IIT Kanpur Physics Faculty

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The Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kanpur is engaged in research and teaching at the frontier areas of experimental and theoretical sciences.

These include biological physics, condensed matter physics, high energy and nuclear physics, cosmology, astro-physics, string theory, photonics, quantum optics, information theory, quantum computation, nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics.

Faculty Members-

Distinguished Honorary Professor-

Ajay K. Sood, F.R.S.

Distinguished Honorary Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 1982)
Email: asood@physics.iisc.ernet.in
Ph: XXXX (O - FB 377)
Areas of Interest: Colloids, Surfactant based systems like lyotropic liquid crystals, micelles, membranes, vesicles, Gels; DNA.

Dynamic light scattering, Rheology, Electric Field effects, Optical microscopy, SAXS and SANS, Coherent x-ray scattering, X-ray fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.

Density functional theory, computer simulations: Monte- Carlo, Brownian dynamics and Molecular dynamics.

Condensed Matter Experiment

Satyajit Banerjee

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

R. C. Budhani

Professor (Ph.D., IIT Delhi, 1983)
Email: rcb@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7185/7955 (O - SL113)
Areas of Interest: Superconductivity and magnetism in low dimensional systems

Saikat Ghosh

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

Anjan Kumar Gupta

Associate Professor (Ph.D., Kentucky, 2001)
Email: anjankg@iitk.ac.in
Ph:7549 (O - SL115)
Areas of Interest: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Superconductivity

Rajeev Gupta

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

Zakir Hossain

Professor (Ph.D., TIFR, 1997)
Email: zakir@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7464 (O - SL306)
Areas of Interest: Superconductivity, Strongly-correlated electron systems

Krishnacharya

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

Y. N. Mohapatra

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

Soumik Mukhopadhyay

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Jadavpur University, India)
Email: soumikm@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6276 (O - SL217G)
Areas of Interest: Spintronics, Nanomagnetism, Physics of complex oxide materials

Shibabrata Nandi

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2009)
Email: snandi@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7947 (O - SL204)
Areas of Interest: Strongly-Correlated Electron Systems, Superconductivity, Magnetism, X-ray and Neutron scattering techniques

K. P. Rajeev

Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 1992)
Email: kpraj@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7929 (O - SL103)
Areas of Interest: Low Temperature Physics

Condensed Matter Theory

Amit Agarwal

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

Sagar Chakraborty

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., SN Bose, 2008)
Email: sagarc@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6584 (O - FB487)
Areas of Interest: Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Debashish Chowdhury (HOD)

Professor (Ph.D., IIT Kanpur, 1984)
Email: debch@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7039 (O - FB385)
Areas of Interest: Statistical and Biological Physics

Amit Dutta

Professor (Ph.D., SINP, 2000)
Email: dutta@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7471 (O - FB484)
Areas of Interest: Quantum phase transitions

Tarun Kanti Ghosh

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

Manoj K. Harbola

Professor (Ph.D., CUNY, 1989)
Email: mkh@iitk.ac.in
Ph:7823 (O - FB488)
Areas of Interest: Atomic and Molecular Physics

Rajendra Prasad

Professor (Ph.D., Roorkee, 1976)
Email: rprasad@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7065/7092 (O - FB-373)
Areas of Interest: Atomic clusters and nanostructures

S. Anantha Ramakrishna

Professor (Ph.D., RRI, 2001)
Email: sar@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7449 (O - FB476)
Areas of Interest: Photonics & Waves in Random Media

Avinash Singh

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

V. Subrahmanyam

Associate Professor (Ph.D., TIFR, 1991)
Email: vmani@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7912 (O - FB475)
Areas of Interest: Strongly-correlated Systems, Quantum Computation

Mahendra K. Verma

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

High Energy Physics

Arjun Bagchi

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., HRI, 2010)
Email: a.bagchi@gmail.com
Ph: 6928(O - FB374)
Areas of Interest: Theoretical High Energy Physics, String Theory

Kaushik Bhattacharya

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

Sayantani Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., TIFR, India)
Email: sayanta@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6429 (O - FB-388)
Areas of Interest: Gravity, Fluid dynamics

Dipankar Chakrabarti

Associate Professor (Ph.D., SINP, 2004)
Email: dipankar@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6148 (O - FB378)
Areas of Interest: Quantum Chromodynamics, Lattice Gauge Theory and Lightcone Field Theories

Joydeep Chakrabortty

Assistant Professor (Ph.D, HRI, 2011)
email: joydeep@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7083 (O - FB-372)
Areas of Interest: Particle Physics (Theory and Phenomenology); Main interest: Unification of fundamental forces, Supersymmetry, Supergravity

Pankaj Jain

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

Tapobrata Sarkar

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

Gautam Sengupta

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

Laser Physics

Saikat Ghosh

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

Anand Kumar Jha

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

Asima Pradhan

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

Saurabh Mani Tripathi

Assistant Professor (PhD, IIT Delhi, 2010)
email: smt@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6871 (O - FB377)
Areas of Interest: Fiber and Integrated Optics.

R. Vijaya

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

Harshawardhan Wanare

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

Ion Beam, Plasma and Nuclear Solid State

Sudeep Bhattacharjee

Professor (Ph.D., RIKEN, 1999)
Email: sudeepb@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

Aditya H. Kelkar

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

Harish C. Verma

Professor (Ph.D., IIT Kanpur, 1980)
Email: hcverma@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7681(O - CNF)
Areas of Interest: Mossbauer spectroscopy

Visiting Faculty

Sushil Auluck

Professor (Ph.D.,University of Chicago, 1973)
Email: sauluck@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6148/7092 (O - FB-378)

Emeritus Faculty

R. K. Thareja

Professor (Ph.D., Delhi)
Email: thareja@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7143/7989 (O - SL212)
Areas of Interest: Laser Plasmas, Ultra-fast reactions

Contact-

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kalyanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016

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