Research Groups

In order to develop your taste and to recognize your true interests, it is important to become familiar with the current and active research areas. Furthermore, you should be familiar with the groups/institutes where these activities are taking place. Interested students can also use the information given in this section to directly approach these faculties/groups for summer projects or laboratory visits.

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Cosmology

• Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan, IUCAA Pune

• Dr. L. Sriramkumar, IIT Madras, Chennai

• Prof. Varun Sahni, IUCAA, Pune

• Shankaranarayanan S, IIT Bombay, Mumbai

• Prof. Shiv Sethi, RRI, Bengaluru

• Dr. Rajeev Kumar Jain, IISc, Bengaluru

• Dr. Aseem Paranjape, IUCAA, Pune

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Gravitational Wave Astrophysics

• Prof. K G Arun, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai

• Dr. Parameswaran Ajith, ICTS - Astrophysical Relativity Group, Bangalore

• Dr. Chandra Kant Mishra, IIT Madras, Chennai

• Prof. Archana Pai, IIT Bombay, Mumbai

• Prof. Anand Sen Gupta, IIT Gandhinagar

• Dr. Sanjit Mitra, IUCAA, Pune

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Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Processing

Experimental Groups

• Prof. R. P. Singh, Dr. Goutam Samanta, Prof. Bijaya Sahoo, Dr. Rajesh Kushawaha, and Dr. Naveen Chauhan, Quantum Science and Technology Program, PRL , Ahmedabad

• Prof. T.S. Mahesh, Exploring the Quantum via Magnetic Resonance, IISER Pune

• Dr. Anand K. Jha, Quantum Optics and Entanglement Group, IIT Kanpur

• Dr. Kavita Dorai, NMR Spectroscopy Research Group, IISER Mohali

• Prof. Urbasi Sinha, Light and Matter Physics (LAMP), RRI, Bangalore

• Dr. Saikat Ghosh, Quantum Measurement Lab, IIT Kanpur

• Dr. Rajamani Vijayaraghavan, Quantum Measurement and Control Laboratory (QuMaC), TIFR, Mumbai

• Dr. Umakant Rapol, Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics Lab, IISER Pune

• Dr. Kasturi Saha, Photonics and Quantum Enabled Sensing Technology Laboratory, IIT Bombay, Mumbai

• Prof. Anil Shaji, IISER Thiruvananthapuram

Theory Groups

• Prof. Arun K. Pati, Prof. Aditi Sen De, and Prof. Ujjwal Sen, Quantum Information and Computation Group, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj

• Prof. Anirban Pathak, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida

• Dr. Sai Vinjanampathy, Quantum Information & Technologies @ IITB, IIT Bombay, Mumbai

• Dr. A R Ushadevi, Bangalore University, Bengaluru

• Prof. Sibasish Ghosh, IMSc, Chennai

• Prof. Arul Lakshminarayan, IIT Madras, Chennai

• Dr. Sudheesh Chethil, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram

• Prof. Guruprasad Kar, ISI, Kolkata

• Archan Majumdar, SNBNCBS, Kolkata

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Material Sciences - Photovoltaics

• Dr. Praveen C Ramamurthy, Organic NanoElectronics Group, IISc Bangalore

• Dr. Satish A Patil, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, IISc Bangalore

• Dr. Manoj A G Namboothiry, Molecular Opto-Bio-Electronics Lab (MOBEL), IISER Thiruvananthapuram

• Prof. K.S. Narayan, Molecular Electronics Lab, JNCASR, Bangalore

• Dr. Narayanan Unni K N, Photosciences and Photonics Group, CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram

• Dr. Suresh Chand, Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi

• Prof. S. Sundar Kumar Iyer, IIT Kanpur

• Prof. Yashowanta N. Mohapatra, IIT Kanpur

• Dr.Satishchandra B. Ogale, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory,Pune

• Prof. Pradeep Nair, IRCC, IIT Bombay

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Magnetism and Superconductivity

• Prof. Avinash V. Mahajan, Quantum Magnetism Lab, IIT Bombay

• E. V. Sampathkumaran, TIFR, Mumbai

• Prof. Ramesh Chandra Nath, IISER Thiruvananthapuram

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