Debasish Banerjee did his PhD at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai, India) on the physics at finite temperature and density of strongly interacting matter. His contributions to the studies of diffusion constant of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma and novel algorithmic techniques to study finite density bosonic systems were well appreciated by the community. During his first postdoctoral position, he collaborated with Uwe-Jens Wiese and Peter Zoller to propose (among) the first simulators to study phenomenology of strong interaction physics. Subsequently, he had postdoctoral positions at DESY, Zeuthen, a visiting position at Max Planck Institute for the physics of complex systems at Dresden, a German Science Foundation funded position at the Humboldt University with himself as the PI, and then a permanent position at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. Debasish has since then worked in various related areas of effective field theories, conformal field theories, aspects of thermalization and lack thereof in strongly interacting gauge theories.