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Physics

Physics research at IISER currently covers the following areas:

Astrophysics
NMR and quantum information theory
Non-linear dynamics and chaos
Particle physics and quantum field theory
Physics of materials, semiconductor physics and nano systems
Statistical physics, condensed matter physics and biophysics

We intend to expand these existing research groups and also initiate research programmes in other areas of experimental and theoretical physics (including atomic & molecular physics, optics, mathematical physics, fluid dynamics, string theory and cosmology).

Enquiries about physics at IISER may be addressed to: Dr. Sudarshan Ananth ( ananth at iiserpune.ac.in )

Faculty Positions Centres of Excellence Experimental Facilities Ph.D. Students

Faculty Members

Name	Designation	Research
Ambika, G	Associate Professor	Chaos and nonlinear dynamics, synchronisation, Multifractal analysis
Ananth, Sudarshan	Ramanujan Fellow, DST Assistant Professor	Theoretical Particle Physics
Athreya, Ramana	Associate Professor	Active galaxies, galaxy cluster radio sources, high redshift Universe, imaging techniques, Biodiversity research and conservation, ornithology
Bhattacharyay, Arijit	Assistant Professor	Complex and dynamical systems, biophysics, pattern formation
Chatterji, Apratim	Assistant Professor	Statistical physics, soft condensed matter, phase transitions, microfluidics
Datta, Shouvik	Assistant Professor	Semiconductor physics, optical spectroscopy, electronic defects, nanostuctures, optoelectronics
Deshpande, Aparna	Assistant Professor	Atomic scale imaging & spectroscopy of graphene and other conducting surfaces with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), Manipulation of single atoms & molecules on conducting surfaces using STM
Gangal, Anil D	Visiting faculty	Nonlinear dynamics,Calculus on Fractrals
Ghosh, Prasenjit	Assistant Professor	Computational material science; DFT based techniques; heterogeneous catalysis; low-dimensional systems; charge transfer excitations
Kulkarni, Sulabha	UGC Professor	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Mahesh, T. S.	Assistant Professor	NMR spectroscopy, quantum information, optimal control and artificial intelligence
Nair, Sunil	Assistant Professor	Strongly correlated electron systems
Patil, Shivprasad	Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow Assistant Professor	Nanotechnology, atomic force microscopy and single molecular interactions
Rapol, Umakant D.	Assistant Professor	Atomic physics and precision spectroscopy, quantum optics and quantum information processing, biosensors
Santhanam, M. S.	Assistant Professor	Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and quantum chaos, statistical physics, complexity
Singh, Surjeet	Assistant Professor	Magnetism and superconductivity, single-crystal growth
Subramanian, Prasad	Assistant Professor	Plasma astrophysics, solar physics and black hole accretion
Vardarajan, Suneeta	Associate Professor	Mathematical physics,Relativity, Ricci flow, String theory
Adjunct Faculty
Dattagupta, Sushanta	Visva-Bharati University
Nityananda, Rajaram	NCRA-TIFR, Pune
Ogale, Satishchandra B	NCL, Pune
Padmanabhan, Thanu	IUCAA, Pune
Fellows
Chaturvedi, Harsh	Ramanujan Fellow	Nanomaterials, molecular self-assembly and spectroscopy, Nanotube assemblies
Khare, Avinash	Raja Ramanna Fellow	Theoretical particle physics, Non-linear dynamics, Supersymmetric quantum mechanics
Kumar, Pavan G V	Ramanujan Fellow	Raman Microscopy, Plasmonics, Classical Optics