Sayan Choudhury

Hi! Welcome to my website!

I am a `Reader' at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), where my research group works on the theory of quantum and ultracold matter. My current research focuses primarily in two directions: (a) Driven and non-equilibrium many-body systems, and (b) Novel phases of matter in synthetic quantum systems. For more information, please check out the research page.

Prior to this, I spent Postdoctoral stints at the University of Pittsburgh (working with Prof. Vincent Liu) and Purdue University. Before that, I spent 6 wonderful years in the beautiful college town of Ithaca, where I obtained my PhD from Cornell University in 2017. I wrote my thesis on the properties of Bose-Einstein condensates loaded in low dimensional optical lattices, under the tutelage of the wonderful Prof. Erich Mueller. During the course of my PhD,  I also collaborated with Prof. Jim Sethna and Prof. Kaden Hazzard. In an even more ancient era, I did my undergraduate studies at IISER, Kolkata, where I explored on an eclectic array of topics including Quantum computing, Quantum Darwinism, and Luttinger liquids.

I am always on the lookout for motivated PhD students and postdocs. Interested candidates may write to me at sayanchoudhury@hri.res.in