Debasish Chaudhuri (Associate Professor - G)

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Area of Research: Condensed matter theory: Soft and Biological Matter

Joining Date: 01/02/2016

Biosketch
  • Email: debc[at]iopb[dot]res[dot]in
  • Telephones :+91-674-230-6429 (Office)
    +91-674-230-6629 (Residence)

Selected Publications

  • Exact Methods for Active Matter

    1. A. Shee, A. Dhar, and D. Chaudhuri, “Active Brownian particles: Mapping to equilibrium polymers and exact computation of moments,” Soft Matter 16, 4776 (2020).
    2. D. Chaudhuri and A. Dhar, “Active Brownian particle in harmonic trap: Exact computation of moments, and re-entrant transition,” J. Stat. Mech. (2021), 13207 (2021).
    3. A. Shee and D. Chaudhuri, “Active Brownian motion with speed fluctuations in arbitrary dimensions: Exact calculation of moments and dynamical crossovers,” J. Stat. Mech. (2022), 013201 (2022).
    4. M. Patel and D. Chaudhuri, “Exact moments and re-entrant transitions in the inertial dynamics of active Brownian particles,” New J. Phys. 25, 123048 (2023).
  • Collective Active Matter

    1. B. Bhattacherjee, D. Chaudhuri, “Re-entrant motility induced phase separation in nematically aligning active polar particles,” Soft Matter 15, 8483 (2019).
    2. A. Sinha and D. Chaudhuri, “Activity-induced phase transition and coarsening dynamics in dry apolar active nematics,” Soft Matter 20, 8078–8088 (2024).
    3. R. Kumar, S. S. Mishra, and D. Chaudhuri, “Finite-time orientational relaxation restructures collective motion in polar active matter,” J. Chem. Phys. 165, 104110 (2026).
  • Physics of Living Systems

    1. Debasish Chaudhuri, A. Nagar, “Absence of jamming in ant trails: Feedback control of self propulsion and noise,” Phys. Rev. E 91, 12706 (2015).
    2. P. Swain, B. M. Mulder, D. Chaudhuri, “Confinement and crowding control the morphology and dynamics of a model bacterial chromosome,” Soft Matter 15, 2677 (2019).
    3. F. Wu, P. Swain, L. Kuijpers, X. Zheng, K. Felter, M. Guurink, J. Solari, S. Jun, T. S. Shimizu, D. Chaudhuri, B. M. Mulder, and C. Dekker, “Cell boundary confinement sets the size and position of the E. coli chromosome,” Current Biology 29, 2131–2144.e4 (2019).
    4. S. Ghosh, S. Gutti, and D. Chaudhuri, “Pattern formation, pulsation and traveling wave on active spherical membranes,” Soft Matter 17, 10614 (2021).
    5. R. Kumar, R. Srinivasan, and D. Chaudhuri, “Mechanistic insights into Z-ring formation and stability: A Langevin dynamics approach to FtsZ self-assembly,” Phys. Rev. X Life 3, 013009 (2025).
    6. A. Shee, V. Sabharwal, S. P. Koushika, A. Nandi, and D. Chaudhuri, “Transport properties of the motor protein UNC-104 are robust and independent of changes in its cargo binding,” Phys. Rev. E 111, 064404 (2025). [Editors’ Choice]
  • Stochastic Thermodynamics

    1. C. Ganguly, D. Chaudhuri, “Stochastic thermodynamics of active Brownian particles,” Phys. Rev. E 88, 32102 (2013).
    2. D. Chaudhuri, “Active Brownian particles: Entropy production and fluctuation-response,” Phys. Rev. E 90, 22131 (2014).
    3. S. Bandopadhyay, A. M. Jayannavar, and D. Chaudhuri, “Rotational Brownian motion: Trajectory, reversibility and stochastic entropy,” J. Stat. Phys. 168, 549 (2017).

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Group Members

Areas of Interest

    Cell biology – cytoplasm, bacterial chromosome,neural growth; Non-equilibriuam statistical mechanics – Stochasticthermodynamics, active particles; Soft matter – colloids, polymers,effect of confinement

Experience

  • December, 2011 to January, 2016 Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
  • 2009 to 2011Postdoc at FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam
  • 2006 to 2009Guest Scientist at MPI-PKS, Dresden