Dr. Udoy Sankar Basak

Profile

Academic position	Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fields	Statistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics,Mathematics in biology and other natural sciences
Keywords	Leader-Follower, Transfer Entropy, Locust Swarm, Particle Image Velocimetry, Collective Migration
Honours and awards	2017: Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship

Current contact address

Country	Germany
City	Radolfzell
Institution	Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie
Institute	Abteilung für Kollektivverhalten

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Liang Li	Abteilung für Kollektivverhalten, Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie, Radolfzell
Start of initial sponsorship	01/03/2025

Programme(s)

2024	Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026	Sulimon Sattari, Md. Motaleb Hossain, Udoy S. Basak, Mikito Toda, Takeharu Nagai, Satoshi Sawai, Kazuki Horikawa & Tamiki Komatsuzaki: Collective surfing of single cells on a chemo-attractant wave using multiscale Eulerian velocity vector field. In: Scientific Reports, 16, 2026,
2026	Udoy S. Basak, Sulimon Sattari, Iacopo Hachen, Iain D. Couzin & Liang Li: Decoding Spatial and Temporal Influence in Collective Behavior Using Information Theory. Springer Nature, 2026
2026	Md. Ekramul Islam, Md. Abde Mannaf, Mst. Tania Khatun, Md. Azizur Rahman, M. Ali Akbar, Udoy S. Basak: Phase plane bifurcation analysis of water wave dynamics in the simplified modified Camassa–Holm model with friction and wind effects. In: Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, 11, 2026, 1-12