Deb Panja

I am Deb Panja, Associate Professor of Simulations of Complex Systems at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences. I am a Complex Systems scientist. I develop models and methods to analyse a wide range of real-world (complex) systems, for example, in biology, complex fluids, ecology, economic complexity, epidemiology, network science, neuroscience and transport.

Key Recent Publications

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Event-based spatiotemporal networks for modelling emergent phenomena in complex systems
Matthijs Romeijnders, Michiel van Boven, Francesco Corman, Carl D. Modes, Phillip Staniczencko, Debabrata Panja
Nature Communications 17, 7007 (2026)
Risk mapping novel respiratory pathogens with large-scale dynamic contact networks
Matthijs Romeijnders, Michiel van Boven, Debabrata Panja
Communications Medicine 6, 229 (2026)
Critical fragility in socio-technical systems
José Moran, Frank P. Pijpers, Utz Weitzel, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Debabrata Panja
PNAS 122, e2415139122 (2025)
Timeliness criticality in Complex Systems
José Moran, Matthijs Romeinders, Frank P. Pijpers, Utz Weitzel, Debabrata Panja, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Nature Physics 20, 1352-1358 (2024)
Temporal origin of nestedness in interaction networks
Phillip P. A. Staniczenko, Debabrata Panja
PNAS Nexus 2, pgad412 (2023)
Reducing societal impacts of SARS-CoV-2 interventions through subnational implementation
Mark M. Dekker, Luc E. Coffeng, Frank P. Pijpers, Debabrata Panja, Sake J. de Vlas
eLife 12, e80819 (2023)
Hidden dependence of spreading vulnerability on topological complexity
Mark M. Dekker, Jiamin Ou, Raoul D. Schramm and Debabrata Panja
Physical Review E 105, 054301 (2022)
Cascading dominates large-scale disruptions in transport over complex networks
Mark M. Dekker and Debabrata Panja
PLOS ONE 16, e0246077 (2021)