We try to understand how complex behaviors emerge in biological systems at different scales of organizations, starting from the sub-cellular and cellular scale to the tissue and organismic level. At all these scales, biological systems are generally characterized by a large set of interconnected physical and chemical processes that drive the system out of equilibrium. Our method of investigation of such systems is theoretical and computational model building (using tools of statistical physics) and data analysis, in close collaboration with experimental biologists. Some specific areas of interest include: (1) Biophysics and tissue mechanics in embryonic developmental processes, (2) Stochastic dynamics of cytoskeletal filaments and molecular motors, (3) Stochastic gene expression, (4) Population dynamics of interacting micro-organisms, (5) Models of intracellular transport, and (6) Pattern formation in biology.

1. PhD (Physics), IIT Bombay, 2014
2. MSc (Physics), IIT Bombay, 2009
3. BSc (Physics), Jadavpur University, 2007

1. Associate Professor, (current)
2. Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata
3. Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Connecticut, USA (2014 - 2018)

1. SERB International Research Experience Fellowship from Science and Engineering Research Board (Government of India) (2022)
2. SERB Early Career Award from Science and Engineering Research Board (Government of India) (2019)
3. Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship from Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. (2019)

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