Asmit Bhowmick
Research Scientist at Berkeley Lab
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolAsmit Bhowmick is a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with 11 years of experience probing how enzymes work at the atomic scale using X-ray crystallography, time-resolved experiments at XFELs and synchrotrons, and QM/MD simulations. He combines hands-on structural biology with computational modeling and machine learning to unravel metalloenzyme mechanisms—most notably photosystem II—aiming to translate nature’s design principles into engineered catalysts for chemical and environmental applications. Trained as a chemical engineer (PhD, UC Berkeley; BTech, IIT Kharagpur), he bridges experimental and theoretical approaches and has developed novel crystallography analysis methods for dynamic studies. Colleagues cite his international collaborations and quantitative rigor; less obvious is his focus on integrating time-resolved data and atomistic simulations to derive actionable engineering rules for synthetic systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Technology - BTech, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (16)
crystallography10
docking10
mass-spectrometry10
cpp10
diffraction10
molecular-simulation10
infrared10
toolbox10
structural-biology10
python9
hpc4
exascale4
journal3
creative-commons2
academia2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
asmit3/LS49_project
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
asmit3/SoftwareEngg_Fall15
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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