Arul Lakshminarayan

• Schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya CLRI , Adyar, Chennai (1984).
• B. Tech. in Mechanical Engg. at IIT Madras, Chennai (1984-1988).
• Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics at State University of New York at Stony Brook (1988-1993). (Ph. D. advisor was Professor Nandor Balazs. To know a little more of this remarkable person, read his Obituary downloaded from Sir Michael Berry's website.)

• Postdoctoral Fellow at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad (1993-1996)
• Scientist and Reader at the  Theoretical Physics Division of the  Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad (1996-2003).

•   Professor at the Department of Physics, IIT Madras
  

• Department of Physics, Washington State University, Pullman (the Steven Tomsovic research group (Visiting Asst. Prof.)
  
• Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur (Visiting Faculty)
  
• Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems at Dresden, Germany. (Visiting Scientist)