Curriculum Vitae

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Citizenship: Indian

Current Appointments: Senior Professor, The Dept. of Theoretical Physics, TIFR (From Jan 1, 2017.) Staff Associate, ICTP, (From May 1, 2012)

Past Appointments: IBM Einstein Fellow and Visting Faculty, IAS, Princeton, (July 2013 - May 2014) Professor, The Departpment of Theoretical Physics, TIFR, (Aug 1, 2009 - Dec 31, 2016) Associate Professor, The Dept of Theoretical Physics, TIFR, (Aug 1 2006- July 31 2009). Asst. Professor, The Department of Physics, (Sept 1, 2001 -July 31 2006). Reader, Dept of Theoretical Physics, TIFR (Aug 17 2004- July 31, 2006) Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows. (June 2000–June 2003) Education: , Princeton, NJ September 1995 – Dec. 1999 Degree: Ph.D. Physics (Nov 2000) Thesis: and Holography (July 2000) Advisor: Prof. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India August 1990 – May 1995 Degree: M.Sc. (Physics) (May 1995)

Fellowships and Awards: Elected Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences, Jan 2018. Awarded TWAS Award, The World Academy of Science, 2016 Awarded Distinguished Alumni Award, IIT Kanpur, 2015 Awarded IIM Lucknow Young Leader Award (Science and Technology) 2014 Awarded in the Physical Sciences, 2013 Awarded New Horizons in Physics Prize, Dec 2013 Awarded Innaugural Nishina Asia Award, Aug 2013. Awarded Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize, Sept 2011 Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Jan 2011. Awarded ICTP Prize 2010, Sept 2010. Elected Young Affiliate of TWAS, Sept 2008 Awarded Swarnajayanti Fellowship, Jan 2007 Awarded Five Year NSF USA Presidential Career Fellowship, Feb. 2003. Elected Alfred. P. Sloan Research Fellow, May 2002. Elected Junior, Harvard Society of Fellows, Dec 1999. Awarded President’s Gold Medal, IITK, July 1995. Doctoral Students 1. I. Haldar, Supervised Aug 2017 onwards. Expected Phd (TIFR) 2020 2. L. Jangial, Supervised July 2016 onwards. Expected Phd (TIFR) 2019. 3. Y. Dandekar, Supervised July 2015 onwards. Phd (TIFR) 2018 Post Doctoral Appointment, ICTS, Bengaluru. 4. S. Mazumdar, Supervised July 2014 onwards. Phd 2017 Post doctoral appointment, Jerusalem, 2017 5. M. Mandlik, Phd (TIFR) 2016 Post doctoral appointment, Technion U, Haifa, Israel, 2016- 6. T. Sharma, Supervised Aug 2010 onwards. Phd (TIFR) 2014 Post doctoral appointment, Weizmann Institute, Israel Post doctoral appointment, Wits, Johannaesburg, South Africa 7. V. Umesh, Phd (TIFR) 2016 Post doctoral appointment, Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa 8. J. Bhattacharyya, supervised Jan 2007 onwards. Phd (TIFR) 2011 Post Doctoral Appointment: IPMU, Japan, 2011-2014 Post Doctoral Appointment: Durham, UK, 2014- 2017 Assistant Professor, IIT Khadagpur, 2017- present 9. R. Loganayagam, supervised Jan 2008 onwards. Phd (TIFR) May 2010. Post Doctoral Appointment, Harvard Junior Fellow, Aug 2010-July 2013 Post Doctoral Appointment, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Aug 2013-2016 Appointed Reader, ICTS, TIFR, Bangalore 2015 10. S. Bhattacharyya, supervised Jan 2007 onwards. Phd (TIFR) May 2010. Post Doctoral Appointment: HRI, Allahabad, Aug 2010 onwards. Faculty Appointment, RKMU, Kolkata, March 2013. Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur, Jan 2014- March 2017 Reader, NISER Bhubhaneshwar, Mar 2017- present 11. Subhaniel Lahiri, supervised Aug 2005 onwards. Phd (Harvard) April 2009. Post Doctoral position in Biophysics, Harvard, 2009-2012 Post Doctoral positi