Centre for Strings, Gravitation and Cosmology

People

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Faculty

	Raghuveer Garani
	Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

	Samir Choudhuri
	Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

	Chandra Kant Mishra
	Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

	Dawood A. Kothawala
	Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

	Prasanta Kumar Tripathy
	Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

	Suresh Govindarajan
	Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

	L. Sriramkumar
	Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Postdoctoral fellows

	Nilanjandev Bhaumik
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Early universe cosmology, Inflation, Primordial black holes, Stochastic gravitational wave background

	Subhajit Barman
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Gravitation, Quantum field theory in curved spacetime, Relativistic Quantum Information

	Md Riajul Haque
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Early Universe Cosmology

	Soham Bhattacharyya
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Post-Newtonian theory, Modified theories of gravity

Graduate students

	Anshul Mishra
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: String Theory

	Ankit Anand
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Black hole Information Paradox

	Suvashis Maity
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Early Universe Cosmology, Cosmic Inflation, Primordial Black Hole, Stochastic Gravitational Waves, Primordial non-Gaussianity

	Tanay Kibe
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: 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

	Hareram Swain
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: String Theory, Gauge/gravity duality and applications to strongly correlated systems. Classical and quantum black holes

	Kaushik Paul
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Gravitational wave astrophysics, post-Newtonian theory, Numerical Relativity

	M Laxman
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Gravitational Waves, post-Newtonian Theory, Black Hole Perturbation Theory/Self-force Theory

	A P Sreehari
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: AdS/CFT correspondence, Quantum information

	Akhila S
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Theoretical High Energy Physics: Blackhole entropy counting

	Alipriyo Hoory
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Constructing machine learning approaches to constrain models of inflation, Early universe cosmology

	Shouvik Sarkar
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: 21 cm cosmology and astrophysics

	Rimo Das
	Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Research Area: Gravitational Wave Astrophysics.

Former students and current positions

Name	Current Position
Divyajyoti	Postdoctoral Fellow, Cardiff University, UK
Sutapa Samanta	Postdoctoral Fellow, Western Washington University, Bellingham, US
Sukrut Mondkar	Postdoctoral Fellow, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, India
Alexander Soloviev	Marie Curie Fellow, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and University of Edinburgh, UK
Toshali Mitra	Postdoctoral Fellow, APCTP Pohang, Republic of Korea
Debika Chowdhury	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Swansea University, Wales, UK
Rathul Nath Raveendran	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea
V. Sreenath	Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
D. Jaffino Stargen	Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali

Former postdoctoral fellows and current positions

Name	Current Position
Avik Banerjee	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece
Pratik Roy	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Sukannya Bhattacharya	Postdoctoral Fellow
Sampurn Anand	Assistant Professor, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur
Nirmalya Kajuri	Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
Rahul Kothari	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Debottam Nandi	Inspire Faculty, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi
Krishna Mohan Parattu	Postdoctoral Fellow
Pankaj Saha	Postdoctoral Fellow