July 2022

Dr. Chittaranjan Hens has joined Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) as an  Assistant Professor – Inspire. His research interests are in Network science, nonlinear dynamics, and statistical physics, epidemics spreading, and epileptic seizure propagation in the human brain. His research area bridges Applied Mathematics and Statistical Physics to capture the emerging behavior, particularly by connecting the tools of nonlinear dynamics and complex networks.  Important examples of this behavior in the real world include epileptic brain dynamics and the spreading of diseases. 

Dr. Chittaranjan Hens received his Ph.D in Physics from CSIR – Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata and went on to work as a PBC-postdoctoral fellow at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Prior to joining CCNSB at IIITH Dr. Hens was a DST-INSPIRE faculty at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata and as part of DST-INSPIRE  faculty curriculum, he  visited the department of Epileptology, Bonn University. 

Dr.  Hens has made contributions to the study of extreme multistability in coupled oscillators, as well as the signal propagation in complex networks. He has published peer-reviewed papers in Nature Physics, Physical Review E,  Nature Scientific Reports, Royal Society Interface, etc that have received a lot of positive feedback from the target groups and have inspired additional research.