Dr. Somnath Jha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at IIT Kanpur. His areas of interest in Mathematics are Number Theory & Arithmetic Geometry. He is a recipient of the INSA Medal for Young Scientist, 2018 , INSPIRE Faculty award , DST, 2014 and Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 2017.. He received his PhD from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai in 2012. He was also a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Osaka University from 2012 to 2014 .
