Brief CV
dr. Debasish Chaudhuri
Associate Professor G,
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar
Previous Positions
•Assistant Professor, IIT-Hyderabad, December, 2011 to Jan, 2016.
• Postdoc at FOM institute AMOLF, Amsterdam -- July 2009 to November 2011
• Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS), Dresden, Germany, June 2006 to June 2009
Education
• Ph. D. (Physics) : S N National Center for Basic Sciences, June 2006
Thesis title “Equilibrium and Transport Properties of Constrained Systems”
Research interests:
• biological physics: chromosome organization, filament- motor protein complex
• soft and active matter:: semi flexible filaments, colloids, active Brownian particle, active polymers, stochastic thermodynamics of active matter
Publications: for a detailed list see
Selected publications
- “Pattern formation, localized and running pulsation on active spherical membranes”. Ghosh, S., Gutti, S. & Chaudhuri, D., Soft Matter 17, 10614–10627 (2021); Appeared on Soft Matter cover
- “Cell boundary confinement sets the size and position of the E. coli chromosome”, F Wu, P Swain, L Kuijpers, X Zheng, K Felter, M Guurink, J Solari, S Jun, T. Shimizu, D. Chaudhuri, B. Mulder, C. Dekker, Current Biology 29, 2131-2144. e4 (2019).
- Book Chapter: “Molecular dynamics simulations of a feather-boa model of bacterial chromosome”, D. Chaudhuri and B. M Mulder, in Bacterial Chromatin edited by RemusT. Dame (2018),
- 4.“Absence of jamming in ant trails: Feedback control of self-propulsion and noise”, D. Chaudhuri, Apoorva Nagar, Phys. Rev. E.91, 012706 (2015). (News appeared in NPR, Frontline & The Independent)
- “Active Brownian particles: Entropy production and fluctuation response”, D. Chaudhuri Phys Rev E 90, 022131 (2014).
- “Spontaneous helicity of a polymer with side-loops confined to a cylinder”, D. Chaudhuri, Bela Mulder, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 268305 (2012).
- “A model of fasciculation and sorting in mixed population of axons”, D. Chaudhuri, Peter Borowski, and Martin Zapotocky, Phys. Rev. E. 84, 021908 (2011).
- “Semiflexible polymers: Dependence on ensemble and boundary orientations", D. Chaudhuri, Phys. Rev. E 75, 021803 (2007).
- “Constrained Deformation of a Confined Solid: Anomalous Failure by Nucleation of Smectic Bands", D. Chaudhuri, Surajit Sengupta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 115702 (2004).
- “Triple Minima in the Free Energy of Semiflexible Polymers", Abhishek Dhar, D. Chaudhuri, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 065502 (2002)