Postdoctoral Fellow (along with the prestigious Infosys fellowship): 31/07/2023 to present.
Institute: Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), H1 SIPCOT IT Park, Siruseri 603103, India.
Host: Professor K. Narayan
Ph.D. (Physics): December 2018 - October 2023
Institute/University: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, Uttarakhand, India
Ph.D. thesis title: "Aspects of Thermal QCD Phenomenology at Intermediate Gauge/'t Hooft Coupling from String/M-Theory, (HD) Gravity Islands, and Multiverse" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06042)
Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Aalok Misra
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M.Sc. (Physics): July 2016 - June 2018
Institute/University: Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India
Specialization: Nuclear and Particle Physics
M.Sc. thesis: "Strong CP Problem" under the supervision of Professor Sanjay Siwach.
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B.Sc. (Maths.): July 2013 - June 2016
Institute/University: CMP Degree College, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj 211002, Uttar Pradesh, India
Remark: In first year and second year, my subjects were Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. In third year, I studied Physics and Mathematics.
Awards, Fellowships and Grants
Gold Medal: "Prof. Ashwani Kumar Nigam Memorial Gold Medal for securing highest marks in Nuclear Physics special paper at the M.Sc. Physics Final Examination, 2018(at the end of IV-Sem)", awarded by Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
National Fellowship: Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) (27/12/2018 - 26/12/2020) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) (27/12/2020 - 30/06/2023), awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India.
Travel Grants: I have received the following travel grants.
i) Partial financial support from the Dean of Resources and Alumni Affairs (DORA), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India under the scheme for the students "Partial Support to Attend Good International Conferences" to attend and deliver a contributed talk titled "Deconfinement Phase Transition in Thermal QCD at Intermediate Coupling from M Theory" in a conference "27th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 2022)", held at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany for the period July 25 - 29, 2022.
ii) Partial financial support from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India under the scheme "International Travel Scheme (ITS)" to attend and present a poster titled "Information Paradox of Black Holes in Higher Derivative Theories of Gravity, Cosmological Islands, and Multiverse" in the event "Holography@25", held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics-South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), Sao Paulo, Brazil for the period June 05 - 17, 2023 (school: June 05 - 13, 2023, workshop: June 14 - 17, 2023).
Detailed CV is available here.