Tabulated database for physicists working in India

A list of physicists in India, classified by institutions and research interests

This is a database of physicists working in faculty positions at various Indian institutes. This service is still in beta, and data for institutes are still being added. If you want to look for the people working in a specific field like high energy physics, take a look at the “Filter by Category” section and click on the “High Energy Physics” item.

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  Biophysics

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Anandamohan Ghosh	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Non-linear dynamics, mathematical and theoretical biology	anandamohan@iiserkol.ac.in
Nirmalya Ghosh	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Optical Physics, Plasmonics and nano optics, Polarization optics, Weak measurements, Biophotonics	nghosh@iiserkol.ac.in
Rumi De	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Theoretical Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistical Physics, Soft Condensed Matter,	rumi.de@iiserkol.ac.in
Supratim Sengupta	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Computational Biology, Biophysics and Complex Systems	supratim.sen@iiserkol.ac.in
Amar Nath Gupta	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Biophysics, Soft Matter Physics, Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy, Microrheology, Protein folding	ang@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Dipak Kumar Goswami	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Organic Electronic Devices, Biomedical devices, Flexible electronics, Organic thin film growth, Flexible healthcare devices	dipak@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

  Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Arindam Kundagrami	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Polymer Physics, Polyelectrolyte Physics	arindam@iiserkol.ac.in
Bhavtosh Bansal	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Condensed Matter Physics (Experimental)	bhavtosh@iiserkol.ac.in
Bheemalingam Chittari	IISER Kolkata	Assistant Professor	Quantum Theory of Functional Materials	bheemalingam@iiserkol.ac.in
Bipul Pal	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Ultrafast optical spectroscopy, Carrier dynamics in semiconductors, Nonlinear optical phenomena	bipul@iiserkol.ac.in
Chiranjib Mitra	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Magnetism, Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and Magnetooptics	chiranjib@iiserkol.ac.in
Goutam Dev Mukherjee	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics	goutamdev@iiserkol.ac.in
Prasanta K. Panigrahi	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Bose-Einstein Condensates, Cold Fermions, Nonlinear Dynamics, Field Theory and Wavelet Transform	pprasanta@iiserkol.ac.in
Rumi De	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Theoretical Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistical Physics, Soft Condensed Matter,	rumi.de@iiserkol.ac.in
Satyabrata Raj	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Condensed Matter (Experiment)	raj@iiserkol.ac.in
Siddhartha Lal	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	emergent phenomena in low-dimensional quantum systems, strongly correlated electron systems, quantum magnetism, quantum transport	slal@iiserkol.ac.in
Sourin Das	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Quantum Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information and Quantum Computation	sourin@iiserkol.ac.in
Subhasis Sinha	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Condensed Matter Theory	subhasis@iiserkol.ac.in
Achintya Dhar	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Organic Electronics, Solar Photovoltaics, Semicondutor Thin Films, Thin Film Heterostructure	adhar@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Amreesh Chandra	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Hiearchical Nanostructures for Devices, Supercapacitors, Gas Sensors and catalysis, 3D printing of energy devices, Multifunctional ceramics	achandra@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Anushree Roy	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Raman Scattering	anushree@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Debamalya Banerjee	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Energy materials, Electron transport	debamalya@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Dipak Kumar Goswami	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Organic Electronic Devices, Biomedical devices, Flexible electronics, Organic thin film growth, Flexible healthcare devices	dipak@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sajal Dhara	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Nanoscale optoelectronics, Electron transport, Light-matter interaction	sajaldhara@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Swift heavy ion-matter interaction, Local Magnetism, Quantum phase transitions & criticality, Density Functional Theory for Solids	sanjeev@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sitikantha Dhurjati Das	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Low temperature physics, Unconventional Superconductors, Quantum spin systems	sitikantha.das@iitkgp.ac.in
Sonjoy Majumder	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Physics of ultra cold atom, Light matter interaction: Atomic clock, Quantum Information Theory, Relativistic many-electron theory, Astrophysics: Atomic data	sonjoym@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sudhansu Sekhar Mandal	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Disordered Superconductors, Magnetic Vortices and Skyrmions, Physics of Topological Materials	sudhansu@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Tapan Kumar Nath	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Functional materials, GMR & Magneto-electric & Magneto-caloric Materials, Spintronic nanomaterials and devices, Applied Superconductivity, Electronic & magnetic materials	tnath@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

  Electronics and Semiconductors

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Achintya Dhar	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Organic Electronics, Solar Photovoltaics, Semicondutor Thin Films, Thin Film Heterostructure	adhar@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Debraj Choudhury	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Electronic & magnetic materials	debraj@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Dipak Kumar Goswami	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Organic Electronic Devices, Biomedical devices, Flexible electronics, Organic thin film growth, Flexible healthcare devices	dipak@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sajal Dhara	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Nanoscale optoelectronics, Electron transport, Light-matter interaction	sajaldhara@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Tapan Kumar Nath	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Functional materials, GMR & Magneto-electric & Magneto-caloric Materials, Spintronic nanomaterials and devices, Applied Superconductivity, Electronic & magnetic materials	tnath@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

  Astrophysics, Astronomy, Cosmology and Gravity

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Dibyendu Nandi	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Astrophysical Magnetohydrodynamics, Sun-Earth-System Science, Space Science	dnandi@iiserkol.ac.in
Golam Mortuza Hossain	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Gravitation and Cosmology (Classical and Quantum)	ghossain@iiserkol.ac.in
Koushik Dutta	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Cosmology and Its Connections to Particle Physics	koushik@iiserkol.ac.in
Narayan Banerjee	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Gravitation &amp, Cosmology	narayan@iiserkol.ac.in
Rajesh Kumble Nayak	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Astrophysics, Physics	rajesh@iiserkol.ac.in
Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Quantum field theory, Gravity, String Theory, Relativistic hydrodynamics, Quantum entanglement in QFTs	jyoti@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Kamal Lochan Panigrahi	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	High Energy Physics, String Theory, AdS/CFT duality, Integrable Models	panigrahi@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sandipan Sengupta	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Physics of extra dimensions, General Relativity and Modified Gravity, The problem of Quantization of gravity, Cosmology	sandipan@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sayan Kar	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	General Relativity and Modified Gravity, Theoretical High Energy Physics, Physics education	sayan@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Somnath Bharadwaj	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Astrophysics, Cosmology	somnath@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sonjoy Majumder	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Physics of ultra cold atom, Light matter interaction: Atomic clock, Quantum Information Theory, Relativistic many-electron theory, Astrophysics: Atomic data	sonjoym@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

  High Energy Physics, Quantum Field Theories and String Theory

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Ritesh K. Singh	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	High Energy Physics	ritesh.singh@iiserkol.ac.in
Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Quantum field theory, Gravity, String Theory, Relativistic hydrodynamics, Quantum entanglement in QFTs	jyoti@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Kamal Lochan Panigrahi	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	High Energy Physics, String Theory, AdS/CFT duality, Integrable Models	panigrahi@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sayan Kar	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	General Relativity and Modified Gravity, Theoretical High Energy Physics, Physics education	sayan@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Tirtha Sankar Ray	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Particle Physics, Beyond Standard Model Physics, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Astroparticle Physics	tsray@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

  Nonlinear Dynamics and Mathematical and Computational Physics

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Anandamohan Ghosh	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Non-linear dynamics, mathematical and theoretical biology	anandamohan@iiserkol.ac.in
Bipul Pal	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Ultrafast optical spectroscopy, Carrier dynamics in semiconductors, Nonlinear optical phenomena	bipul@iiserkol.ac.in
Prasanta K. Panigrahi	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Bose-Einstein Condensates, Cold Fermions, Nonlinear Dynamics, Field Theory and Wavelet Transform	pprasanta@iiserkol.ac.in
Rumi De	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Theoretical Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistical Physics, Soft Condensed Matter,	rumi.de@iiserkol.ac.in
Soumitro Banerjee	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Nonlinear dynamics	soumitro@iiserkol.ac.in
Kannabiran Seshasayanan	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistical Physics, Turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamics, Waves in Geophysics and Oceanography	kannabiran.s@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Poornachandra Sekhar Burada	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Soft Matter Physics, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Low-Reynolds number Hydrodynamics, Computational Physics	psburada@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Pragya Shukla	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Statistical Studies of Complex Systems, System Dependent Random matrix theory, Mathematical Physics, Statistical Physics	shukla@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Samudra Roy	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Nonlinear Photonics, Nonlinear Cavity Dynamics, CavitySoliton, Airy pulse dynamics, Graphene Optics, Waveguide Array	samudra.roy@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sugata Pratik Khastgir	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Mathematical Physics, Integrable Models	pratik@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Vishwanath Shukla	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Statistical Physics, High performance computing, Quantum/classical turbulence	vishwanath.shukla@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

  Nuclear Physics

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Ajay Kumar Singh	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Nuclear Structure, Gamma-ray spectroscopy, Nuclear detectors	singh@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

  Optics and Photonics

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Ayan Banerjee	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Optics and photonics, spectroscopy	ayan@iiserkol.ac.in
Bipul Pal	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Ultrafast optical spectroscopy, Carrier dynamics in semiconductors, Nonlinear optical phenomena	bipul@iiserkol.ac.in
Dhananjay Nandi	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Low energy electron-molecule collisions, Photoelectron-Photoion Imaging Spectroscopy, Surface Science	dhananjay@iiserkol.ac.in
Kamaraju Natarajan	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Ultrafast Spectroscopy, THz Spectroscopy, THz Metamaterials, Nonlinear Optics/THz	nkamaraju@iiserkol.ac.in
Nirmalya Ghosh	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Optical Physics, Plasmonics and nano optics, Polarization optics, Weak measurements, Biophotonics	nghosh@iiserkol.ac.in
Anushree Roy	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Raman Scattering	anushree@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Maruthi Manoj Brundavanam	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Singular Optics, Correlation Optics	bmmanoj@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Partha Roy Chaudhuri	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Fiber & Integrated Optics, Photonics, Experimental Bio-Photonics, Imaging, Plasmonic Directional Coupler Devices, Optical Fiber Sensors and Devices	roycp@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Prasanta Kumar Datta	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Laser Physics, Nonlinear Optics, Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy	pkdatta@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sajal Dhara	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Nanoscale optoelectronics, Electron transport, Light-matter interaction	sajaldhara@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Samudra Roy	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Nonlinear Photonics, Nonlinear Cavity Dynamics, CavitySoliton, Airy pulse dynamics, Graphene Optics, Waveguide Array	samudra.roy@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Shivakiran B N Bhaktha	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Glass Photonics, Random Lasers, Optofluidics, Photonic Crystals, Microresonators	kiranbhaktha@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sonjoy Majumder	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Physics of ultra cold atom, Light matter interaction: Atomic clock, Quantum Information Theory, Relativistic many-electron theory, Astrophysics: Atomic data	sonjoym@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

  Others

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Amit Ghosal	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Physics	ghosal@iiserkol.ac.in
Partha Mitra	IISER Kolkata	Assistant Professor	Magnetism in mesoscopic systems and spintronics application	pmitra@iiserkol.ac.in
Amal Kumar Das	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Magnetism and Spintronics	amal@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Arghya Taraphder	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Physical and Earth Sciences	arghya@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Saikat Das	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Coming soon...	saikat@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Samit Kumar Ray	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Coming soon...	physkr@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

  Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information and Computation

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Ananda Dasgupta	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Quantum Phenomena	adg@iiserkol.ac.in
Chiranjib Mitra	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Magnetism, Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and Magnetooptics	chiranjib@iiserkol.ac.in
Prasanta K. Panigrahi	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Bose-Einstein Condensates, Cold Fermions, Nonlinear Dynamics, Field Theory and Wavelet Transform	pprasanta@iiserkol.ac.in
Rangeet Bhattacharyya	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Non-equilibrium Quantum Dynamics, Open Quantum Systems, NMR	rangeet@iiserkol.ac.in
Siddhartha Lal	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	emergent phenomena in low-dimensional quantum systems, strongly correlated electron systems, quantum magnetism, quantum transport	slal@iiserkol.ac.in
Sourin Das	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Quantum Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information and Quantum Computation	sourin@iiserkol.ac.in
Sonjoy Majumder	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Physics of ultra cold atom, Light matter interaction: Atomic clock, Quantum Information Theory, Relativistic many-electron theory, Astrophysics: Atomic data	sonjoym@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

  Statistical Physics and Hydrodynamics

Name	Institute	Designation	Research Area	Email Id
Pradeep Kumar Mohanty	IISER Kolkata	Professor	Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics	pkmohanty@iiserkol.ac.in
Rumi De	IISER Kolkata	Associate Professor	Theoretical Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistical Physics, Soft Condensed Matter,	rumi.de@iiserkol.ac.in
Kannabiran Seshasayanan	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistical Physics, Turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamics, Waves in Geophysics and Oceanography	kannabiran.s@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Krishna Kumar	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Hydrodynamic Instabilities, Interfacial Waves, Magnetoconvection	kumar@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Poornachandra Sekhar Burada	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Soft Matter Physics, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Low-Reynolds number Hydrodynamics, Computational Physics	psburada@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Pragya Shukla	IIT Kharagpur	Professor	Statistical Studies of Complex Systems, System Dependent Random matrix theory, Mathematical Physics, Statistical Physics	shukla@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava	IIT Kharagpur	Associate Professor	Swift heavy ion-matter interaction, Local Magnetism, Quantum phase transitions & criticality, Density Functional Theory for Solids	sanjeev@phy.iitkgp.ac.in
Vishwanath Shukla	IIT Kharagpur	Assistant Professor Grade-I	Statistical Physics, High performance computing, Quantum/classical turbulence	vishwanath.shukla@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

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