Group: Past and Present

CURRENT STUDENTS

Name:  Tanay Kibe

Research Areas:   String Theory, Gauge/gravity duality, Quantum Information theory and its applications to gravity and many body systems, Classical and quantum black holes, Topological phases of matter

Name:  Hareram Swain

Research Areas:   String Theory, Gauge/gravity duality and applications to strongly correlated systems. Classical and quantum black holes

EX-PHD STUDENTS

Name:  Alexander Soloviev (co-guided with Prof Anton Rebhan at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

Current Affiliation: Marie Curie Fellow at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (previously postdoc at Stony Brook University with Erwin Schrodinger Fellowship of FWF (Austrian Research Foundation))

Research Areas:   QCD matter, Gauge/gravity duality and applications, nonperturbative field theory, quantum many-body systems

Name:  Sukrut Mondkar 

Current Affiliation: Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj (Allahabad), India

Research Areas:   QCD matter, Gauge/gravity duality and applications, nonperturbative field theory,  classical and quantum black holes, quantum many-body systems, quantum information theory

Name: Toshali Mitra (co-supervised with V Ravindran, IMSc Chennai)

Current Affiliation: APCTP Pohang, Republic of Korea

Research Areas: QCD matter, Gauge/gravity duality and applications, nonperturbative field theory, nonequilibrium field theory, quantum many-body systems, quantum information theory

EX POSTDOCS

Name: Avik Banerjee

Current Affiliation:  University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece (previously at LPENS, Paris)

Research Areas: String theory, Gauge/gravity duality,  quantum information theory, classical and quantum black holes

Name: Pratik Roy

Current Affiliation:  University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Research Areas: String theory, Gauge/gravity duality,  quantum information theory, classical and quantum black holes

Name: Sutapa Samanta

Current Affiliation:  Western Washington University, Bellingham, US

Research Areas: String theory, physical mathematics, Gauge/gravity duality and applications, strongly correlated systems, quantum information theory

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