Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Sciences
📍 AB1-3F12
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Research Area
Computational Soft and Biological Matter Physics
Research Interests
My research work focuses on understanding of biological and soft matter systems. More specifically, I am interested in mechanics of cells, physics of red blood cells, malaria biophysics, cell adhesion and active matter physics. I apply physics concepts and primarily use computational approaches such as molecular dynamics simulations, Brownian dynamics, Langevin dynamics, multi-particle collision dynamics, dissipative particle dynamics, and Monte Carlo simulations. These approaches enable me to model and simulate both, biological and soft matter systems at coarse-grained level, thereby allowing access to sufficiently large length- and time-scales.
2023 - 2023 : Assistant Professor - IIT-Palakkad
2021 – 2023: Postdoctoral Scientist, Saarland University, Germany
2018 – 2021: Postdoctoral Scientist, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
2013 – 2018: Postdoctoral Scientist, Heidelberg University, Germany
2010 - 2013 : PhD in Biophysics, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
2007 - 2009 : M.Sc in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India
Ana M Herrera-Rodr'iguez, Anil Kumar Dasanna, Csaba Daday, Eduardo R Cruz-Ch'u, Camilo Aponte-Santamar'ia, Ulrich S Schwarz and Frauke Gr"ater. The role of flow in the self-assembly of dragline spider silk proteins. Biophysical Journal 122(21):4241–4253, 2023.
Alexis Darras, Anil Kumar Dasanna, Thomas John, Gerhard Gompper, Lars Kaestner, Dmitry A Fedosov and Christian Wagner. Erythrocyte sedimentation: Collapse of a high-volume-fraction soft-particle gel. Physical Review Letters 128(8):088101, 2022.
Anil K Dasanna, Johannes Mauer, Gerhard Gompper and Dmitry Fedosov. Importance of viscosity contrast for the motion of erythrocytes in microcapillaries. Front. Phys 9:666913, 2021.
Anil K Dasanna, Gerhard Gompper and Dmitry A Fedosov. Stability of heterogeneous parallel-bond adhesion clusters under load. Phys. Rev. Research 2:043063, 2020.
Sebastian Hillringhaus*, Anil K Dasanna*, Gerhard Gompper and Dmitry A Fedosov. Stochastic bond dynamics facilitates alignment of malaria parasite at erythrocyte membrane upon invasion. eLife 9:e56500, 2020.
Anil Kumar Dasanna, Dmitry A Fedosov, Gerhard Gompper and Ulrich Sebastian Schwarz. State diagram for wall adhesion of red blood cells in shear flow: from crawling to flipping. Soft matter 15(27):5511–5520, 2019.
Christine Lansche*, Anil K Dasanna*, Katharina Quadt, Benjamin Fr"ohlich, Dimitris Missirlis, Marilou T'etard, Benoit Gamain, Bernd Buchholz, Cecilia P Sanchez, Motomu Tanaka and others. The sickle cell trait affects contact dynamics and endothelial cell activation in Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes. Communications biology 1(1):1–14, 2018.
Anil K Dasanna, Christine Lansche, Michael Lanzer and Ulrich S Schwarz. Rolling adhesion of schizont stage malaria-infected red blood cells in shear flow. Biophysical journal 112(9):1908–1919, 2017.
Anil Kumar Dasanna, Nicolas Destainville, John Palmeri and Manoel Manghi. Slow closure of denaturation bubbles in DNA: Twist matters. Physical Review E 87(5):052703, 2013.
Aridaman Pandit*, Anil Kumar Dasanna* and Somdatta Sinha. Multifractal analysis of HIV-1 genomes. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 62(2):756–763, 2012.