Sujit Datta

Sujit Datta is a Canadian-American interdisciplinary scientist. He is currently a professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering, and biophysics at the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the physics of soft and living matter, including complex fluids, porous media, and microbial systems.^[1]

Datta has held faculty appointments at Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology. In 2025, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Reviews of Modern Physics, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Physical Society.^[2]

Datta's work has been recognized by multiple professional societies, including the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the Society of Rheology, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. His research has been covered in Quanta Magazine,^[3] Physics World,^[4] the Scientific American,^[5] and the Times of India.^[6]

Honors and awards

• LeRoy Apker Award (2008)^[7]
• ACS Unilever Award (2020)^[8]
• Allan P. Colburn Award (2023)^[9]

References

1. "Sujit Datta - Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering". cce.caltech.edu. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
2. "Reviews of Modern Physics new chief editor is connecting fields". American Physical Society. 2025.
3. "Cells Blaze Their Own Trails to Navigate Through the Body". Quanta Magazine. 2022.
4. "Bacterial 'cables' form a living gel in mucus". Physics World.
5. "Why Some Fluids Flow Slower when Pushed Harder". Scientific American.
6. "'Our lab discovered ambient fluid flows like rain transport microplastics across large distances'". Times of India.
7. "Apker Recipients Study Graphene, Quantum Information Theory". www.aps.org. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
8. "2020 Awards – 94th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium". colloids2020.blogs.rice.edu. Rice University.
9. Ellis, Gordon (16 October 2023). "Sujit Datta Is AIChE's 2023 Allan P. Colburn Award Recipient". chenected.aiche.org. American Institute of Chemical Engineers.