Brief CV
1997-2003: Ph.D. student at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Mustansir Barma
2003-2005: Postdoc at University of Koeln, Germany
In the group of Prof. Joachim Krug
2005-2007: Postdoc at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
In the group of Prof. David Mukamel
2007-present: Faculty Fellow at JNCASR, India
Group members and Visitors Teaching
Research Interests and Publications
Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics:
While the systems with equilibrium steady states are well studied, much less is known about nonequilibrium systems which are characterised by a nonzero current. I am interested in systems driven far-from-equilibrium due to some external current and out-of-equilibrium systems relaxing towards a steady state. We study models that are paradigms of phase transitions and phenomena which do not have equilibrium analogue. Examples include condensation transitions, absorbing-state transitions and particle pumping.
Theoretical Evolutionary Biology:
In this field, we are interested in the evolutionary dynamics of simple biological organisms under the influence of various evolutionary forces such as selection, mutation and genetic drift. We apply statistical mechanics ideas such as scaling theory and extreme value statistics to study deterministic and stochastic models of biological evolution. Some of the broad questions we are interested in concerns the evolution of sex and recombination, and mutation rates.
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