Prof. Abhay Lalit Deshpande
(MSC2/PHY/1987)
Dr. Deshpande is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University (State University of NY) and serves as Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for Nuclear and Particle Physics at US DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). For his research, Prof. Deshpande is involved in experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) and Paul Sherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland.
Profile
Prof. Abhay Lalit Deshpande received his master's degree in physics from IIT Kanpur in 1987 and subsequently went on to earn his doctorate in Experimental High Energy Physics from Yale University in 1994. Honoring his stellar contributions to the fields of High Energy Particle and Nuclear Physics, IIT Kanpur confers upon Prof. Abhay Lalit Deshpande the Distinguished Alumnus Award of 202l.
In the past, Prof. Abhay has performed experiments at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and at DESY in Hamburg, Germany.He was one of the original promoters of the Electron Ion Collider. Since 2017, he has served as the Founding Director at Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science,and Scientific Director for the Electron Ion Collider being built at Brookhaven National Laboratory. As Electron Ion Collider Director of Science, he helps develop and enhance the scientific scope of the US Electron Ion Collider. At the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science, he leads the activities that promote the science and international collaborations for the EIC through collaborative research and mentoring exceptional postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. The Center runs an annual series of international workshops on the science of EIC, a robust postdoctoral fellowship program, a seminar series, a visitors' program and an annual summer school associated with the science of EIC. His research
interests are in the fields of particle and nuclear physics and in particular: Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), precision Electro-Weak & Beyond the Standard Model Physics. He is also passionate about communicating science and promoting the importance of such abilities amongst early career scientists.
Prof. Deshpande is the recipient of many prestigious awards and honors, such as, Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2021),induction into the NY Distinguished Academy (2021), SUNY Distinguished Professorship (2021), the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence Research & Innovation in 2018; RIKEN (Japan) President's Prize for the Study of Nucleon Spin in 2015; Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014; National Academy of Science's Education Fellow in Life Sciences in 2013.
Achievements and Honors
- Distinguished Alumnus Award, IITK, 2021.
- SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence Research & Innovation, 2018.
- RIKEN (Japan) President's Special Prize, 2015.
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2014.
- Fellow, National Academy of Sciences in Life Sciences, 2013.