Education

• Ph.D., Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1996

• M.Sc. (Physics), University of Calcutta, 1990

• B.Sc. (Physics), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1988

Appointments

• Visiting Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai [1995-96]

• Fellow, Mehta Research Institute (now Harish-Chandra Research Institute), Allahabad [1996-98]

• Lecturer, Jadavpur University, Kolkata [1998-2003]

• Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Universitaet Dortmund [2002-03]

• Reader, University of Calcutta [2003-09]

• Professor, University of Calcutta [2009 onwards]

Fellowships and awards

• Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, India

• Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences

• Regular associateship of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

• Alexander von Humboldt fellowship

• APS-IUSSTF professorship award

• Distinguished investigator award of SERB

Research area 

• Theoretical Particle Physics, to be specific: B Physics, Higgs Physics, Search for Beyond-SM

Projects

    1. Search for New Laws of Physics in the Present and Future Experiments with Elementary Particles (September 2000 - March 2004), funded by BRNS, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India.

    2. Investigation of Some Outstanding Problems in the Higgs and Bottom Quark Sectors in the Standard Model of Particle Physics (April 2001 - March 2004), funded by UGC, Govt. of India. 

    3. Study of Bottom Quark Decays in the Standard Model and Study of Physics beyond the Standard Model (April 2005 - March 2008), funded by DST, Govt. of India.

    4. Particle Physics beyond the Standard Model: Preparing for Upcoming Colliders (April 2007 - March 2010), funded by BRNS, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India.

    5. Physics beyond the Standard Model during the First Years of the LHC (April 2009 – March 2012), funded by CSIR, Govt. of India.

    6. B Physics in the LHC Era (April 2013 - March 2016), funded by SERB-DST, Govt. of India.

    7. LHC and Physics beyond the Standard Model (October 2013 - March 2017), funded by CSIR, Govt. of India. 

    8. New Physics at the LHC and Elsewhere (March 2017 - March 2020), funded by SERB, Govt. of India.

    9. The Flavour Window to Physics beyond the Standard Model (February 2020 - August 2023), funded by SERB, Govt. of India.

    10. Effective Field Theory for Physics beyond the Standard Model (March 2020 - March 2023),  funded by SERB, Govt. of India.

    11.  The Enigmatic Scalars and Physics beyond the Standard Model (February 2024 - February 2027), funded by SERB, Govt. of India.

    12. The DRS Programme (Phases I and II) on Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, and Astrophysics (April 2009 - March 2019) [As one of the five participating members of the Department of Physics, Univ. of Calcutta].

Books

The Dazzling Dawn: Physics Department of Calcutta University (1916-36), with Gautam Gangopadhyay and Rajinder Singh, Shaker-Verlag, 2021

Sonajhora Dinguli (A history of the Physics Department of Calcutta University, pre-independence period, in Bengali), with Gautam Gangopadhyay, Joydhak Prakashan, 2022. 

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