Dripto Biswas, MSc
Phd Student in Theoretical Physics,
Department of Physics, University of Turin, Italy
"Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.
Hi, I'm Dripto, an MSc. graduate in Physics from NISER, Bhubaneswar, India. I am currently a PhD student at the Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Turin, Italy. My primary interests are in theoretical physics involving classical and quantum gravity, string theory and holography. Welcome to my personal website!
Education and Experience
About Me
I originally hail from the city of Kolkata, India. I attended the South Point School and South Point High School for 15 years in total, from primary to higher-secondary level !! After clearing the CBSE board exams, I decided to pursue a career in physics. I recently graduated from NISER, Bhubaneswar, under the aegis of the Dept. of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, having been supported by an annual stipend of INR 60k and a contingency grant of INR 20k as part of the DST-INSPIRE Fellowship, awarded by the Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. I have also recently joined a 3-year PhD program in Theoretical Physics (mainly string theory) at the University of Turin, Italy.
My current research interests mainly include, but are not limited to, string theory, quantum field theory, differential geometry and AdS/CFT holography. For more details about my projects, please visit the Projects page.
Education
PhD (2022-Present)
I have started working as a PhD candidate at the Dept. of Physics, University of Turin.
Integrated MSc. (2017-2022)
National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
I graduated from NISER in July 2022, with an MSc. degree in physics and a minor in mathematics. My overall CGPA at the end of 10 semesters (5 years) was 8.67/10.00 (86.7%).
Research experience
(2022-Present): Started working with Prof. Igor Pesando of the Dept. of Physics, University of Turin for my PhD.
(2022-Present): Worked with Prof. Anupam Mazumdar of the University of Groningen, to investigate photon-graviton interactions and related scattering problems.
(2021-22): Worked with Prof. Sayantani Bhattacharyya of the School of Physical Sciences, NISER on my MSc. thesis titled, "A Perturbative Approach to the Classical Soft Graviton Theorem in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime".
(2021): Worked with Prof. Subir Ghosh of the Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, ISI Kolkata. Investigated Quantum Backflow near the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole.
(2020): Worked with Prof. Amaresh K. Jaiswal of the School of Physical Sciences, NISER on my Bachelor's. thesis titled, "Triplet Pair Production in QED".
(2019-20): Worked with Prof. Subir Ghosh, of ISI Kolkata. Investigated the quantum mechanics of a particle on a torus knot.
Publications and Preprints
Dripto Biswas, Raffaele Marotta and Igor Pesando. "The Reggeon Vertex for DDF States". Arxiv Preprint:2410.17093[hep-th]
Dripto Biswas and Igor Pesando. "Framed DDF operators and the general solution to Virasoro constraints". Eur.Phys.J.C 84 (2024) 7, 657
Dripto Biswas, Sougato Bose, Anupam Mazumdar, Marko Toroš. "Gravitational Optomechanics: Photon-Matter Entanglement via Graviton Exchange". https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.064023 .
Dripto Biswas and Subir Ghosh. "Quantum backflow across a black hole horizon in a toy model approach". Phys. Rev. D 104, 104061 (Nov. 2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.104061
D. Biswas and S. Ghosh. "Quantum Mechanics of a Particle on a torus knot: Curvature and Torsion Effects ". EPL 132 10004 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/132/10004
Awards and qualifications
(2022-25): PhD Fellowship at the Dept. of Physics, University of Turin, Italy.
(2022): Joint CSIR-UGC NET - Qualified for Junior Research Fellowship (All India Rank-172).
(2021): GATE Physics - All India Rank-710 (95.94 percentile).
(2019): National Topper (Top 1%) in NGPE-2019.
(2017-22): DST-INSPIRE Fellowship.
Affiliations
(2022-Present) Graduate student associate of the String Theory Group at INFN - Sezione di Torino, Italy.
(2022-Present) PhD student at the Department of Physics, University of Turin, Italy.
(2017-22) Integrated MSc. student at the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India.