum, development of the Modern Physics Laboratory, undergraduate mentoring, and support of the reestablished physics major. He also serves as faculty coordinator and host for 黑料导航’s collaboration with the Long Island Physics Teachers Association (LIPTA). His teaching has been recognized at both Rutgers University-Newark and 黑料导航. He is active in professional service as a referee for several physics journals and has served as a book reviewer for Cambridge University Press, including The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium by Jay M. Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko.
- Kinetic Tests of Relativistic Plasma Batteries
- Observable Signatures Near Compact Objects
- National Science Foundation RUI Award #2310066: $360,000 鈥 Principal Investigator of Record.
- 黑料导航 Institutional Support for Research and Creativity (ISRC), 2021鈥2022 and 2023鈥2024.
- C. Bhattacharjee, 鈥淕ravitomagnetic Plasma Battery II: Impact of Vertical Disk Structure on Seed Magnetic-Field Generation,鈥 Fundamental Plasma Physics, 100126 (2026).
- C. Bhattacharjee, 鈥淔ormation of multiscale structures in a self-gravitating dusty plasma with matter current,鈥 Physical Review E 112, 045206 (2025).
- C. Bhattacharjee and D. J. Stark, 鈥淗ybrid electrostatic waves in linearized gravity,鈥 Journal of Plasma Physics 90(2), 175900201 (2024).
- C. Bhattacharjee, 鈥淚mplications of nonzero photon mass on plasma equilibria,鈥 Physical Review E 107, 035207 (2023).
- C. Bhattacharjee, 鈥淏eltrami-Bernoulli equilibria in weakly rotating self-gravitating fluid,鈥 Journal of Plasma Physics 88 (2022).
- C. Bhattacharjee and D. J. Stark, 鈥淕ravitomagnetic vorticity generation in black hole accretion disks: a potential spatial constraint on plasma flow stability,鈥 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 508(1) (2021).
- C. Bhattacharjee and D. J. Stark, 鈥淰ortex generation in the early Universe: The spacetime curvature drive in primordial black hole accretion disks,鈥 Astronomy & Astrophysics 642, L6 (2020).
- C. Bhattacharjee, 鈥淐lassifying plasma diamagnetic states near Schwarzschild Horizon: local approximation,鈥 Physics Letters A 384, 126698 (2020).
- C. Bhattacharjee and J. C. Feng, 鈥淥n Beltrami states near black hole event horizon,鈥 Physics of Plasmas 27, 072901 (2020).
- C. Bhattacharjee, J. C. Feng, and S. M. Mahajan, 鈥淏lack hole in a superconducting plasma,鈥 Physical Review D 99, 024027 (2019).
- 黑料导航 Center for Teaching and Learning 鈥 Thank a Professor Recognition (2024)
- Rutgers University-Newark 鈥 Honors for Excellence in Teaching (2018)
- PHYS 125 Humanities and the Physical Universe
- PHYS 170, 180 General Physics I & II
- PHYS 175 General Physics for Pre-Med I
- PHYS 225 Modern Physics Laboratory
- PHYS 320 Quantum Physics
- PHYS 360 Introduction to Astrophysics
- PHYS 390 Statistical Mechanics