Debayan Chakraborty was born in Kolkata, India. He received his Bachelors of Science degree from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, in 2010, and Masters of Science degree from the University of Oxford in 2011. He carried out his doctoral research in the area of Theoretical Chemistry from 2012 to 2016, under the supervision of Prof. David J. Wales at the University of Cambridge. At present he is a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Texas at Austin with Prof. Thirumalai. His current research interests include developing coarse-grained models for studying the dynamics of DNA, intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), and DNA-protein interactions.