IITK Physics Faculty

Will you please provide the list of faculty members and guest faculty members of Department of Physics , Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur ) ? Also provide the list of courses offered by Department of Physics , Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur .

Can you list me the Names, Contact Number and E Mail ID of the Faculty Member of Physics Department of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) -Kanpur?

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Physics Department of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) -Kanpur is engaged in research and teaching at the frontier areas of experimental and theoretical sciences.

These include biological physics, condensed matter physics, high energy and nuclear physics, cosmology, astro-physics, string theory, photonics, quantum optics, information theory, quantum computation, nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics.

The Names, Contact Number and E Mail ID of the Faculty Member of Physics Department of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Kanpur are as follows:

Faculty Members

Distinguished Honorary Professor

Ajay K. Sood, F.R.S.
Distinguished Honorary Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 1982)
Email: asood@physics.iisc.ernet.in
Ph: XXXX (O - FB 377)
Areas of Interest: Colloids, Surfactant based systems like lyotropic liquid crystals, micelles, membranes, vesicles, Gels; DNA. Dynamic light scattering, Rheology, Electric Field effects, Optical microscopy, SAXS and SANS, Coherent x-ray scattering, X-ray fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Density functional theory, computer simulations: Monte- Carlo, Brownian dynamics and Molecular dynamics.

Condensed Matter Experiment

Satyajit Banerjee
Professor (Ph.D., TIFR, 2000)
Email: satyajit@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7559 (O - SL108)
Areas of Interest: Superconductivity, Magneto-optics

Saikat Ghosh
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Cornell University, USA)
Email: gsaikat@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6971 (O -FB 475)
Areas of Interest: Quantum Optics

Anjan Kumar Gupta
Associate Professor (Ph.D., Kentucky, 2001)
Email: anjankg@iitk.ac.in
Ph:7549 (O - SL115)
Areas of Interest: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Superconductivity

Rajeev Gupta
Associate Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 2001)
Email: guptaraj@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6095(O - ACMS-203A)
Areas of Interest: Optical spectroscopy and phases

Zakir Hossain
Professor (Ph.D., TIFR, 1997)
Email: zakir@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7464 (O - SL306)
Areas of Interest: Superconductivity, Strongly-correlated electron systems

Krishnacharya
Associate Professor (Ph.D., Max-Planck Institute, Germany, 2007)
Email: kcharya@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7968 (O -SL-201)
Areas of Interest: Soft Matter Physics

Y. N. Mohapatra
Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 1989 )
Email: ynm@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7033/7802/7538 (O - SL105B)
Areas of Interest: Semiconductor Physics, Material Science

Soumik Mukhopadhyay
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Jadavpur University, India)
Email: soumikm@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6276 (O - SL217G)
Areas of Interest: Spintronics, Nanomagnetism, Physics of complex oxide materials

Shibabrata Nandi
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2009)
Email: snandi@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7947 (O - SL204)
Areas of Interest: Strongly-Correlated Electron Systems, Superconductivity, Magnetism, X-ray and Neutron scattering techniques

K. P. Rajeev
Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 1992)
Email: kpraj@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7929 (O - SL103)
Areas of Interest: Low Temperature Physics

Manas Khan
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 2011)
Email: mkhan@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6885 (FB 488)
Areas of Interest: Statistical Physics of Soft Matter

Condensed Matter Theory

Amit Agarwal
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., IISc, 2009)
Email: amitag@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6981 (O - FB386)
Areas of Interest: quantum many-body effects, low-dimensional quantum systems

Supratik Banerjee
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France)
Email: sbanerjee@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 2013 (O - FB388)
Areas of Interest: Plasma Physics, Focused ion beams from intense plasmas, Interaction of multi-element ion beams with matter, Physics of nano-scale systems

Sagar Chakraborty
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., SN Bose, 2008)
Email: sagarc@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6584 (O - FB487)
Areas of Interest: Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Debashish Chowdhury (HOD)
Professor (Ph.D., IIT Kanpur, 1984)
Email: debch@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7039 (O - FB385)
Areas of Interest: Statistical and Biological Physics

Amit Dutta
Professor (Ph.D., SINP, 2000)
Email: dutta@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7471 (O - FB484)
Areas of Interest: Quantum phase transitions

Tarun Kanti Ghosh
Associate Professor (Ph.D., IMSc, 2003)
Email: tkghosh@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7276 (O - FB352)
Areas of Interest: Utra-cold atomic gases, Nanoscopic physics

Manoj K. Harbola
Professor (Ph.D., CUNY, 1989)
Email: mkh@iitk.ac.in
Ph:7823 (O - FB488)
Areas of Interest: Atomic and Molecular Physics

Arijit Kundu
Assistant Professor (Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany, 2012)
Email: kundua@iitk.ac.in
Ph:7065 (O - FB373)
Areas of Interest: Equilibrium and non-equilibrium quantum transport. Topological systems in condensed matter

S. Anantha Ramakrishna
Professor (Ph.D., RRI, 2001)
Email: sar@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7449 (O - FB476)
Areas of Interest: Photonics & Waves in Random Media

Avinash Singh
Professor (Ph.D., Urbana-Champaign, 1987)
Email: avinas@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7047 (O - FB376)
Areas of Interest: Strongly-correlated Systems

V. Subrahmanyam
Associate Professor (Ph.D., TIFR, 1991)
Email: vmani@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7912 (O - FB475)
Areas of Interest: Strongly-correlated Systems, Quantum Computation

Mahendra K. Verma
Professor (Ph.D., Maryland, 1994)
Email: mkv@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7396 (O - FB472)
Areas of Interest: Nonlinear Physics, Magnetohydrodynamics

High Energy Physics

Arjun Bagchi
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., HRI, 2010)
Email: a.bagchi@gmail.com
Ph: 6928(O - FB374)
Areas of Interest: Theoretical High Energy Physics, String Theory

Kaushik Bhattacharya
Associate Professor (Ph.D., Jadavpur, 2005)
Email: kaushikb@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7306 (O - FB387)
Areas of Interest: Cosmology, Particle Physics

Dipankar Chakrabarti
Associate Professor (Ph.D., SINP, 2004)
Email: dipankar@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6696 (O - FB489)
Areas of Interest: Quantum Chromodynamics, Lattice Gauge Theory and Lightcone Field Theories

Joydeep Chakrabortty
Assistant Professor (Ph.D, HRI, 2011)
email: joydeep@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7083 (O - FB-372)
Areas of Interest: Particle Physics (Theory and Phenomenology); Main interest: Unification of fundamental forces, Supersymmetry, Supergravity

Pankaj Jain
Professor (Ph.D., Syracuse, 1988)
Email: pkjain@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7663 (O - FB474)
Areas of Interest: Cosmology, Particle Physics

Tapobrata Sarkar
Professor (Ph.D., IMSc, 2001)
Email: tapo@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7464 (O - FB476)
Areas of Interest: String Theory & Quantum Gravity

Gautam Sengupta
Professor (Ph.D., IOP,Bhubaneswar, 1992)
Email: sengupta@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7139 (O - FB473)
Areas of Interest: String Theory & Quantum Gravity

Laser Physics

Saikat Ghosh
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Cornell University, USA)
Email: gsaikat@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6971 (O - FB 475)
Areas of Interest: Quantum Optics

Anand Kumar Jha
Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Rochester, USA; 2009)
Email: akjha@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7014 (O - FB351)
Areas of Interest: Quantum-optics

Asima Pradhan
Professor (Ph.D., CUNY, 1991)
Email: asima@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7691/7971 (O - SL111)
Areas of Interest: Medical Applications of Lasers

Saurabh Mani Tripathi
Assistant Professor (PhD, IIT Delhi, 2010)
email: smt@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 6871 (O - FB377)
Areas of Interest: Fiber and Integrated Optics.

R. Vijaya
Professor (Ph.D., IIT Madras)
Email: rvijaya@iitk.ac.in
Ph:7552(O - SL217)
Areas of Interest: Fiber optics, Nonlinear optics and Photonic band gap structures

Harshawardhan Wanare
Professor (Ph.D., Hyderabad, 1998)
Email: hwanare@iitk.ac.in
Ph:7885/6080(O-SL-217D)
Areas of Interest: Non-linear optics, imaging

Ion Beam, Plasma and Nuclear Solid State

Sudeep Bhattacharjee
Professor (Ph.D., RIKEN, 1999)
Email: sudeepb@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7602 (O - CNF)
Areas of Interest: Plasma Physics, Focused ion beams from intense plasmas, Interaction of multi-element ion beams with matter, Physics of nano-scale systems

Aditya H. Kelkar
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. TIFR, 2009)
mail: akelkar@iitk.ac.in
Ph: 7985/7986 (O - NL-105)
Areas of Interest: Experimental atomic collision physics, heavy ions and electron collisions, accelerator physics