Faculty

The Department currently has 11 permanent faculty, one INSPIRE faculty, and two faculty with secondary affiliation to the Department of Physics.

Regular Faculty

Associate Professor 

Area of Research: Experimental condensed matter physics, 2D materials and perovskites

Email: jayakumar@iitpkd.ac.in

Associate Professor and Head

Area of Research: Non-equilibrium dynamics, quantum phase transitions, quantum Information

Email: uma@iitpkd.ac.in

Assistant Professor 

Area of Research: Quantum field theory, string theory

Email: prithvi@iitpkd.ac.in

Assistant Professor

Area of Research: Experimental condensed matter physics, magnetism and superconductivity, material science - single crystal growth

Email: smanni@iitpkd.ac.in

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Assistant Professor 

Area of Research: Strongly correlated electron systems, Quantum spin liquids, Topological phases, Disorder

Email: kdhochak@iitpkd.ac.in

Assistant Professor

Area of Research: Experimental biophysics, physics of cancer

Email: bibhu@iitpkd.ac.in

Associate Professor 

Area of Research: Theoretical astrophyics, stellar evolution,  galactic chemical evolution, big bang nucleosynthesis

Email: projjwal@iitpkd.ac.in

Associate Professor

Area of Research: Quantum information theory, quantum computation, quantum thermodynamics, quantum many-body systems 

Email: amit@iitpkd.ac.in

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Assistant Professor 

Area of Research: Amorphous solids, supercooled liquids, active matter systems, rheology

Email: vishwas@iitpkd.ac.in

Assistant Professor

Area of Research: Statistical mechanics, turbulence

Email: akshayb@iitpkd.ac.in

Ajeesh M. Omanakuttan

Assistant Professor 

Area of Research: Experimental condensed matter physics, quantum materials under extreme conditions

Email: ajeesh@iitpkd.ac.in

Inspire Faculty

Inspire Faculty 

Area of Research: Experimental condensed matter physics, materials science - single crystal growth

Email: moumita@iitpkd.ac.in

Faculty with Secondary Affiliation to the Dept. of Physics

Associate Professor 

Area of Research: Theoretical chemical physics, biophysical processes, soft condensed matter, equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, dynamics of macromolecules, biopolymers

Email: debarati@iitpkd.ac.in

Assistant Professor

Area of Research: RF and microwave, weather radar, microwave remote sensing, microwave radiometer

Email: swaroop@iitpkd.ac.in