Dr. Chandrakala Meena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India. Her research integrates nonlinear dynamics, network science, and machine learning to uncover and predict emergent behaviors in complex systems. She develops theoretical and computational methods for classifying dynamical states, predicting climate events, identifying chaos-control mechanisms, analyzing stability in large-scale systems, and exploring spatiotemporal pattern formation in microbial communities. Her work also examines scientific mobility patterns in the Indian research ecosystem, as well as the stability of quantum processes. She has made notable contributions in predicting stability of large complex systems and to understanding synchronization through the Master Stability Function. Recently, her focus has expanded to data-driven public-health surveillance, particularly wastewater-based epidemiology.