Dynamics of
Living Systems

Unifying across scales

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Our research rests on five intertwined commitments — from process-first thinking to responsible translation.

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Process over system

What rules of interaction give rise to structure, cooperation, conflict, resilience, or collapse?

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Eco-evolutionary-learning dynamics

Ecology, evolution and learning as coupled feedback systems on overlapping timescales.

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Theory as a generative engine

Insight preceding application — conceptual clarity before intervention.

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Cross-scale curiosity

From genes to societies — how higher-order structure arises from lower-level interactions.

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Responsible translation

Connecting to resistance, agriculture, disease control, and cultural systems.

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Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Chaitanya S. Gokhale
Professor - Theoretical Biology
"I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, ..."
 Dharanish Rajendra
Dharanish Rajendra
PhD Student
JR
Judith Rautenberg
Bachelors's Student
 Luis Alejandro Villanueva Hernández
Luis Alejandro Villanueva Hernández
Postdoc
 Mike Klaus
Mike Klaus
PhD Student
RS
Rwitacheta Sinha
Master's Student (Remote)
 Sagnik Haldar
Sagnik Haldar
Bachelor's Student (Remote)
"Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form becau..."
 Vasudha Kulkarni
Vasudha Kulkarni
PhD Student
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2026 PREPRINT
On the evolution of emergence patterns driven by environmental cycles
Dharanish Rajendra, Jule Neumann, Tobias S. Kaiser, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
bioRxiv
chronobiology life history
2026 PREPRINT
Cross-Species Comparisons of Individual Differences in Social Behaviour: Methodological Challenges and Solutions
Simon M. Breil, Aparajitha Ramesh, Barbara A. Caspers, Isabel Damas-Moreira, Uljana Feest, Marie I. Kaiser, Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Jessica Coenen, Melanie Dammhahn, Laura Diprossimo, Ahana Aurora Fernandez, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Tobias Hecker, Joseph I. Hoffman, Joscha Kärtner, Oliver Krüger, Niclas Kuper, Joachim Kurtz, Sakari Lemola, Claudia Massaccesi, Denis Meuthen, Sina Mews, Benjamin Risse, Lukas Röseler, Ramona Schoedel, Ricarda I. Schubotz, Sophie Siestrup, Mitja D. Back
Zenodo
behavioural ecology
2026
Candidozyma auris (Candida auris) as a harbinger of novel fungal pathogens
Carla E. Schuh, Chaitanya S. Gokhale
mSphere
microbial disease & health
2026
Host-initiated microbial association leads to stable ectosymbiosis in an ecological model
Nandakishore Krishnan, István Zachar, Ádám Kun, Chaitanya S. Gokhale, József Garay
PLOS Computational Biology
species interactions mutualism & symbiosis microbial
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