Sarika Jalan is a Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Indore in Department of Physics. Before joining IIT Indore, Sarika was senior research scientist at NUS, Singapore. She did her PhD from Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad, followed by Postdoctorate at Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in Sciences, Leipzig, and Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems Dresden, Germany. Prof Jalan served as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computational Science (JOCS Elsevier) (2021-2025), and currently is section Editor for Chaos, Solitons and Fractals from January 2026.  She is elected executive member of Complex Systems Society, awarded with prestigious serb Power Fellow (2022-2025), and recently been nominated for founding cohort of INSA women associate (2026 - ).

Research Areas:

• Nonlinear dynamics of AI

• Synchronization

• Modelling power grid and finance

• Critical transitions in coupled dynamics

• Kuramoto oscillators

Publications (Google Scholar link)

Professional appointments:

• December 2017 - :  Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Indore 

• November- December 2022: Visiting Professor position at TU Berlin

• June-July 2022: Guest Scientist at Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden 

• February 2020 – January 2021: Visiting Scientist, IBS center for Theoretical physics, Daejeon South Korea 

• January 2018 – December 2020:  Editor, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

• October 2013 – November 2017:  Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Indore

• December 2010 - September 2013:  Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Indore

• 2008 - 2010:  Senior Research Scientist  National University of Singapore, Singapore 

• 2006 - 2008:  Guest Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

Editorial activities:

• Section Editor - Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (January 2026 - )

• Editor - European Physics Journal B  (2025 - present ) 

• Editor-in-Chief - Journal of Computational Science (January 2021 - December 2025 )

• Advisory board - Chaos : An interdisciplinary journal of nonlinear science (2021 - 2024)

• Editor - Chaos, Solitons, Fractals (2017 - 2020)

• Editorial Board - Nature scientific reports (2017 - Present)

Awards and Honors:

• INSA Women associates (2026 - ) (founding cohort)

• NetSci, USA Outstanding Service Award 2025

• Serb POWER Fellow (2022-2025)