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
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
Assistant Professor
Area of Research: Amorphous solids, supercooled liquids, active matter systems, rheology
Email: vishwas@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