| Faculty Members |
Name |
Designation |
Research |
| Bijay Kumar Agarwalla |
Assistant Professor |
Charge and energy transport, Fluctuation relations, Quantum thermodynamics, Engineered light-matter quantum systems, Multidimensional spectroscopy |
| Sudarshan Ananth |
Professor |
Theoretical Particle Physics |
| Ashish Arora |
Assistant Professor |
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, 2D materials, layered semiconductors, magneto-optics, high magnetic fields, quantum materials/devices, nanoscale magnetism, semiconductor nanostructures, low-dimensional physics, strong interest in public outreach |
| Ramana Athreya |
Associate Professor |
Active galaxies, galaxy cluster radio sources, high redshift Universe, imaging techniques; Biodiversity research & conservation |
| Ashna Bajpai |
Associate Professor |
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Nanomagnets & Spintronics, Carbon nanotubes, 2D-Material |
| Bhas Bapat |
Professor and Dean (Academics) |
Atomic collisions, molecular fragmentation, photochemistry of of heterogeneous phases, Auger electron spectroscopy. |
| Arijit Bhattacharyay |
Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academics, Graduate Studies) |
Complex and dynamical systems, biophysics, pattern formation |
| Apratim Chatterji |
Associate Professor |
Statistical physics, soft condensed matter, phase transitions, microfluidics |
| Vijayakumar Chikkadi |
Assistant Professor |
Soft condensed matter, Glasses, Active matter, Colloids |
| Shouvik Datta |
Associate Professor |
Semiconductor physics, optical spectroscopy, electronic defects, nanostuctures, optoelectronics |
| Aparna Deshpande |
Assistant Professor |
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM), spectroscopy, and single atom and molecule
manipulation with STM |
| Sourabh Dube |
Associate Professor and Associate Dean (International Relations and Outreach) |
Experimental High Energy Physics |
| Pavan Kumar G V |
Associate Professor |
Nanophotonics, Soft-matter physics and Light Scattering |
| Diptimoy Ghosh |
Assistant Professor |
Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology |
| Prasenjit Ghosh |
Associate Professor |
Atomistic modeling of Materials |
| Sreejith GJ |
Associate Professor |
Theoretical condensed matter physics - strongly correlated systems, quantum Hall effects, frustrated systems |
| Sachin Jain |
Assistant Professor |
String Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Gravity, Fluid Dynamics, Conformal Bootstarp, Gauge/Gravity Duality. |
| Mukul Kabir |
Associate Professor |
Electronic structure theory, 2D Materials, Functional defects, Magnetism, Superconductivity, and Catalyst design |
| T. S. Mahesh |
Professor and Deputy Chair, Physics |
NMR spectroscopy, quantum information, optimal control and artificial intelligence |
| Sunil Mukhi |
Professor |
String Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Particle Physics |
| Sunil Nair |
Associate Professor |
Strongly correlated electron systems |
| Rejish Nath |
Associate Professor |
Quantum Optics, Atom Optics, Condensed Matter Physics |
| Shivprasad Patil |
Associate Professor |
Nanotechnology, atomic force microscopy and single molecular interactions |
| Atikur Rahman |
Associate Professor |
Quantum transport in nanoelectronic devices, applications of quasi-1D and 2D materials and their heterostructures for energy harvesting and sensing, self-assembly based nanopatterning, nanofabrication. |
| Umakant D. Rapol |
Associate Professor |
Atomic physics and precision spectroscopy,
quantum optics and quantum information processing, biosensors |
| M. S. Santhanam |
Professor |
Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and quantum chaos, statistical physics, complexity |
| Seema Sharma |
Associate Professor |
Experimental High Energy Physics |
| Surjeet Singh |
Associate Professor |
Quantum materials |
| Tarun Souradeep |
Professor and Chair, Physics |
Cosmology, Gravitational waves Physics and Astronomy (LIGO-India) |
| Prasad Subramanian |
Professor (Physics) |
Plasma astrophysics, solar physics and black hole accretion |
| Arun M. Thalapillil |
Associate Professor |
Theoretical High Energy Physics |
| Suneeta Vardarajan |
Associate Professor |
Gravitation, mathematical physics |
| Visiting Faculty |
| Rajeev Bhalerao |
Emeritus Professor |
High-Energy Nuclear Physics, Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, Quark-Gluon Plasma |
| Deepak Dhar |
Emeritus Professor |
Critical phenomena on fractals, branched polymers, disordered magnets, self-organized criticality, proportionate growth in biology, protein-folding, models of super-cooled liquids and glasses. |
| Satishchandra Ogale |
Emeritus Professor |
Solar Energy, Energy Storage, Graphene and Functional Carbon, Oxide Electronics and Spintronics, Pattern Formation |
| Independent Scientist |
| Antina Ghosh |
WOS-A DST Scientist |
Soft condensed matter, glasses, jamming, phase transition, deformation of amorphous solids, Active colloidal system. |
| Luminita Harnagea |
WOS-A DST Scientist |
Synthesis and single crystal growth of novel materials showing interesting electronic, magnetic and topological phases and their main physical characterization |
| Sheelan Sengupta Chowdhury |
WOS-A DST Scientist |
Soft condensed matter, electronic properties of mesoscopic or quantum systems |
| Seema Verma |
WOS-A DST Scientist |
Nanotechnological design strategies of Inorganic materials for clean energy applications; Size controlled synthesis & characterization of multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles |
