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LIST OF FACULTY MEMBERS

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT:

Poulose Poulose
Ph. D. (PRL, Ahmedabad)
Professor & Head
Office: Room No. 303, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2701 (HOD Office)/ 2713 (Office) / 4713 (Resi.)
Email: poulose [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Theoretical Physics; High energy physics phenomenology, CP violation, Mass Generation mechanism, Low energy Gravity.

LIST OF FACULTY MEMBERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

Pratima Agarwal
Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Office: Room No. 203, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2702 (Office) / 4702 (Resi.)
Email: pratima [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics (Experimental); Amorphous Semiconductor Materials and Devices Nanocrystalline semiconductors.

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Saurabh Basu
Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Office: Room No. 204, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2711 (Office) / 4711 (Resi.)
Email: saurabh [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics (Theory); High T C superconductors, Quantum magnetism Magnetic semiconductors.

Bipul Bhuyan
Ph. D. (Delhi Univ.)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 307, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2710 (Office) / 4710 (Resi.)
Email: bhuyan [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: High Energy Physics (Experiment); CP violation, Rare K and B meson decays, ILC R & D.

Swati Bhattacharya
Ph. D. (MPIP, Mainz, Germany)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 305, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2735 (Office)
Email: swaticb [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Soft Condensed Matter Theory and Simulation, Computational Biophysics, Bio-Nano Interface.

Subhaditya Bhattacharya
Ph. D. (HRI, Allahabad)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 14, Centre for Environment, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 3558 (Office)
Email: subhab [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: High Energy Physics (Theory), Phenomenology of Standard Model and Beyond, Supersymmetry, Dark Matter, LHC.

Bosanta R Boruah
Ph. D. (Imperial College London)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 007, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2725 (Office) / 4725 (Resi.)
Email: brboruah [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Lasers and Optics (Experiment & Theory); Programmable Diffractive Optics, Confocal Microscopy, Phase Stepping Interferometry,
Vectorial Diffraction Theory.

Debasish Borah
Ph. D. (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 05, Centre for Educational Technology, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 3563 (Office)
Email: dborah [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Particle Physics Model Building, Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology.

Sayan Chakrabarti
Ph. D. (SINP, Kolkata)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 18, Centre for Environment, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 3556 (Office) / 5556 (Resi.)
Email: sayan.chakrabarti [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: High Energy Physics (Theory), General relativity, Black hole perturbations, Gravitational waves, Cosmology

Sovan Chakraborty
Ph. D. (SINP, Kolkata)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 303, Centre for Educational Technology, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 3568 (Office)
Email: sovan [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Astroparticle Physics, High Energy Astrophysics, Neutrino Oscillations, Supernovae Neutrinos, Ultra High Energy Neutrinos & Dark
Matter.

Santabrata Das
Ph. D. (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)
Associate Professor

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Office: Room No. 006, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2726 (Office) / 4726 (Resi.)
Email: sbdas [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Astrophysics (Theory); Astrophysical flows around compact objects, Ultra high energy cosmic rays.

Tarak Nath Dey

Ph. D. (PRL, Ahmedabad)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 003, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2723 (Office) / 4723 (Resi.)
Email: tarak.dey [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Quantum Optics (Theory); Coherent control of pulse propagation, Nonlinear optics, Optical solitons, Negative index media,
Bose-Einstein condensates.

Subhradip Ghosh
Ph. D. (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)
Professor
Office: Room No. 306, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2717 (Office) / 4717 (Resi.)
Email: subhra [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics (Theory); Electronic Structure theory, Ordering and Phase stability of disordered alloys, Vibrational
properties of metallic aloys.

Pravat Kumar Giri

Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Office: Room No. 205, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2703 (Office) / 4703 (Resi.)
Email: giri [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics (Experimental); Semiconductor nanostructures, Ion-solid interactions, Optoelectronic materials & devices,
Nanotechnology.

Charudatt Y Kadolkar
Ph. D. (IIT Bombay)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 201, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2704 (Office) / 4704 (Resi.)
Email: charu [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics (Theory); Magnetism, Defects in Ionic Materials, Group Theoretical approaches to Molecular Problems.

Alika Khare
Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur)
Professor
Office: Room No. 206, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2705 (Office) / 4705 (Resi.)
Email: alika [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Lasers and Photonics (Experiment & Theory); Laser Physics and Spectroscopy, Laser Matter Interaction, Plasma Diagnostics,
Interferometry.

Sunil K Khijwania
Ph. D. (IIT Delhi)
Professor
Office: Room No. 301, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2716 (Office) / 4716 (Resi.)
Email: skhijwania [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Fiber Optics (Experiment & Theory); Fiber & Integrated Optics, Photonic Crystal Fiber and Applications, Surface Plasmon Resonance
based Sensors, Fiber Bragg Gratings and based Devices, Fiber Optic Sensor, Bio/Nano-Photonics.

Gagan Kumar
Ph. D. (IIT, Delhi)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 16, Centre for Environment, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 3557 (Office)
Email: gk [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Terahertz Plasmonics and metamaterials, Guided Wave Devics, Ultrafast Spectroscopy.

Meduri C Kumar
Ph. D. (Univ. of Hyderabad)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 04, Centre for Educational Technology, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 3566 (Office)
Email: mckumar [at] iitg.ernet.in

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Research: High Energy Physics (Theory), Particle Physics, Higher order QCD corrections for LHC and Tevatron, Standard Model and beyond.

Debaprasad Maity
Ph. D. (IACS, Kolkata)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 001, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2730 (Office)
Email: debu [at] iitg.ernet.in, debu.imsc [at] gmail.com
Research: High Energy (Theory); Cosmology, Ads/CMT

Uday Narayan Maiti

Ph. D. (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 017, Centre for Environment, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 3559 (Office)
Email: udaymaiti [at] iitg.ernet.in; udaymaiti [at] gmail.com
Research: Graphene, carbon nanotube, Inorganic nanostructures, Energy storage and conversion, Nanomaterials based electronic devices

Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Ph. D. (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 305, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2722 (Office)
Email: bibhas.majhi [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: High Energy Physics (Theory); General theory of relativity, Field theory on curved spacetimes, Black holes, Cosmology,
Thermodynamical aspects of gravity, Fluid-gravity correspondence.

Pankaj Kumar Mishra

Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 306, Center for Educational and Technology(CET), IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 3567 (Office)
Email: pankaj.mishra [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Nonlinear Physics (Theory and Simulation): Quantum turbulence, Instabilities and turbulence in thermal convection and MHD,
Supercooled liquid and glasses.

Tapan Mishra
Ph. D. (IIA, Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 06, Centre for Educational Technology(CET), IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 3564 (Office)
Email: mishratapan [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics(Theory); Quantum Phase Transitions, Many-body physics with strongly correlated quantum gases in
optical lattice.

Malay Kumar Nandy

Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 208, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2706 (Office) / 4706 (Resi.)
Email: mknandy [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Theoretical Physics; Statistical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Turbulence Field Theory, Plasma Physics, Quantum Computation.

Soumitra Nandi
Ph. D. (Univ. of Calcutta)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 004, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2729 (Office) / 4729 (Resi.)
Email: soumitra.nandi [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: High Energy Physics (Theory); Quark and Lepton Flavour Physics, Flavour Symmetries, CP violation, precision calculations in the
SM, Special interest in QCD, Heavy Quark Effective Theory and Soft Collinear Effective Theory.

Padma Kumar Padmanabhan

Ph. D. (IISc, Bangalore)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 108, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2718 (Office) / 4718 (Resi.)
Email: padmakumarp [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed matter (Theory); Atomistic Modeling and Simulation of Condensed States of Matter

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Dilip Pal
Ph. D. (TIFR, Mumbai)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 101, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2720 (Office) / 4720 (Resi.)
Email: dpal [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Low Temperature Physics and Material Science (Experimental); Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Vortex states in
superconductors, Superconductivity and Magnetism.

D. Pamu
Ph. D. (Univ. of Hyderabad)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 106, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2721 (Office) / 4721 (Resi.)
Email: pamu [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics; High-k and low loss materials, FerroelectricsCeramics, Oxide thin films Nanomaterials.

Kanhaiya Pandey
Ph. D. (IISc, Bangalore)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 03, Centre for Educational Technology(CET), IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 3565 (Office)
Email: kanhaiyapandey [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Atomic, molecular and optical physics (Experiment); Laser cooling and trapping of atoms, BEC, Many body physics, artificial gauge
field; Atomic coherence, EIT, magnetometry; Spectroscopy and frequency metrology of optical-atomic transitions.

Perumal Alagarsamy
Ph. D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Professor
Office: Room No. 304, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2714 (Office) / 4714 (Resi.)
Email: perumal [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics (Experimental); Magnetism, Nanostructured Materials, Nanocrystalline Materials, Magnetic Thin Films,
Metallic Glasses.

Udit Raha
Ph. D. (University of Bonn, Germany)
Assistant Professor
Office: Room No. 306, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2727 (Office) / 4727 (Resi.)
Email: udit.raha [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Quantum Chromodynamics and Nuclear Effective Field Theories.

Seenipandian Ravi
Ph. D. (Univ. of Hyderabad)
Professor
Office: Room No. 102, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2707 (Office) / 4707 (Resi.)
Email: sravi [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics (Experimental); Magnetism, Superconductivity, Low temperature Physics.

Sitangshu Bikas Santra

Ph. D. (Bose Institute, Kolkata)
Professor
Office: Room No. 207, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2708 (Office) / 4708 (Resi.)
Email: santra [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics (Theory); Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical Physics.

Amarendra Kumar Sarma

Ph. D. (IIT Delhi)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 103, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2709 (Office) / 4709 (Resi.)
Email: aksarma [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Nonlinear and Quantum Optics (Theory); Quantum Optomechanics, Optical Force, Cavity QED, Coherent control, Extreme Nonlinear
Optics, Solitons, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Plasmonics and Transformation Optics, Parity-time Symmetric Optics.

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Ashwini Kumar Sharma

Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 107, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2724 (Office) / 4724 (Resi.)
Email: aksharma [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Lasers and Optics (Experimental); Laser produced plasmas, laser ablation deposition of thin films, laser-based sensors.

Girish Sampath Setlur

Ph. D. (Univ. of Illinois)
Professor
Office: Room No. 302, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2715 (Office) / 4715 (Resi.)
Email: gsetlur [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Theoretical Physics; Higher Dimensional Bosonization, Strongly Correlated Systems, Optical Properties of Semiconductors.

Arunansu Sil
Ph. D. (Univ. of Calcutta)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 308, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2719 (Office) / 4719 (Resi.)
Email: asil [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: High Energy Physics & Cosmology (Theory); Phenomenology of Physics beyond the Standard Model, Supersymmetry and its
breaking, Neutrino Physics, Matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe, Inflation.

Ananthakrishnan Srinivasan
Ph. D. (IISc, Bangalore)
Professor
Office: Room No. 202, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2712 (Office) / 4712 (Resi.)
Email: asrini [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Condensed Matter Physics (Experimental); Glasses and Disordered Materials, Thin Films, Metallic Alloys, Nanophase materials,
Shape Memory Alloys.

Subhash Thota
Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur)
Associate Professor
Office: Room No. 008, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati - 781 039
Phone: +91 361 258 2728 (Office) / 4728 (Resi.)
Email: subhasht [at] iitg.ernet.in
Research: Material Science and Engineering; Magnetic Nanostructures, High-k Dielectrics, Oxide Heterostructures, Superlattices,
Magnetocaloric Effects, Relaxor ferroelectrics, Semimagnetic semiconductors, Bandgap Engineering.

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