Aditya Nandy

Biography

Aditya Nandy joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA as an Assistant Professor in July of 2025. Prior to joining UCLA, he earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley. At UC Berkeley, he was an experimental solid-state NMR spectroscopist, working with Prof. Jeffrey A. Reimer on metal-organic frameworks. As a graduate student, he switched fields and obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from MIT in 2023 where he was trained by Prof. Heather J. Kulik, studying transition metal complexes and metal-organic frameworks using quantum chemical and data driven methods. After his Ph.D., he moved towards studying biological systems. Aditya was a Schmidt AI+Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he was trained jointly by Prof. Benoît Roux, Prof. Eduardo Perozo, and Prof. Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan. His postdoctoral research focused on bridging atomistic membrane protein models with continuum cellular models to understand mechanics of hearing. Outside of science, he enjoys taking long walks, visiting coffee shops, talking with friends, and cooking.
 

Research

Aditya Nandy is a theorist and computationalist. His interests lie in understanding how materials and biological systems undergo reactivity or respond to external perturbations. His goal is to use chemical engineering principles to understand the behavior of these systems across multiple time and length scales, to understand how microscopic interactions or behavior may lead to phenomena at the mesoscale. Aditya’s research is at the intersection of quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, continuum mechanics, and data science. He and his group use tools from both applied mathematics and machine learning to solve these chemical / biophysical problems. He is interested in these phenomena for both biological systems (i.e. proteins / RNAs) and materials systems (i.e. porous materials and transition metal complexes).