Topic-wise groups of Faculty
Astrophysics (Theory)
Projjwal Banerjee
Associate Professor
Joined: 2019
Research: Theoretical astrophyics; stellar evolution; galactic chemical evolution; big bang nucleosynthesis
Condensed Matter Physics (Experiment)
Jayakumar Balakrishnan
Associate Professor
Joined: 2017
Research: Experimental condensed matter physics; 2D materials and perovskites
Soham Manni
Assistant Professor
Joined: 2018
Research: Experimental condensed matter physics; magnetism and superconductivity; material science - single crystal growth
Ajeesh M. Omanakuttan
Assistant Professor
Joined: 2024
Research: Experimental condensed matter physics; quantum materials under extreme conditions
Nirmal Roy
Assistant Professor
Joined: 2026
Research: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics; 2D Materials; Slidetronics; Interfacial Ferroelectricity; Correlated Materials; Nanomagnetism
Condensed Matter and Many-Body Physics (Theory)
Kusum Dhochak
Assistant Professor
Joined: 2019
Research: Strongly correlated electron systems; quantum spin liquids; topological phases; disorder
Uma Divakaran
Associate Professor
Joined: 2017
Research: Non-equilibrium dynamics; quantum phase transitions; quantum information
Amit Kumar Pal
Associate Professor
Joined: 2019
Research: Quantum information; open quantum systems; many-body quantum metrology; non-hermitian topology
High Energy Physics (Experiment)
High Energy Physics (Theory)
Akanksha Bhardwaj
Assistant Professor
Joined: 2025
Research: Higgs and top physics; effective field theory; beyond standard model physics; collider phenomenology
Quantum Science and Technologies (Theory)
Soft-Matter and Statistical Physics (Experiment)
Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi
Associate Professor
Joined: 2019
Research: Soft-matter physics; active matter systems; mechanobiology
Soft-Matter and Statistical Physics (Theory)
Manoj Gopalakrishnan
Professor
Joined: 2024
Research: Nonequilibrium statistical physics; stochastic processes; theoretical biophysics and soft matter
Vishwas Venkatesh
Assistant Professor
Joined: 2019
Research: Amorphous solids; supercooled liquids; active matter systems; rheology
String Theory
Prithvi Narayan P
Associate Professor
Joined: 2018
Research: Quantum field theory; string theory