Debasish Chaudhuri

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• 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

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

• "Re-entrant phase separation in nematically aligning active polar particles", Biplab Bhattacherjee and Debasish Chaudhuri, Soft Matter 15, 8483–8495 (2019).
• "Cell Boundary Confinement Sets the Size and Position of the E. coli Chromosome", Fabai Wu, Pinaki Swain, Louis Kuijpers, ..., Debasish Chaudhuri, Bela Mulder, Cees Dekker, Current Biology 29, 1 (2019); doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.015
• "Confinement and crowding control the morphology and dynamics of a model bacterial chromosome", Pinaki Swain, Bela M. Mulder, and Debasish Chaudhuri, Soft Matter 15, 2677 (2019).
• Invited chapter on “Molecular dynamics simulations of a feather-boa model of bacterial chromosome”, by Debasish Chaudhuri, and Bela M Mulder in the Springer Protocols on "Bacterial Chromatin", edited by Remus T. Dame.
• Chaudhuri, D. "Entropy production by active particles: Coupling of oddand even functions of velocity". Phys. Rev. E 94, 32603 (2016).
• Chaudhuri, A. & Chaudhuri, D. "Forced desorption of semiflexiblepolymers, adsorbed and driven by molecular motors", Soft Matter 12,2157–2165 (2016).
• Chakraborty, D. & Chaudhuri, D. "Stochastic ratcheting of twodimensional colloids: Directed current and dynamical transitions", Phys.Rev. E 91, 050301(R) (2015).
• Chaudhuri, D., Raju, A. & Dhar, A. "Pumping single-file colloids :Absence of current reversal", Phys. Rev. E 91, 050103(R) (2015).
• Chaudhuri, D. "Active Brownian particles: Entropy production andfluctuation response", Phys. Rev. E 90, 22131 (2014).
• Ganguly, C. & Chaudhuri, D. "Stochastic thermodynamics of activeBrownian particles", Phys. Rev. E 88, 32102 (2013).
• Chaudhuri, D. & Mulder, B. M. "Spontaneous Helicity of a Polymer withSide Loops Confined to a Cylinder", Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 268305 (2012).
• Chaudhuri, D., Borowski, P. & Zapotocky, M. "Model of fasciculation andsorting in mixed populations of axons", Phys. Rev. E 84, 21908 (2011).
• Chaudhuri, D. & Dhar, A. "Stochastic pump of interacting particles",Europhysics Lett. 94, 30006 (2011).
• Chaudhuri, D. "Semiflexible polymers: Dependence on ensemble andboundary orientations", Phys. Rev. E 75, 21803 (2007).
• Chaudhuri, D. & Dhar, A. "Heat conduction in a confined solid strip:Response to external strain", Phys. Rev. E 74, 16114 (2006).
• Chaudhuri, D. & Sengupta, S. "A numerical renormalization group studyof laser-induced freezing", Europhys. Lett. 67, 814–819 (2004).
• Chaudhuri, D. & Sengupta, S. "Constrained Deformation of a ConfinedSolid: Anomalous Failure by Nucleation of Smectic Bands", Phys. Rev. Lett.93, 115702 (2004).
• Dhar, A. & Chaudhuri, D. "Triple minima in the free energy ofsemiflexible polymers", Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 65502 (2002).