Faculty

Current Faculty

Adhip Agarwala

Assistant Professor

adhip  2313  PEB101
Areas of Interest
Theoretical quantum condensed matter physics

Aditya H. Kelkar

Associate Professor

akelkar  7985/7537 NL-105

Areas of Interest
Experimental atomic collision physics, heavy ions and electron collisions, accelerator physics

Anjan Kumar Gupta

Professor

anjankg 7549/6585 SL217

Areas of Interest
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Superconductivity

Amit Agarwal

Professor

amitag  6981/7394 FB385

Areas of Interest
quantum many-body effects, low-dimensional quantum systems

Anand Kumar Jha

Professor

akjha  7014/6759 FB351

Areas of Interest
Quantum-optics

Apratim Kaviraj

Assistant Professor

akaviraj  2520 PEB10

Areas of Interest
Theoretical high energy physics, conformal field theories, critical phenomena

Arjun Bagchi

Associate Professor

abagchi  6928 FB374

Areas of Interest
Theoretical High Energy Physics, String Theory

Arijit Kundu

Associate Professor

kundua 7065 FB373

Areas of Interest
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium quantum transport. Topological systems in condensed matter.

Chanchal Sow

Assistant Professor

chanchal  4768/4773 LTE

Areas of Interest
Magnetism in Complex Oxides, Interplay between Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity, Single Crystal and Thin Film Growth of Novel Quantum Materials, Strongly Correlated Electron Systems under Non Equilibrium Steady State (SCESness).

Chandrima Banerjee

Assistant Professor

cbanerjee 2405 203, Old Sac

Areas of Interest 
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Magneto-Optic Spectroscopy, Ultrafast Light Matter Interaction, XUV Spectroscopy.

Debtosh Chowdhury

Assistant Professor

debtoshc  2151 C-101 Old SAC
Areas of Interest
Theoretical Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astroparticle physics, Standard Model phenomenology

Dipankar Chakrabarti (HOD)

Professor

dipankar  6696 FB489

Areas of Interest
Quantum Chromodynamics, Lattice Gauge Theory and Lightcone Field Theories

Diptarka Das

Associate Professor

didas  2057 206 Old Sac

Areas of Interest
Conformal field theories, Non-equilibrium physics, String theory

Gautam Sengupta

Professor

sengupta  7139 FB473

Areas of Interest
String Theory & Quantum Gravity

Gopal Hazra

Assistant Professor

hazra  2377 ESB 604

Areas of Interest
Astrophysical Magnetic fields, Exoplanets, Exoplanetary Atmospheres, Solar and Planetary winds, Space weather

Harshawardhan Wanare

Professor

hwanare 7885 FB 474

Areas of Interest
Non-linear optics, imaging

Jayita Nayak

Assistant Professor

jnayak  6557 SL 204

Areas of Interest
Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy of topological insulators, high Tc superconductors, and hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of quasicrystals and Heusler alloys

Joydeep Chakrabortty

Professor

joydeep  7083 FB 372

Areas of Interest
Effective Field Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Spectral Functions, Heat kernel

K. P. Rajeev

Professor

kpraj  7929/7965 SB107A

Areas of Interest
Low Temperature Physics

Kaushik Bhattacharya

Professor

kaushikb  7306 FB387

Areas of Interest
Cosmology, Particle Physics

Koushik Pal

Assistant Professor

koushik 2315 106, Old Sac

Areas of Interest
Materials theory and simulation, Materials informatics and machine learning, Quantum and energy materials

Krishnacharya

Professor

kcharya  7968/6655 SL201

Areas of Interest
Soft Matter Physics

Mahendra K. Verma

Professor

mkv  7396/6232 FB472

Areas of Interest
Nonlinear Physics, Magnetohydrodynamics

Manas Khan

Assistant Professor

mkhan  6885/6540 FB 488

Areas of Interest
Statistical Physics of Soft and Active Matter (Experiment, Modeling and Computation), Optical Trapping and Micromanipulation, Brownian dynamics simulation

Manoj K. Harbola

Professor

mkh 7823 FB476

Areas of Interest
Atomic and Molecular Physics

Navaneeth Poonthottathil

Assistant Professor

navaneeth  2350 105, Old Sac
Areas of Interest
Experimental High Energy Physics

Nilay Kundu

Assistant Professor

nilayhep  6801 MB 605

Areas of Interest
Theoretical High Energy Physics, String Theory

R. Vijaya

Professor

rvijaya 7552/7712 SL217

Areas of Interest
Fiber optics, Nonlinear optics and Photonic band gap structures

Rajeev Gupta

Professor

guptaraj  6095/6090 ACMS-203F

Areas of Interest
Optical spectroscopy and phases

Rohit Medwal

Assistant Professor

rmedwal  2309 SL204

Areas of Interest
Nanomagnetism, Spin transport and high frequency spin dynamics in spin devices, Terahertz spintronics

S. Anantha Ramakrishna

Professor

sar  7449/6601 SL217

Areas of Interest
Photonics & Waves in Random Media

Sabyasachi Chakraborty

Assistant Professor

sabyac  2349 C107, Old Sac
Areas of Interest
Theoretical Particle Physics

Sagar Chakraborty

Assistant Professor

sagarc  6584 FB487

Areas of Interest
Nonlinear Dynamics, Evolutionary Game Theory

Saikat Ghosh

Associate Professor

gsaikat  6971/6828 FB475

Areas of Interest

Sanmay Ganguly

Assistant Professor

sanmay  2495 111, Old Sac
Areas of Interest
Experimental High Energy Physics, Application of machine learning in HEP and other branches of physics

Sapam Ranjita Chanu

Assistant Professor

sranjita  2406 SL217

Areas of Interest
Quantum computation and simulations with cold ions, cold atoms and quantum metrology with single pure state of cold atoms and ions

Satyajit Banerjee

Professor

satyajit  7559 SL108

Areas of Interest
Superconductivity, Magneto-optics

Sivasurender Chandran

Assistant Professor

schandran  2164 PEB103

Areas of Interest
Soft matter Physics

Soumik Mukhopadhyay

Professor

soumikm  6276/6784 SL217

Areas of Interest
Strongly correlated systems, topological systems, low dimensional magnetism, and spintronics

Dr. Subhomoy Haldar

Assistant Professor

shaldar  SL- 217

Areas of Interest
Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Devices, Single Photon Detection, Magneto-Optical Transport

Sudeep Bhattacharjee

Professor

sudeepb  7602/6113 CNF

Areas of Interest
Plasma Physics, Focused ion beams from intense plasmas, Interaction of multi-element ion beams with matter, Physics of nano-scale systems

Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

Assistant Professor

skghosh  2318 FB386

Areas of Interest
Superconductivity and magnetism, Topological order, Ultracold atoms

Sudipta Dubey

Assistant Professor

sudiptad  2174 SL217
Areas of Interest
Physics of atomically thin materials, Valleytronics, Twistronics

Supratik Banerjee

Associate Professor

sbanerjee  2013 FB388

Areas of Interest
Turbulence in fluids, Physics of space and astrophysical plasmas

Swagata Mukherjee

Assistant Professor

swagata 2416 PEB102

Areas of Interest
Experimental High Energy Physics, Collider experiments.

Taraknath Mandal

Assistant Professor

taraknath 2235 C101, Old Sac

Areas of Interest
Computational Soft Matter Physics and Biophysics

Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Professor

tkghosh  7276 FB352

Areas of Interest
Utra-cold atomic gases, Nanoscopic physics

Tapobrata Sarkar

Professor

tapo  6103 FB375
Areas of Interest
String Theory & Quantum Gravity

Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada

Assistant Professor

jayasurya 2253/6240 FB479

Areas of Interest
Nanophotonics, nanoscale light emitters and scatterers, biogenic photonic structures, optical imaging

Zakir Hossain

Professor

zakir  7464/7955 SL306

Areas of Interest
Superconductivity, Strongly-correlated electron systems

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