People – CHEP

Faculty Members

B. ANANTHANARAYAN

Email: anant@iisc.ac.in

Position: Professor (Ph.D. , Delaware 1991)
Research Interests:

Chiral Pertubration theory
Low energy physics at high precision
Collider Physics

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Office: A2-07
Telephone: +91-80-2293-3145
Email: anant@iisc.ac.in

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BIPLOB BHATTACHERJEE

Email: biplob@iisc.ac.in

Position: Associate Professor(Ph.D. , Calcutta 2010)
Research Interests:

Higgs phenomology
Dark matter
BSM searches

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Office: E1-08
Telephone: +91-80-2293-3064
Email: biplob@iisc.ac.in

JUSTIN DAVID

Email: justin@iisc.ac.in

Position: Professor(Ph.D. , TIFR 1999)
Research Interests:

String Theory
Gauge-string Duality
Black holes in String theory

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Office: A2-06
Telephone: +91-80-2293-3146
Email: justin@iisc.ac.in

PRASAD HEGDE

Email: prasadhegde@iisc.ac.in

Position: Associate Professor(Ph.D. , Stony Brook 2010)
Research Interests:

Finite temperature field theory
Lattice QCD
QCD at finite temperature and density

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Office: B2-03
Telephone: +91-80-2293-3596
Email: prasadhegde@iisc.ac.in

JYOTHSNA RANI KOMARAGIRI

Email: jyothsna@iisc.ac.in

Position: Associate Professor(Ph.D. , TIFR 2006)
Research Interests:

Experimental High Energy Physics
Collider Physics
Heavy Quark Physics
Dark matter searches

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Office: B2-07
Telephone: +91-80-2293-3594
Email: jyothsna@iisc.ac.in

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CHETHAN KRISHNAN

Email: chethan@iisc.ac.in

Position: Associate Professor(Ph.D. , Austin 2006)
Research Interests:

String theory
Black holes
Quantum Field Theory

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Office: B2-13
Telephone: +91-80-2293-2068
Email: chethan@iisc.ac.in

RANJAN LAHA

Email: ranjanlaha@iisc.ac.in

Position: Assistant Professor (Ph.D. , Ohio State 2014)
Research Interests:

Dark Matter
AstroParticle Physics
BSM Physics

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Office: E1-12
Telephone: +91-80-2293-2061
Email: ranjanlaha@iisc.ac.in

GAURAV NARAIN

Email: gnarain@iisc.ac.in

Position: Assistant Professor (Ph.D. , SISSA 2010)
Research Interests:

Quantum Gravity
Path Integrals
Renormalization Group

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Office: B2-09
Telephone: +91-80-2293-3789
Email: gnarain@iisc.ac.in

APOORVA D. PATEL

Email: adpatel@iisc.ac.in

Position: Professor(Ph.D. , Caltech 1984)
Research Interests:

Lattice Gauge theory
Quantum computation
Renormalization Group
Quark-Gluon Plasma

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Office: A2-03
Telephone: +91-80-2293-2268
Email: adpatel@iisc.ac.in

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NIRMAL RAJ

Email:nraj@iisc.ac.in

Position: Assistant Professor (Ph.D. , Oregon 2015)
Research Interests:

Astroparticle Physics
Dark Matter
High Energy Phenemenology

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Office: B2-11
Telephone: +91-80-2293-2396
Email:nraj@iisc.ac.in

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DIPTIMAN SEN

Email:diptiman@iisc.ac.in

Position: Professor (Ph.D. , Princeton 1984), FASc, FNA, FNASc
Research Interests:

Condensed Matter Systems in Low Dimensions
Topological Insulators
Quantum Wires

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Office:A2-05
Telephone: +91-80-2293-2974
Email: diptiman@iisc.ac.in

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ANINDA SINHA

Email: asinha@iisc.ac.in

Position: Professor(Ph.D. , Cambridge 2005)
Research Interests:

String theory
Black holes
Applications of guage gravity duality
Conformal Field Theory

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Office: A2-08
Telephone: +91-80-2293-2851
Email: asinha@iisc.ac.in

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SACHINDEO VAIDYA

Email:vaidya@iisc.ac.in

Position: Professor(Ph.D. , Syracuse 1998)
Research Interests:

Non-Commutative geometry
Quantum Field Theory

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Office:A2-04
Telephone:+91-80-2293-3148
Email: vaidya@iisc.ac.in

SUDHIR VEMPATI

Email:vempati@iisc.ac.in

Position: Professor and Chair (Ph.D. , PRL 2000)
Research Interests:

Physics beyond Standard Model Neutrinos and Dark Matter
SUSY and Grand Unified theories

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Office: A2-02
Telephone: +91-80-2293-2543
Email: vempati@iisc.ac.in

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INSA SENIOR SCIENTISTS

ROHINI M. GODBOLE

Email:rohini@iisc.ac.in

Position: Professor
Research Interests:

Physics at LHC and NLC
QCD Phenomology
SUSY and Electroweak Physics

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Office: A2-01
Telephone: +91-80-2293-2845
Email: rohini@iisc.ac.in

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ROMESH KAUL

Email:romeshkaul@iisc.ac.in

Position: Professor
Research Interests:

Particle Physics
Quantum Field Theory
Gravity

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Office: B2-05
Telephone: –
Email: romeshkaul@iisc.ac.in

Visiting Chair Professors

Present

Tracy Slatyer

Duration:11-01-2025 onwards

Position: Professor of Physics, MIT
Position @ CHEP: Satish Dhawan Visiting Chair Professor
Research Interests:

Astrophysics Theory
High Energy Theory
Particle Physics

Email:tslatyer@mit.edu

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Eric Laenen

Duration:07-11-2024 to 30-11-2024

Position: Professor of Theoretical physics, University of Amsterdam
Position @ CHEP: Infosys Chair Professor
Research Interests:

Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics
Beyond the Standard Model
Phenomenology of the Standard Model
Higgs physics

Email:E.L.M.P.Laenen@uva.nl

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Eung Jin Chun

Duration:19-10-2024 to 18-11-2024

Position: Professor, Korea institute for Advanced Studies
Position @ CHEP: Satish Dhawan Visiting Chair Professor
Research Interests:

Particle Physics
Beyond the Standard Model

Email:ejchun@kias.re.kr

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Samir D. Mathur

Duration:05/07/2024 to 02/08/2024

Position: Professor, The Department of Physics, The Ohio State University
Position @ CHEP: Satish Dhawan Visiting Chair Professor
Research Interests:

High Energy Theory
Cosmology

Email: mathur.16@osu.edu

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V. Parameshwaran Nair

Duration:03/01/2024 to 03/02/2024

Position: Professor, Physics Department, City College of CUNY
Position @ CHEP: Satish Dhawan Visiting Chair Professor
Research Interests:

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
High Energy Physics
Elementary Particle Physics

Email: vpnair@ccny.cuny.edu

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Sougato Bose

Duration:18/07/2023 to 21/08/2023

Position: Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
Position @ CHEP: Satish Dhawan Visiting Chair Professor
Research Interests:

Electronics, sensors and digital hardware
Quantum Physics
Particle and high energy physics

Email: s.bose@ucl.ac.uk

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INSPIRE/RAMANUJAN FACULTY

Arnab Priya Saha

Email: arnabsaha@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Scattering amplitudes
Ph.D Institution IMSc Chennai, 2018
Office: E1-11
Email: arnabsaha@iisc.ac.in
Fellowship: INSPIRE

Minakshi Nayak

Email: minakshin@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas:Experimental High Energy Physics, Flavor Physics, BSM Physics, Direct Search for LLP at Intensity Frontier Experiments, particularly at Belle II
Ph.D InstitutionIIT Madras, 2015
Office: E1-06
Email: minakshin@iisc.ac.in
Fellowship: RAMANUJAN

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Sanchari Bhattacharyya

Email: sancharibhat@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: High Energy Physics (Phenomenology)
Ph.D Institution: University of Calcutta, 2022
Office: E1-11
Email: sancharibhat@iisc.ac.in

Debajit Bose

Email: debajitbose@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas:Dark matter phenomenology
Ph.D Institution:IIT Kharagpur, 2024
Office: E1-11
Email:debajitbose@iisc.ac.in

Haridev S R

Email: haridevsr@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: High Energy Physics (Theory)
Ph.D Institution:BITS Pilani Hyderabad, 2024
Office: E1-11
Email: haridevsr@iisc.ac.in

Arkajyoti Manna

Email: arkajyotim@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Theoretical high energy physics
Ph.D Institution:IMSc, Chennai
Office: E1-11
Email: arkajyotim@iisc.ac.in

Tribeni Mishra

Email:
tribenim@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Search for Supersymmetry using data collected by CMS detector and Study of CMS HCal performance during the Run2 data-taking period
Ph.D Institution:NISER
Office: E1-11
Email: tribenim@iisc.ac.in

Samadrita Mukherjee

Email: samadritam@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Beyond Standard Model Phenomenology, Collider Physics, Effective Field Theory
Ph.D Institution: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata
Office: E1-11
Email: samadritam@iisc.ac.in

Girish L. Muralidhara

Email:girishlinga1@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Nuclear and Particle Theory, Effective Field Theories, Astroparticle Physics
Ph.D Institution: University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA, 2024
Office: E1-11
Email: girishlinga1@iisc.ac.in

Milan Patra

Email: milanpatra@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Relativistic hydrodynamics, Black hole dynamics at large dimensions, Soft graviton theorem, Black hole entropy, Flat space holography, Bulk reconstruction.
Ph.D Institution:NISER, Bhubaneswar
Office: E1-11
Email: milanpatra@iisc.ac.in

Rohit K Ramakrishnan

Email: rohithkr@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum Information, Quantum Machine Learning
Ph.D Institution:Indian Institute of Science (Department of Electrical Communication Engineering), 2023
Office: E1-11
Email: rohithkr@iisc.ac.in

Students

Sreemayee Aditya

Email: sreemayeea@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Condensed Matter Physics (Theory).
Program & Joining Year: Int PhD (2019)
Office: F1-06
Email: sreemayeea@iisc.ac.in

Prasanjit Aich

Email: prasanjita@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Field Theory, Effective field theory models for QCD.
Program & Joining Year: Int PhD (2018)
Office: B2-14
Email: prasanjita@iisc.ac.in

Mani Shankar Ailiga

Email: manishankara@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Gravity
Program & Joining Year: Int PhD (2021)
Office: NA
Email: manishankara@iisc.ac.in

Apoorva Asthana

Email: apoorvaa@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum Gravity, Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Information Theory
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2023)
Office: b2-14
Email: apoorvaa@iisc.ac.in

Sayan Bhakta

Email: sayanbhakta@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum Field Theory
Program & Joining Year: Int. PhD (2022)
Office:
Email: sayanbhakta@iisc.ac.in

Faizan Bhat

Email: faizanbhat@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum Field Theory
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2020)
Office:F1-08
Email: faizanbhat

Rayirth Bhat

Email: rayirthbhat@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: String Theory, Black Holes, Holography, Entanglement Entropy
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2023)
Office:B2-16
Email: rayirthbhat@iisc.ac.in

Chaitanya Bhatt

Email: chaitanyab@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: High energy physics, particle physics, quantum field theory, Yang-Mills matrix models
Program & Joining Year: Int. PhD (2019)
Office:B2-16
Email: chaitanyab@iisc.ac.in

Debajyoti Biswas

Email: debajyotib@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Theoretical High Energy Physics, Dark Matter Phenomenology.
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2022)
Office:EG-07
Email: debajyotib@iisc.ac.in

Camellia Bose

Email:camelliabose@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: BSM Phenomenology, Machine Learning in High Energy Physics
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2018)
Office:F1-06
Email: camelliabose@iisc.ac.in

Debapriyo Chowdhury

Email:debapriyoc@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum Field Theory, S-matrix Bootstrap
Program & Joining Year: Int. PhD (2019)
Office:B2-16
Email: debapriyoc@iisc.ac.in

Sudeepan Datta

Email: sudeepand@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Precision calculations, Perturbative QCD
Program & Joining Year: nt. PhD (2017)
Office:F1-08
Email: sudeepand@iisc.ac.in

Amandip De

Email:amandipde@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Beyond the Standard Model Phenomenology, Top Quark Physics, Supersymmetry
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2016)
Office:B2-16
Email: amandipde@iisc.ac.in

Abhishek Dubey

Email:abhishekd1@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology
Program & Joining Year: Int. PhD (2018)
Office:F1-06
Email: abhishekd1@iisc.ac.in

Vishal Gayari

Email:vishalgayari@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Conformal Bootstrap, String Theory and Black Holes
Program & Joining Year: Int. PhD (2022)
Office:F1-08
Email: vishalgayari@iisc.ac.in

Devendra Nath Goswami

Email:devendrag@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Theoretical High Energy Physics
Program & Joining Year:PhD (2024)
Office:B2-14
Email: devendrag@iisc.ac.in

Deep Jyoti Das

Email:deepjyoti@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: ark Matter Phenomenology
Program & Joining Year:Int. PhD (2020)
Office:EG-07
Email: deepjyoti@iisc.ac.in

Kirana K. K.

Email:kiranakk@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: High Energy Physics
Program & Joining Year:PhD (2024)
Office:B2-16
Email: kiranakk@iisc.ac.in

Srijan Kumar

Email:srijankumar@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: AdS/CFT, QFT at Finite Temperature
Program & Joining Year: Int. PhD (2019)
Office:B2-14
Email: srijankumar@iisc.ac.in

Leonard Schwarze

Email:leonards@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Holography, Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2025)
Office:B2-16
Email: leonards@iisc.ac.in

Shubhashis Mallik

Email: shubhashism@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum Cosmology, General Relativity, Quantum Field theory
Program & Joining Year: Int. PhD (2022)
Office:E1-02
Email: shubhashism@iisc.ac.in

Sagar Modak

Email:sagarmodak@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Phenomenological High Energy Physics, Collider Physics, Effective Field Theory
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2022)
Office:EG-07
Email: sagarmodak@iisc.ac.in

Sudipta Mondal

Email:sudiptam@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: High Energy Physics
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2024)
Office:B2-16
Email: sudiptam@iisc.ac.in

Ranjini Mondol

Email:ranjinim@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Gravitation and cosmology
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2019)
Office:B2-14
Email: ranjinim@iisc.ac.in

Pradipta Sankar Pathak

Email:pradiptap@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Black Holes, AdS/CFT, Quantum Information Theory
Program & Joining Year:Int. PhD (2022)
Office:E1-03
Email: pradiptap@iisc.ac.in

Anirudhya Pramanik

Email:anirudhyap@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: High Energy Physics
Program & Joining Year:PhD (2024)
Office:B2-16
Email:anirudhyap@iisc.ac.in

Pingal Pratyush Nath

Email: pratyushnath1610@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum Information, Quantum Cryptography, Complexity
Program & Joining Year: Int. PhD (2018)
Office:B2-16
Email: pratyushnath1610@iisc.ac.in

Vishal Rao

Email: vishal.rao.physics@gmail.com

Research Areas: Lattice QCD
Program & Joining Year: Ph.D (2021)
Office:EG-07
Email: vishal.rao.physics@gmail.com

Akash Kumar Saha

Email:akashks@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Dark Matter Phenomenology, Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology
Program & Joining Year: Int PhD (2019)
Office:EG-07
Email: akashks@iisc.ac.in

Soumen Saren

Email:soumensaren@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum Field Theory, Scattering Amplitudes(QFT and Strings), Field Theory, PIML, PINN
Program & Joining Year:Int. PhD (2022)
Office:F1-06
Email: soumensaren@iisc.ac.in

Anand Sharma

Email:anandsharma2@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Dark Matter Phenomenology, Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology
Program & Joining Year: PhD (2023)
Office:B2-16
Email: anandsharma2@iisc.ac.in

Rinchen Sherpa

Email:rinchens@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Theoretical High Energy Physics
Program & Joining Year:Ph.D (2022)
Office: EG-07
Email: rinchens@iisc.ac.in

Aadarsh Singh

Email:aadarshsingh@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: HEP
Program & Joining Year:Ph.D (2020)
Office:B2-16
Email: aadarshsingh@iisc.ac.in

Abhijeet Singh

Email: abhijeets@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Dark Matter phenomenology, Neutrinos
Program & Joining Year: Ph.D (2021)
Office:EG-07
Email: abhijeets@iisc.ac.in

Sangeetha N Tallur

Email:sangeethan@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: –
Program & Joining Year: Int PhD (2023)
Office:B2-14
Email: sangeethan@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Dark matter, Astro-particle physics, Cosmology
Program & Joining Year: nt. Ph.D (2022) (2023)
Office:F1-06
Email: manishtamta@iisc.ac.in

Manish Kumar Tamta

Email:manishtamta@iisc.ac.in

Vaibhav

Email:vaibhav2021@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum Field Theory and Black holes.
Program & Joining Year: Int Ph.D (2021)
Office:NA
Email:vaibhav2021@iisc.ac.in

Venkata Lokesh Kumar Yandoti

Email: venkatakumar@iisc.ac.in

Research Areas: Quantum many-body physics
Program & Joining Year: Ph.D (2017)
Office:
Email: venkatakumar@iisc.ac.in

Office

Keshava P. C.

Email: keshavapc@iisc.ac.in

Office Number: +91 080 2293 2474
Email: keshavapc@iisc.ac.in
Office: A2-09

Saravana Kumar L.

Email: saravanal@iisc.ac.in

Office Number: +91 080 2293 2266
Email: saravanal@iisc.ac.in
Office: A2-09

Vinayak Sanil

Email: vinayaks@iisc.ac.in

Office Number: +91 080 2293 2266
Email: vinayaks@iisc.ac.in
Office: A2-08

Manu Y.

Email: manuy@iisc.ac.in

Office Number: +91 080 2293 2266
Email: manuy@iisc.ac.in
Office: A2-08