PEOPLE Faculty

Jaydeep Basu
Professor & Chairperson

Phone: 080- 2293 2314, 2293 2315
User ID: basu AT iisc.ac.in
Chairperson: chair.phy@iisc.ac.in

Reghu Menon
Professor

Conducting polymers, organic semiconductors, polymer and organic electronics, metal-insulator transition, charge transport and spin dynamics in conducting polymers

Phone: 91-80- 2293 2725 , 2293 2859
User ID: rmenon AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~rmenon

Vijay B. Shenoy
Professor

Physics of strongly correlated materials (High Tc superconductivity, Manganites), Nanoscience with focus on correlation effects in nanosystems.

Tel:+91 80 2293-2888, 2360-2315
Email-id: shenoy AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~shenoy

Jaydeep Basu
Professor

Rheology of Low Dimensional Particulate Systems; Glass Transition in Soft-Nano Materials; Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Scattering/Spectroscopy; Optical Excitations in Nanoparticles - Exciton-Plasmon Interaction; Nano-Optics - Nano Photonics & Nano Plasmonics.

Phone: 080- 2293 3281, 2293 2759
User ID: basu AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~basu

Prabal K Maiti
Professor

Multiscale Modeling of Soft and Bio -materials, Computational Materials science, Computational Nanotechnology, Biophysics.

Phone: 080- 2293 2865, 2360 7301
User ID: maiti AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~maiti

P.S. Anil Kumar
Professor

Spintronics, magnetic nano-structures, surface and thin film magnetism, magneto- transport in metallic multilayers and oxides, spin-polarized electron scattering.

Phone: 080-2293 2632
User ID: anil AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~anil

Arindam Ghosh
Professor

Physics at low dimensions: Interaction in quantum dots and quantum wires, single-electron transport, many-body charge and spin-effects in nanostructures, noise and fluctuations.

Phone: 080- 2293 3288
User ID: arindam AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~arindam

Banibrata Mukhopadhyay
Professor

Physics of compact objects, astrophysical fluid dynamics andaccretion disk theory, nuclear astrophysics, astroparticle physicsand cosmology, field theory in curved space-time.

Phone: 080- 2293 2799, 2360 7704
User ID: bm AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~bm

Subroto Mukerjee
Professor

Theoretical condensed matter physics: Transport in strongly correlated systems in particular thermoelectricity; transport in correlated molecular systems and quantum dots; physics of correlated cold-atomic systems, spinor condensates, optical lattices; statics and dynamics of lower dimensional systems, dynamics near quantum critical points, entanglement in quantum critical states.

Tel:+91 80 2293-2864
Email-id: smukerjee AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~smukerjee

David Logan
Infosys Chair Professor

Coulson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry University of Oxford, UK

Quantum condensed matter theory

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Web: http://research.chem.ox.ac.uk/david-logan.aspx

Prof. Roland Netz
Infosys Chair Professor

Prof. Netz works on the dynamics and structure of biological soft matter. He uses a wide arsenal of theoretical methods, ranging from ab initio and classical force-field based molecular dynamics simulations over coarse-grained simulations to analytic calculus employing scaling arguments, field-theoretic and stochastic methods. He is particularly interested in problems that can only be tackled by a combination of simulations and analytic approaches.

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Web: http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/en/einrichtungen/ag/ag-netz/

Prof. Girish Agarwal
Infosys Chair Professor

GS Agarwal, FRS, Texas A&M University; specializes in quantum optics and is the author of “ Quantum Optics” published by the Cambridge University Press and has more than 700 scientific publications

Research areas: Biophotonics; Plasmonics and Nano photonics; Quantum Optics; Optomechanics

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Web: https://baen.tamu.edu/people/agarwal-girish/

Prof. Yuval Gefen
Infosys Chair Professor

Yuval Gefen holds the Isabelle and Samuel Friedman Professorial Chair of Theoretical Physics at the Weizmann Institute. He has graduated from Tel Aviv University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, and at the University of Washington, Seattle (working with David Thouless), before joining the Weizmann Institute. Professor Gefen has worked as a Senior Fellow, a Distinguished Professor or a visiting professor in numerous universities, including the University of Cambridge, Oxford and Birmingham (UK), University of Leipzig, University of Karlsruhe, University of Koeln and the Free University of Berlin (Germany), Yale University and Princeton University and the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota (USA). He has received numerous awards, including EPSRC and Leverhulme Professorships, Alexander von Humboldt Award, the Max Planck Award, the Helmholtz Award, the Mercator Professorship, International Professorship at the University of Koeln, and the Leibnitz Professorship. He has been a consultant with various companies and institutions, including IBM (USA), Exxon (USA) , NEC (USA), Argonne National Lab (USA). He has been a board member and chair of and consultant to a number of universities. Yuval Gefen’s two-headed research focuses on (1) Quantum condensed matter systems, primarily Quantum Hall and Topological Insulators physics, and (2) Quantum measurement, including quantum state engineering and quantum steering.

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Web:https://www.weizmann.ac.il/physics/prof-yuval-gefen

Prof. Mohit Randeria
Infosys Chair Professor

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Web: https://physics.osu.edu/people/randeria.1

Nandini Trivedi
Satish Dhawan Chair Professor

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-
User ID: AT iisc.ac.in
Web: https://physics.osu.edu/people/trivedi.15

MEENAKSHI SINGH
Associate Professor Fulbright Distinguished Scholar

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-
User ID: AT iisc.ac.in
Web: https://people.mines.edu/msingh/81-2/

Ramesh Chandra Mallik
Associate Professor

Thermoelectric power and transport properties of semiconductor, skutterudite and clathrate. Study on Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of Multilayer Thin Films. Filler and doping effect on Skutterudites. Design and development of Thermal conductivity of Thin Films using 3 Omega Method. Design and development of Thermoelectric Sensor for Radiation detector.

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-2450
User ID: rcmallik AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~rcmallik

Prateek Sharma
Associate Professor

Clusters of galaxies, accretion physics, computational astrophysics, plasma astrophysics.

Tel:91-80- 2293 3375
Email-id: prateek AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~prateek

Aveek Bid
Associate Professor

Mesoscopic Physics - charge and statistics; phase coherent transport; conductance fluctuations in low dimensional systems; transport in strongly correlated oxides.

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Email-id: aveek AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~aveek.bid

Manish Jain
Associate Professor

Theoretical investigations of structural, electronic, and optical properties of materials from first principles using density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory. Application of these methods to calculate experimentally observable properties of defects in solids. Development of new methods to calculate material properties.

Tel:+91 80 2293-2858
Email-id: mjain AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~mjain

Anindya Das
Associate Professor

Transport properties of mesoscopic structures in reduced dimensions: one-dimensional carbon nanotube (CNT); semiconductor nanowires; zero-dimensional quantum dots; two-dimensional graphene; 2D and 3D topological insulators.

Tel:Office: +91 80-2293-2525 / +91 80-2293-2600

Tel:Lab: +91 80-2293-3530

Email-id: anindya AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~anindya

Prerna Sharma
Associate Professor

Soft Condensed Matter

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User ID: prerna AT iisc.ac.in
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/biocolloids/

Nirupam Roy
Associate Professor

Astronomy and Astrophysics; Interstellar medium: thermal stability, turbulence, magnetic field, star formation, galactic dynamics; Galactic Novae: evolution of radio emission, accretion/ejection physics; Radio Astronomy: imaging/spectroscopic techniques, observational cosmology

Phone: +91-80-2293-2056
User ID: nroy AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~nroy

Tanmoy Das
Associate Professor

Correlated and high-Tc superconductivity, Strongly correlated systems, Topological insulators & quantum Hall systems, Spin-orbit density wave.

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-3166
User ID: tnmydas AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~tanmoy/

Vibhor Singh
Associate Professor

Cavity-optomechanics, Superconducting quantum circuits, Nanomechanics, Electron transport in low-dimensional systems

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-2720
User ID: v.singh AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~v.singh

Srimanta Middey
Associate Professor

Emergent phenomena in oxide heterostructures; Strongly correlated systems; Metal-insulator transitions; Superconductivity; Magnetism; X-ray spectroscopy and scattering

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-2861 / +91-(80)-2360 3802
User ID: smiddey AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~srimanta/

Sumilan Banerjee
Associate Professor

Thermalization, quantum chaos and localization in quantum many-body systems; Quantum phase transitions in interacting disordered systems; Superconductivity, magnetism and unconventional metallic states in correlated electronic materials ? cuprates, oxide interfaces; Chiral magnetism and skyrmions.

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-2557
User ID: sumilan AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~sumilan

Prasad Vishnu Bhotla
Chief Research Scientist

"Electrical charge transport studies of carbon nanofibres, nanoparticles, nanotubes at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. Decoration of carbon nanotubes and zinc oxide materials with metal particles. Metal-Insulator transitions in carbon materials. Electron field emission studies on zinc oxide capped carbon nanotubes and polymer composites. Carbon-Polymer nano-composites for gas sensing and electromagnetic shielding applications"

Materials: Carbon nanoparticles, Fibers, Nanotubes, Zinc oxide particles, Nanowires, Polymer composites.

Phone: 080- 2293 2313
User ID: vishnu AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~vishnu/

Suja Elizabeth
Chief Research Scientist

Crystal growth and characterization; phase transitions; multiferroics; magnetic materials; oxides; CMR manganites; spintronics; non-linear optical phenomena.

Phone: 080- 2293 3461, 2293 2721
User ID: liz AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~liz/

D. Victor Suvisesha Muthu
Chief Research Scientist

Raman Spectroscopy, High pressure Raman, IR, Optical absorption and X-ray techniques and Tip-enhanced Raman scattering.

Phone: 080- 2293 2579
User ID: victor AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~victor/

K. Ramesh
Principal Research Scientist

Amorphous Semiconductors, Properties of glasses in the extended glass forming region, pressure induced semiconductor –metal transition, Carbon nano materials.

Phone: 080- 2293 2716, 2293 2748
User ID: kramesh AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~kramesh/

R. Ganesan
Principal Research Scientist

Chalcogenide glassy materials and Multilayers chalcogenide thin films

Phone: 080- 2293 3287 (Lab)
User ID: gans AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~gans

Tarun Deep Saini
Assistant Professor

Cosmology: Dark energy, Gravitational lensing, Structure formation in the Universe, Large scale structure in the Universe.

Tel:+91 80 2293-2866
Email-id: tarun AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~tarun

Rajeev Kumar Jain
Assistant Professor

Theoretical cosmology, Inflation and alternatives, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Primordial magnetic fields, Non-gaussianities, Effective field theory of gravity, Modified gravity, Dark energy

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-3618
User ID: rkjain AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~rkjain

Animesh Kuley
Assistant Professor

Plasma Physics, Radio frequent heating and current drive, Parametric decay instability, Transport, Massively parallel computing, Particle in cell simulation.

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-2529
User ID: akuley AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~akuley

Akshay Singh
Assistant Professor

condensed matter experimental physics and material synthesis, ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy, quantum materials synthesis, two-dimensional semiconducting materials, fundamental dynamics in semiconductors.

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-
User ID: aksy AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~aksy

Sebabrata Mukherjee
Assistant Professor

photonics and condensed matter physics

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-2065
User ID: mukherjee AT iisc.ac.in
Web:https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=M29JjtAAAAAJ

Sumantra Sarkar
Assistant Professor

Statistical Mechanics, Soft-condensed matter and biological physics

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-3764
User ID: AT iisc.ac.in
Web:https://sumantrasarkar.site/

Ambarish Ghosh
Professor

Superfluid helium, chirality and applied optics, novel nano-materials for applications in biology and soft matter physics

Tel:+91 80 2293 2442
Email-id: ambarish AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.cense.iisc.ac.in/ambarish/

Arvind Ayyer
Associate Professor

Equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, exactly solvable models, mathematical physics

Tel:+91 80 2293 3215
Email-id: arvind AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.math.iisc.ac.in/~arvind/

Diptiman Sen
Professor

Tel:+91-80-2293-2974
Email-id: diptiman AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://chep.iisc.ac.in/Personnel/pages/diptiman/index.html

T. V. Ramakrishnan
Distinguished Associate, Centre for Condensed Matter Theory

Physics of electrons, disordered systems, liquids and solids, biological physics

Phone: +91 (80) 2360-0228
User ID:tvrama AT iisc.ac.in
Web:http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~tvrama/

Anil Kumar
Honorary Professor

Quantum Computing by NMR in which the group has used transition and spin-selective pulses in one and two dimensional NMR to (i) prepare pseudo-pure states (ii) execute logical gates and (iii) implement Deutsch-Jozse quantum algorithm.

Phone: 080- 2293 2724
User ID: anilnmr AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://nrc.iisc.ac.in/anil/

S. V. Bhat
INSA Senior Scientist

Experimental studies on strongly correlated electron systems; EPR of CO/OO and CMR manganites; superconductivity, fast ionic conductors; physics of amorphous and supercooled states.

Phone: 080- 2293 2727, 2861, 23600880
User ID: svbhat AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~svbhat

Ajay Kumar Sood
Honorary Professor

Optical Spectroscopy, Soft condensed matter, Nano systems

Phone: 080 – 2293 2964, 2360 2238
User ID: asood AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~asood

Chandan Dasgupta
Honorary Professor

Dynamics and equilibrium properties of supercooled liquids, vortex matter in high-temperature superconductors, dynamics of non-equilibrium systems, neural networks.

Phone: 080- 2293 3278, 2360 3924
User ID: cdgupta AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~cdgupta

H.R Krishnamurthy
Honorary Professor

Theoretical condensed matter physics, especially quantum many body theory and statistical physics. Specifically, Quantum Impurity Physics, Strongly Correlated Electron Systems such as Manganites, Cuprates, etc., Models and Mechanisms of Metal-Insulator Transitions, Tunneling in Quantum Dots.

Phone: 080- 2293 2314, 2315
User ID: hrkrish AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~hrkrish

Chanda J Jog
Honorary Professor

Galactic Dynamics: Lopsided spiral galaxies, verical structure of galaxies, warps, density profile of dark matter halo. Interacting galaxies: Dynamics and evolution of mergers of galaxies, starburst galaxies. Dynamics of interstellar molecular gas clouds.

Phone: 080- 2293 3285, 2360 7703
User ID: cjjog AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~cjjog

Rahul Pandit
Honorary Professor

Condensed-matter theory, statistical mechanics of soft-matter systems, spatiotemporal chaos, turbulence (fluid, passive-scalar, MHD, drag reduction), cardiac arrhythmias, and strongly correlated bosonic and fermionic systems.

Phone: 080- 2293 2249
User ID: rahul AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~rahul

Arnab Rai Choudhuri
Honorary Professor

Plasma astrophysics.  The origin of solar magnetic cycle. Formation of sunspots. Magnetic fields of neutron stars and pulsars.

Phone: 080 - 2293 3284, 080-2360 3481
User ID: arnab AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~arnab/

Sriram Ramaswamy
Honorary Professor

Soft matter, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, biological physics: sedimentation, rheochaos, granular matter, confined fluids, the statistical hydrodynamics of active, living matter.

Phone: +91 (80) 2293-3283 or 2360-2698
User ID: sriram AT iisc.ac.in
Web: http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~sriram