Dipankar Chakrabarti

Professor, PhD (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Specialization: High Energy Physics



Office Address:
Room No- FB 489
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208016

Contact Information:
Email: dipankar[at]iitk.ac.in
Tel: (91) 512-259-6696

Academic Background:

Did B.Sc(Phys) from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur (under University of Calcutta), M.Sc(Phys) from Rajabazar Science College, University of Calcutta and Ph.D from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. After postdoctoral stints at Florida State University, USA, Regensburg University, Germany (with Humboldt fellowship) and Swansea University, UK (with Marie-Curie fellowship), joined faculty of Physics Department, IIT Kanpur in December, 2008.

  • Ph.d: Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics [Jadavpur university], 2004
  • M.Sc, Physics, University of Calcutta, 1997
  • B.Sc, Physics, University of Calcutta, 1995.

 

Research Interests:

Dipankar is a theoretical high energy physicist mainly working on Quantum Chromodynamics(QCD). His group works on light front QCD and lattice gauge theory. In light front QCD, they are currently involved in the investigation of the internal structures of hadrons, particularly proton and in lattice gauge theory, the group is working on two different aspects, namely, (i) the minimally doubled fermion formalisms and (ii) application of Machine Learning(ML) in lattice simulations.

R. Vijaya

Professor, PhD (IIT Madras)

Specialization: Photonics



Office Address:
SL-217E,
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208016

Contact Information:
Email: rvijaya[at]iitk.ac.in
Tel: (91) 512-259-7552

Academic Background:

Vijaya completed her M.Sc and Ph.D degrees at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. After a short post-doctoral stint and 4 years of teaching at SSSIHL (Andhra Pradesh), she joined the Physics department of IIT Bombay in 1997. Subsequently, she left IIT Bombay and joined the Physics department of IIT Kanpur in June 2011.

Education

  • PhD, (IIT Madras)
  • M.Sc., (IIT Madras)
  • B.Sc., (Meenakshi College, Madras)

Research Interests:

For her doctoral thesis, Vijaya worked on experimental study of optical phase conjugation in the broad theme of nonlinear optics. While at IIT Bombay, she guided Ph.D students in topics related to fiber optics, nonlinear optics and photonic crystals, all in experimental domains. At IIT Kanpur, her research interests have widened to multiple topics in experimental Electromagnetics research, including nonlinear optics, fiber lasers, photonic crystals, integrated optics, nonlinear dynamics in optics, plasmonics, antennas, frequency-selective surfaces and metasurfaces, imaging and specialty optics. With the help of sponsored research funding, her laboratory hosts the necessary infrastructure for research in these topics. Apart from adapting specialized experimental techniques to their research work, her students also get trained in making any specialized samples required for their studies, characterizing them and conducting the simulations.

Anjan Kumar Gupta

Professor, PhD (University of Kentucky)

Specialization: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics



Office Address:
SL-217F,
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208016

Contact Information:
Email: anjankg[at]iitk.ac.in
Tel: (91) 512-259-7549

Academic Background:

  • PhD, Physics from University of Kentucky in 2001
  • M.Sc. (Integrated), Physics in 1995 from IIT Kanpur

 

Research Interests:

 

Aditya H. Kelkar

Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2009, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Specialization: Accelerator based atomic and molecular physics



Office Address:
NL-T-105
Central Nuclear Laboratory
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208016

Contact Information:
Email: akelkar[at]iitk.ac.in
Tel: (91) 512-259-7985
Tel: (91) 512-259-4010

Academic Background:

Dr. Aditya Kelkar received his Ph.D. from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India in year 2009. After his doctoral research, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany (2009 - 2011) and University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (2011 - 2013). Dr. Kelkar joined as a faculty of physics department, IIT Kanpur in June 2014.

Research Interests:

Experimental ion-atom, ion-molecule collision, Recoil ion momentum spectroscopy, Molecular fragmentation dynamics, Electron spectroscopy, Inner-shell process, Accelerator Physics, Instrumentation.

Taraknath Mandal

Assistant Professor, PhD (IISc Bangalore, 2015)

Specialization:Computational Soft Condensed Matter and Biological Physics



Office Address:
Room No – 101, Block C,
OLD SAC Building
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208016

Contact Information:
Email: taraknath[at]iitk.ac.in
Tel: (91) 512-259-2235

Academic Background:

Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur (Since March, 2021)
Postdoc, University of Fribourg (2020-2021)
Postdoc, Boston University (2018-2020)
Postdoc, University of Michigan (2015-2018)
PhD, IISc Bangalore (2009-2015)

Research Interests:

With the rapid evolution of computational power, molecular simulations are becoming increasingly powerful technique for studying various phenomena across several branches of science. We develop and apply multi-scale modeling methods to address various problems at the interface between materials science (mostly soft matters) and biophysics. Our current research interest includes development and applications of coarse-grained models for polymers, surfactants and other complex molecules with a particular focus to industrial applications. We also study protein-membrane interactions with atomistic and coarse-grained resolutions to understand various cellular processes.

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