Faculty Members

 

Complex Systems
Condensed Matter Experiment
Condensed Matter Theory
High Energy Physics
Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Ion Beam, Plasma and Nuclear Solid State
Visiting Faculty
Emeritus Faculty

 
 
 

Complex Systems

 
 
 

Gopal Hazra

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., IISc Bangalore, 2018)
Email: hazra[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2377 (O - Room No-604, Engineering Science Building-II)
Areas of Interest: Astrophysical Magnetic fields, Exoplanets, Exoplanetary Atmospheres, Solar and Planetary winds, Space weather

 

 

 

 
 
 

Krishnacharya

Associate Professor (Ph.D., Max-Planck Institute, Germany, 2007)
Email: kcharya[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7968 (O -SL-201)
Areas of Interest: Soft Matter Physics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Mahendra K. Verma

Professor (Ph.D., Maryland, 1994)
Email: mkv[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7396 (O - FB472)
Areas of Interest: Nonlinear Physics, Magnetohydrodynamics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Manas Khan

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 2011)
Email: mkhan[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6885 (FB 488)
Areas of Interest: Soft and Active Matter (Experiment, Modeling and Computation), Optical Trapping and Micromanipulation, Brownian dynamics simulation

 

 

 

 
 
 

Sagar Chakraborty

Associate Professor (Ph.D., SN Bose, 2008)
Email: sagarc[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6584 (O - FB487)
Areas of Interest: Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory, Turbulence

 

 

 

 
 
 

Sivasurender Chandran

Assistant Professor (Ph.D.: IISc, 2014)
Email: schandran[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2164 (O - PEB-103, next to Media lab)
Areas of Interest: Soft matter Physics

 

 
 
 

Supratik Banerjee

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France)
Email: sbanerjee[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2013 (O - FB388)
Areas of Interest: Turbulence in fluids, Physics of space and astrophysical plasmas

 

 

 
 
 

Taraknath Mandal

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., IISc, Bangalore)
Email: taraknath[AT]iitk.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Computational Soft Matter Physics and Biophysics

 

 

 
 

Condensed Matter Experiment

 
 
 

Anjan Kumar Gupta

Professor (Ph.D., Kentucky, 2001)
Email: anjankg[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph:7549 (O - SL217)
Areas of Interest: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Superconductivity

 

 

 

 
 
 

Chanchal Sow

Assistant Professor (Ph.D, IISc Bangalore , 2014)
Email: chanchal[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 4768 (O - Southern Lab Extension, 1st floor)
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 (Ph.D., S. N. Bose Center, 2017)
Email: cbanerjee[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: (O - 203, Old Sac building)
Areas of Interest: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Magneto-Optic Spectroscopy, Ultrafast Light Matter Interaction, XUV Spectroscopy.

 

 

 

 
 
 

Jayita Nayak

Assistant Professor (Ph.D, Devi Ahilya Viswavidyalaya, Indore, 2015)
Email: jnayak[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6557 (O - SL217)
Areas of Interest: Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy of topological insulators, high Tc superconductors, and hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of quasicrystals and Heusler alloys

 

 

 

 
 
 

K. P. Rajeev

Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 1992)
Email: kpraj[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7929 (O - SL107A)
Areas of Interest: Low Temperature Physics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Krishnacharya

Associate Professor (Ph.D., Max-Planck Institute, Germany, 2007)
Email: kcharya[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7968 (O -SL-201)
Areas of Interest: Soft Matter Physics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Manas Khan

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 2011)
Email: mkhan[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6885 (FB 488)
Areas of Interest: Soft and Active Matter (Experiment, Modeling and Computation), Optical Trapping and Micromanipulation, Brownian dynamics simulation

 

 

 

 
 
 

Rajeev Gupta

Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 2001)
Email: guptaraj[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6095(O - ACMS-203A)
Areas of Interest: Optical spectroscopy and phases

 

 

 

 
 
 

Rohit Medwal

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Delhi, 2014)
Email: rmedwal[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2309 (SL-204)
Areas of Interest: Nanomagnetism, Spin transport and high frequency spin dynamics in spin devices, Terahertz spintronics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Saikat Ghosh

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Cornell University, USA)
Email: gsaikat[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6971 (O -FB 475)
Areas of Interest: Quantum Optics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Satyajit Banerjee

Professor (Ph.D., TIFR, 2000)
Email: satyajit[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7559 (O - SL108)
Areas of Interest: Superconductivity, Magneto-optics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Sivasurender Chandran

Assistant Professor (Ph.D.: IISc, 2014)
Email: schandran[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2164 (O - PEB-103, next to Media lab)
Areas of Interest: Soft matter Physics

 

 
 
 

Soumik Mukhopadhyay

Professor (Ph.D., Jadavpur University, India)
Email: soumikm[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6276 (O - SL217G)
Areas of Interest: Strongly correlated systems, topological systems, low dimensional magnetism, and spintronics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Sudipta Dubey

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
Email: sudiptad[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2174 (O-SL217B)
Areas of Interest: Physics of atomically thin materials, Valleytronics, Twistronics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Y. N. Mohapatra

Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 1989 )
Email: ynm[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7033/7802/7538 (O - SL105B)
Areas of Interest: Semiconductor Physics, Material Science

 

 

 

 
 
 

Zakir Hossain

Professor (Ph.D., TIFR, 1997)
Email: zakir[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7464 (O - SL113)
Areas of Interest: Superconductivity, Strongly-correlated electron systems

 

 

 

 
   
 
 

Adhip Agarwala

Assistant Professor (Ph.D. IISc, 2018)
mail: adhip[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2313 (FB479)
Areas of Interest: Theoretical quantum condensed matter physics

 

 

 

 
 

Amit Agarwal

Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 2009)
Email: amitag[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6981 (O - FB386)
Areas of Interest: quantum many-body effects, low-dimensional quantum systems

 

 

 

 
 
 

Arijit Kundu

Associate Professor (Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany, 2012)
Email: kundua[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph:7065 (O - FB373)
Areas of Interest: Equilibrium and non-equilibrium quantum transport. Topological systems in condensed matter.

 

 

 

 
 
 

Avinash Singh

Professor (Ph.D., Urbana-Champaign, 1987)
Email: avinas[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7047 (O - FB376)
Areas of Interest: Strongly-correlated Systems

 

 

 

 
 
 

Koushik Pal

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., JNCASR, 2017)
Email: koushik[AT]iitk.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Materials theory and simulation, Materials informatics and machine learning, Quantum and energy materials

 

 

 

 
 
 

Manoj K. Harbola

Professor (Ph.D., CUNY, 1989)
Email: mkh[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph:7823 (O - FB476)
Areas of Interest: Atomic and Molecular Physics

 

 

 

 
 
 

S. Anantha Ramakrishna

Professor (Ph.D., RRI, 2001)
Email: sar[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7449 (O - SL217)
Areas of Interest: Photonics & Waves in Random Media

 

 

 

 
 
 

Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., IISc, Bangalore, 2017)
Email: skghosh[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2318 (O - FB-478)
Areas of Interest: Superconductivity and magnetism, Topological order, Ultracold atoms

 

 

 
 
 

Taraknath Mandal

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., IISc, Bangalore)
Email: taraknath[AT]iitk.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Computational Soft Matter Physics and Biophysics

 

 

 
 
 

Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Professor (Ph.D., IMSc, 2003)
Email: tkghosh[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7276 (O - FB352)
Areas of Interest: Utra-cold atomic gases, Nanoscopic physics

 

 

 

 
 

High Energy Physics

 
     
 
 

Arjun Bagchi

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., HRI, 2010)
Email: abagchi[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6928(O - FB374)
Areas of Interest: Theoretical High Energy Physics, String Theory

 

 

 

 
 

Apratim Kaviraj

Assistant Professor (Ph.D. IISc Bangalore, 2017)
Email: akaviraj[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2290 (O-PEB104)
Areas of Interest: Theoretical high energy physics, conformal field theories, critical phenomena

 

 

 

 
 
 

Debtosh Chowdhury

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2013)
Email: debtoshc[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2151 (Old SAC building, Block-A, Room no.- 101)
Areas of Interest: Theoretical Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astroparticle physics, Standard Model phenomenology

 

 

 

 
 

Dipankar Chakrabarti (HOD)

Associate Professor (Ph.D., SINP, 2004)
Email: dipankar[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6696 (O - FB489)
Areas of Interest: Quantum Chromodynamics, Lattice Gauge Theory and Lightcone Field Theories

 

 

 

 
 
 

Diptarka Das

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2014)
Email: didas[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2057 (O -FB-329 )
Areas of Interest: Conformal field theories, Non-equilibrium physics, String theory

 

 

 

 
 
 

Gautam Sengupta

Professor (Ph.D., IOP,Bhubaneswar, 1992)
Email: sengupta[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7139 (O - FB473)
Areas of Interest: String Theory & Quantum Gravity

 

 

 

 
 
 

Kaushik Bhattacharya

Associate Professor (Ph.D., Jadavpur, 2005)
Email: kaushikb[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7306 (O - FB387)
Areas of Interest: Cosmology, Particle Physics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Joydeep Chakrabortty

Associate Professor (Ph.D, HRI, 2011)
email: joydeep[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7083 (O - FB-372)
Areas of Interest: Effective Field Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Spectral Functions, Heat kernel

 

 

 

 
 
 

Navaneeth Poonthottathil

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) and Fermilab, 2017)
Email: navaneeth[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: (O - 105, Old Sac building)
Areas of Interest: Experimental High Energy Physics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Nilay Kundu

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., TIFR, 2014)
Email: nilayhep[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6801 (Rajeev Motwani Building, Room no.- 605)
Areas of Interest: Theoretical High Energy Physics, String Theory

 

 

 

 
 
 

Pankaj Jain

Professor (Ph.D., Syracuse, 1988)
Email: pkjain[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7663 (O - FB474)
Areas of Interest: Cosmology, Particle Physics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Sabyasachi Chakraborty

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., IACS, Kolkata, 2016)
Email: sabyac[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2349 (O - 107, Block C, Old Sac building)
Areas of Interest: Theoretical Particle Physics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Swagata Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Calcutta, 2016)
Email: swagata[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: (O - Room No 103, PEB (near Media lab))
Areas of Interest: Experimental High Energy Physics, Collider experiments.

 

 

 
 
 

Sanmay Ganguly

Assistant Professor (PhD, TIFR, Mumbai)
Email: sanmay[AT]iitk.ac.in
(O - 111, Block A, Old Sac building)
Areas of Interest: Experimental High Energy Physics, Application of machine learning in HEP and other branches of physics

 

 

 
 
 

Tapobrata Sarkar

Professor (Ph.D., IMSc, 2001)
Email: tapo[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7464 (O - FB476)
Areas of Interest: String Theory & Quantum Gravity

 

 

 

 
 

Photonics and Quantum Technologies

 
 
 

Anand Kumar Jha

Professor (PhD, University of Rochester, USA; 2009)
Email: akjha[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7014 (O - FB351)
Areas of Interest: Quantum-optics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Asima Pradhan

Professor (Ph.D., CUNY, 1991)
Email: asima[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7691/7971 (O - SL111)
Areas of Interest: Medical Applications of Lasers

 

 

 

 
 
 

Harshawardhan Wanare

Professor (Ph.D., Hyderabad, 1998)
Email: hwanare[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph:7885/6080(O-SL-217D)
Areas of Interest: Non-linear optics, imaging

 

 

 

 
 
 

R. Vijaya

Professor (Ph.D., IIT Madras)
Email: rvijaya[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph:7552(O - SL217)
Areas of Interest: Fiber optics, Nonlinear optics and Photonic band gap structures

 

 

 

 
 
 

Saikat Ghosh

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Cornell University, USA)
Email: gsaikat[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6971 (O - FB 475)
Areas of Interest: Quantum Optics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Sapam Ranjita Chanu

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India)
Email: sranjita[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2406 (O - SL217A)
Areas of Interest: Quantum computation and simulations with cold ions, cold atoms and quantum metrology with single pure state of cold atoms and ions

 

 

 

 
 
 

Saurabh Mani Tripathi

Assistant Professor (PhD, IIT Delhi, 2010)
email: smt[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6871 (O - CL103C)
Areas of Interest: Fiber and Integrated Optics.

 

 

 

 
 
 

Sudipta Dubey

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
Email: sudiptad[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2174 (O-SL217B)
Areas of Interest: Physics of atomically thin materials, Valleytronics, Twistronics

 

 

 

 
 
 

Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., TIFR, 2017)
Email: jayasurya[AT]iitk.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Nanophotonics, nanoscale light emitters and scatterers, biogenic photonic structures, optical imaging

 

 

 

 
 

Ion Beam, Plasma and Nuclear Solid State

 
 
 

Aditya H. Kelkar

Associate Professor (Ph.D. TIFR, 2009)
mail: akelkar[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7985/7986 (O - NL-105)
Areas of Interest: Experimental atomic collision physics, heavy ions and electron collisions, accelerator physics

 

 

 

 
 

Sudeep Bhattacharjee

Professor (Ph.D., RIKEN, 1999)
Email: sudeepb[AT]iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7602 (O - 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