Dr. Anil Kumar Dasanna
Assistant Professor, Physical Sciences

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, multiparticle 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.

• Alexis Darras, Anil K. Dasanna, Thomas John, Gerhard Gompper, Lars Kaestner, Dmitry A Fedosov, Christian Wagner ; Erythrocyte sedimentation: Collapse of a high-volume-fraction soft-particle gel, Phys. Rev. Lett 128, 088101 (2022).
  
• Anil K. Dasanna, Sebastian Hillringhaus, Gerhard Gompper, Dmitry A Fedosov ; Effect of malaria parasite shape on its alignment at erythrocyte membrane, eLife 10, e68818 (2021).
  
• Anil K. Dasanna, Johannes Mauer, Gerhard Gompper, Dmitry Fedosov ; Importance of viscosity contrast for the motion of erythrocytes in microcapillaries, Front. Phys. 9, 666913 (2021).
  
• Anil K. Dasanna, Christine Lansche, Michael Lanzer, Ulrich S Schwarz ; Rolling adhesion of schizont stage malaria-infected red blood cells in shear flow, Biophysical journal 112, 1908- 1919 (2017).
  
• Anil K. Dasanna, Nicolas Destainville, John Palmeri, Manoel Manghi ; Slow closure of denaturation bubbles in DNA: Twist matters, Phys. Rev. E 87, 052703 (2013).