Students and Postdocs

Doctoral Students

  1. Sanatan Digal, joined for Ph.D.- Dec.’94, finished Ph.D. – June’99.
    • Thesis title : Phase transitions in quark-gluon plasma and systems with explicit symmetry breaking.
    • Present position: Faculty at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai
  2. Supratim Sengupta, joined for Ph.D.- July’95, finished Ph.D. May’2000.
    • Thesis title: Formation of topological defects and other consequences of phase transitions in field theories.
    • Present position: Faculty at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata
  3. Rajarshi Ray, joined for Ph.D.: July’97, finished Ph.D. – Aug. 2002.
    • Thesis title: Studies of phase transition dynamics: Formation of disoriented chiral condensates and topological defects.
    • Present position: Faculty at Bose Institute, Kolkata
  4. Soma Sanyal, joined for Ph.D.: July’98, finished Ph.D. – June 2003.
    • Thesis title: Density inhomogeneities and phase transitions in the universe and in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
    • Present position: Faculty at the Physics Dept. Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
  5. Biswanath Layek, joined for Ph.D.: July 2000, finished Ph.D. – Sept. 2005.
    • Thesis title: Effect of density fluctuation induced phase transitions on baryon number distribution.
    • Present position: Faculty at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
  6. Ananta P. Mishra, joined for Ph.D.: July 2003, finished Ph.D. – Aug. 2009
    • Thesis title: Z(3) Interfaces, Strings, and their consequences in quark-gluon plasma.
    • Last position: Post doctoral fellow, NISER, Bhubaneswar (until 2019).
  7. Ranjita K. Mohapatra, joined for Ph.D. : July 2006. Finished Ph.D.: March 2013
    • Thesis title: Investigating formation and evolution of Z(3) walls and flow anisotropies in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
    • Present position: Faculty at Dept. of Physics, Rajdhani College, Bhubaneswar.
  8. P.S. Saumia, joined for Ph.D. : July 2006. Finished Ph.D.: June 2013
    • Thesis title: Flow Anisotropies in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, CMBR Anisotropies and their Interconnections.
    • Present position: Consultant, biomedical data analysis, at LifeSignals India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, (previous position: Senior Scientific Researcher at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia).
  9. Abhishek Atreya, joined for Ph.D. : July 2008. Finished Ph.D. March 2015
    • Thesis title: Spontaneous CP violation in quark scattering from QCD Z(3) domains and its cosmological implications.
    • Present position: Quantitative Analyst at Deutsche Bank, Mumbai.
  10. Partha Bagchi, joined for Ph.D. : July 2010. Finished Ph.D. Dec. 2015.
    • Thesis title: Time-Dependent Quark-Antiquark Potential and Quarkonia Suppression in Heavy-Ion Collisions.
    • Present position: Post doctoral fellow, NISER, Bhubaneswar.
  11. Srikumar Sengupta, joined for Ph.D. Apr. 2014 (transferred from different field), finished Ph.D. Apr. 2016.
    • Thesis title: Aspects of QCD Phase Transition with Reaction-Diffusion Equations.
    • Present position: Faculty at the Armenian College Philanthropic Academy (ACPA), Kolkata.
  12. Arpan Das, joined for Ph.D. : July 2012. Finished Ph.D. Oct. 2017.
    • Thesis title: Consequences of phase transition dynamics in neutrons star and in inflation.
    • Present position: Faculty at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
  13. Shreyansh Shankar Dave, joined for Ph.D.: July 2013. Finished Ph.D. Jan.2019.
    • Thesis Title: Superfluid Transitions, Topological Vortices, and Magneto-hydrodynamics for Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions.
    • Present position: Post doctoral fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.

Post Doctoral Fellows

  1. Dr. Binoy Patra, Jan. 1998 – Dec. 1999
    • Present position: Faculty in Physics Dept. I.I.T. Roorkee, Uttarakhand
  2. Dr. V. Sunil Kumar, Feb. 2003 – March 2005
    • Present position: Faculty in Physics Dept. BITS- Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa.
  3. Dr. Anjishnu Sarkar, Oct. 2008 – Aug. 2010
    • Present position: Faculty in Physics Dept., The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
  4. Dr. Sudhanwa Patra, Sept. 2011 – Sept. 2013
    • Present position: Faculty in Physics Dept., IIT Bhilai, Raipur
  5. Dr. Nirupam Dutta, March 2015 – Aug. 2015
    • Last Academic position (until 2021): Faculty in School Of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
  6. Dr. Pranati Rath, May 2015 – Aug. 2016
    • Present position: Faculty in Physics Dept., Khallikote Autonomour College, Berhampur, Odisha
  7. Dr. Somnath De, July 2014 – Sept. 2016
    • Present position: Faculty in Physics Dept., Pingla College, West Midnapore, WB
  8. Dr. Oindrila Ganguly, Jan. 2017 – May 2017; Aug. 2017 – April 2018
    • Present position: Post Doctoral Fellow, IMSc, Chennai.
  9. Dr. Minati Biswal, Jan. 2018 – Jan. 2020
    • Present position: Intern Consutant at LifeSignals India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, (previous position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Physics Dept., IISER Mohali, Mohali, Punjab).

Summer students guidance

Guided summer students regularly (occasionally at other times as well) from B.Sc. or M.Sc. background for summer projects. These are learning projects as well as small research projects (some of which resulted in publications). These include IOP summer visitor program students as well as Science Academy students.