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Rumi De

Rumi De

Position
Associate Professor
Location
Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata
Room No: Research Complex (1st Floor) - 112L

Research group

Research areas

  • Our group aims at addressing emergent problems in the interdisciplinary areas of physics and biology by using the tools from statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, and soft condensed matter physics. Our main focus is to develop theoretical and computational models to understand the underlying dynamics of active, out of equilibrium systems at various length and time scales spanning over subcellular processes to collective organizations of species.

  • PhD (Physics), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2006
  • M.Sc. (Physics), Raja Bazar Science College, University of Calcutta
  • B.Sc. (Physics), Serampore College, University of Calcutta
  • Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata, India (2019 - current)
  • Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata, India (2010 - 2018)
  • Visiting Scientist, Southampton University, Southampton, UK (2010 )
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University, Providence, USA (2008 - 2009)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (2006 - 2008)
  • IOP Trusted Reviewer (December, 2021)
  • Young Investigator Award from 6th World Congress of Biomechanics, Singapore (2010)
  • Feinberg Graduate Postdoctoral Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (2006)
  • One of the best participants award in seventh workshop on nonlinear dynamics and earthquake prediction, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (2003)
  • National Eligibility Test (NET) from University Grants Commission, Govt. of India (1999)
  1. Debangana Mukhopadhyay and Rumi De. 2022. "Growth kinetics and power laws indicate distinct mechanisms of cell-cell interactions in the aggregation process." Biophysical Journal, 121, 481-490. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2020.11.623
  2. Rumi De and Dipanjan Chakraborty, 2022. "Collective motion: Influence of local behavioural interactions among individuals." Journal of Biosciences, 47, 48. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-022-00277-4
  3. Rumi De and Partho Sakha De. 2022. "A brief overview on mechanosensing and stick-slip motion at the leading edge of migrating cellsb." Indian J. Phys., 96, 2629–2638. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-022-02297-0
  4. Vijay Kumar and Rumi De. 2021. "Efficient flocking: metric versus topological interactions." Royal Society Open Science, 8, 202158. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202158
  5. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sanchayan Bhunia, and Rumi De. 2020. "Survival chances of a prey swarm: how the cooperative interaction range affects the outcome." Scientific Reports, 10, 8362. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64084-3
  6. Partho Sakha De and Rumi De. 2019. "Stick-slip dynamics of migrating cells on viscoelastic substrates." Phys. Rev. E , 100, 12409. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.012409
  7. Debangana Mukhopadhyay and Rumi De. 2019. "Aggregation dynamics of active cells on non-adhesive substrate." Physical Biology, 16, 46006. DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ab1e76
  8. Rumi De. 2018. "A general model of focal adhesion orientation dynamics in response to static and cyclic stretch." Communications Biology (Springer Nature), 1, 81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0084-9
  9. Rumi De, Assaf Zemel, and Samuel. A. Safran. 2007. "Dynamics of cell orientation." Nature Physics, 3, 655-659. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys680
  10. Rumi De and G. Ananthakrishna. 2006. "Dynamics of the peel front and the nature of the acoustic emission during peeling of an adhesive tape." Physical Review Letters, 97, 165503. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.165503
SL NO Grant Title Sponsoring Agency Project Period
1 Theoretical study of the dynamics and mechanosensitivity of cell adhesion under time varying stretch Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, India March, 2015 - September 2018