Faculty Members
Kanchana. V
Professor & Head of the Department
Office: Academic Block -A, 104
Phone: 040 2301 6702
Email: kanchana@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Computational Condensed matter physics, Topological materials, Magnetism and superconductivity, Energy Harvesting materials, Spintronic application
Anjan Kumar Giri
Professor
Office: Academic Block -A, 407
Phone: 040 2301 6701
Email: giria@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Understanding the baryon asymmetry of the Universe and to decipher the signals of new physics (BSM) using flavour physics and neutrino physics.
Anupam Gupta
Assistant Professor
Office: C-208/D
Phone: 040 2301 6719
Email: agupta@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Soft-matter, Biophysics, Complex Systems, Fluid Turbulence.
Anurag Tripathi
Assistant Professor
Office: B-Block, 415
Phone: 040 2301 6713
Email: tripathi@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Theoretical Particle Physics. Perturbative QCD. Feynman Loop Integral Calculations. Soft and Collinear QCD Resummation. Higgs Phenomenology.
Arabinda Haldar
Assistant Professor
Office: B-Block, 409
Phone: 040 2301 6717
Email: arabinda@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Magnon spintronics, Nanomagnetic devices, Imaging spin waves at the nanoscale using Brillouin light scattering spectro-microscopy, Ferromagnetic resonance, Thin film nanofabrication (Lithography), Functional magnetic materials.
Bhuvanesh Ramakrishna
Associate Professor
Office: B-Block, 318
Phone: 040 2301 6712
Email: bhuvan@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Intense Laser Plasma Interaction, Table top accelerators, Nuclear Fusion with Lasers , proton beam therapy.
Joyjit Kundu
Assistant Professor
Office: C-Block, 112/F
Phone: 040 2301 6718
Email: jkundu@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Statistical physics of condensed matter systems.
Jyoti Ranjan Mohanty
Associate Professor
Office: B-Block, 218
Phone: 040 2301 6709
Email: jmohanty@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Nanomagnetism, Data Storage,Scanning Probe and X-ray based magnetic imaging,Ferromagnetic semiconductor, Spintronics, Resonant Magnetic scattering, Ultra-fast magnetism and Micromagnetic Simulations.
Kirit Makwana
Assistant Professor
Office: C-Block, 213-A
Phone: 040 2301 6721
Email: kdmakwana@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Basic plasma physics, space plasmas, plasma astrophysics, magnetic reconnection, plasma turbulence, and numerical simulations.
Manish K. Niranjan
Associate Professor
Office: C-Block, 516
Phone: 040 2301 6705
Email: manish@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Theoretical condenced matter physics, Computational materials science, Semiconductor heterostructures, Oxide materials and heterostructures, Electron transport in nanostructures.
Mayukh Pahari
Assistant Professor
Office: C-Block, 308/C
Phone: 040 2301 6722
Email: mayukh@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Black Hole Astrophysics, UV/optical/X-ray Astronomy, Active Galactic Nuclei, Relativistic Simulations.
Narendra Sahu
Associate Professor
Office: C-Block, 402
Phone: 040 2301 6706
Email: nsahu@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Beyond SM physics, Model building (Neutrino Physics and dark matter), Leptogenesis , Direct, Indirect and Collider Search of Dark Matter.
Nithyanandan Kanagaraj
Assistant Professor
Office: C-Block, 313
Phone: 040 2301 6723
Email: nithyan@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Theoretical and experimental aspects of Optics & Photonics, Ultrafast Fiber lasers and amplifiers, Machine learning in (Smart) Photonic systems, Complex Photonics and Photonic computing, Nonlinear Dynamics & Integrable Systems, Nonlinear (Fiber) Optics, Optical fiber Communication and Signal Processing.
Prem Pal
Professor
Office: Academic Block -A, 410
Phone: 040 2301 6704
Email: prem@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: MEMS & MicroNano System /Microelectronics technology, MEMS & MicroNano System based bio/chemical and mechanical sensors, Polymer MEMS & MicroNano System , RFMEMS & MicroNano System , Thin films for MEMS & MicroNano System , In-situ observation of semiconductor processes.
Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay
Assistant Professor
Office: B-Block, 506
Phone: 040 2301 6716
Email: bpriyo@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Physics at the LHC, Higgs physics, Supersymmetry.
Raghavendra Srikanth Hundi
Assistant Professor
Office: C-Block, 536
Phone: 040 2301 6710
Email: rshundi@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Particle physics phenomenology, Beyond standard model, Neutrino masses.
Sai Santosh Kumar Raavi
Associate Professor
Office: B-Block, 301
Phone: 040 2301 6711
Email: sskraavi@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Ultrafast laser spectroscopy, Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics, Organic Photonics (OLEDs, Detectors) and Organics Photovoltaics (BHJ, Perovskite, DSSC).
Saket Asthana
Professor
Office: Academic Block -A, 606
Phone: 040 2301 6703
Email: asthanas@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Multifunctional oxides, Colossal Magnetoresistive, Spintronic, Multiferroic and Magnetocaloric Materials; Spin crossover Materials, Molecular bistability and Photomagnetism.
Saurabh Sandilya
Assistant Professor
Office: C-Block, 313/A
Phone: 040 2301 6720
Email: saurabh@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Search for new physics in the rare decays of B-mesons, Development of High Energy Physics Detectors, Member of Belle and Belle II Collaborations.
Shantanu Desai
Associate Professor
Office: C-Block, 414
Phone: 040 2301 6715
Email: shantanud@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Cosmology, Galaxy Clusters, Pulsar Timing, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Astrostatistics, Data Mining.
Shubho R. Roy
Assistant Professor
Office: C-Block, 533
Phone: 040 2301 6714
Email: sroy@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Holographic reconstruction of gravity from gauge theory (Gauge-Gravity duality or AdS/CFT), Quantum Aspects of Black holes using D-branes (Matrix theory), 2+1 dimensional gravity, higher spin gravity, Dynamics of non-abelian charged fluids (QGP).
Suryanarayana Jammalamadaka
Associate Professor
Office: C-Block, 513
Phone: 040 2301 6708
Email: surya@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Magnetic materials, Device physics, Spintronics, Micromagnetic simulations, Data storage, Non volatile memories & Neuromorphic computing.
Vandana Sharma
Associate Professor
Office: C-Block, 432
Phone: 040 2301 6707
Email: vsharma@phy.iith.ac.in
Area of Research: Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics using a combination of Ultrashort laser pulses and Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy.