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Debashish Chowdhury
PhD (IIT Kanpur)
Professor, Department of Physics
FB-385,
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Specialization
Statistical- and Biological- Physics (Theory):
Applications of statistical physics to stochastic biological processes.
Education
PhD, IIT Kanpur (1984)
M.Sc., IIT Kharagpur (1980)
Selected Publications
D. Chowdhury,"SPIN GLASSES and OTHER FRUSTRATED SYSTEMS", (385 pages) Pub. in North America by PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, (USA) (Princeton series in Physics edited by A. S. Wightman and P.W. Anderson) and elsewhere by WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., Singapore (1986).
D. Chowdhury, L. Santen and A. Schadschneider, "Statistical physics of vehicular traffic and some related systems". PHYSICS REPORTS (Elsevier), vol.329, 199-329 (2000).
K. Nishinari, Y. Okada, A. Schadschneider and D. Chowdhury, "Intra-cellular transport of single-headed molecular motors KIF1A". PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (APS, USA) , vol.95, 118101 (2005) .
Garai, D. Chowdhury, D. Chowdhury and T.V. Ramakrishnan, "Stochastic kinetics of ribosomes: Single motor properties and collective behavior". PHYSICAL REVIEW E (APS, USA) vol.80, 011908 (2009).
D. Chowdhury "Stochastic mechano-chemical kinetics of molecular motors: a multidisciplinary enterprise from a physicist's perspective". PHYSICS REPORTS (Elsevier), vol. 529, 1-197 (2013). (197 pages)
Awards & Fellowships
Elected Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi
Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore
Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), Allahabad
J.C. Bose National Fellowship, SERB/DST, India
INSA Young Scientist medal, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.