Prof. Anupam Sengupta holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (India). After a short stint in German industry, Anupam joined the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen (Germany), where in 2013, he received a PhD with summa cum laude in condensed matter physics for his work on liquid crystal microfluidics.

Between 2014 and 2017, Anupam was a Human Frontier Cross-Disciplinary Fellow, first at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and then at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland), working on a range of fundamental and applied problems on the physical ecology of microorganisms, combining fieldwork and laboratory investigations. Since 2018, Anupam is based in Luxembourg where his multi-disciplinary team combines material physics, microbiology, mathematical modelling and machine learning to understand and harness response and adaptation of microorganisms to different dynamic settings, from marine and fresh water ecosystems to the human gut and cancer environments.

Anupam is an elected member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Luxembourg, and among other roles, serves as the Director of the Undergraduate Physics Studies of the University of Luxembourg.