Department of Physics

Faculty

Listed below, in alphabetical order, are members of the faculty of the Department, the location of their offices, their contact e-mail addresses and extension phone numbers.

HSB stands for the Humanities and Sciences Block, where most of the offices of the faculty are located. MSB and MSRC are the Mechanical Sciences Block and Material Science Research Centre, both of which are adjacent to the HSB.

If you are dialling from outside IIT Madras, please prefix 2257 to reach the office phone numbers.

Clicking on the names of the faculty leads to pages containing their essential academic profile. The pages also contain links to their personal pages, if avialable.

S.No	Name	Designation	Research Field	Contact
S.No	Name	Designation	Research Field	E-Mail	Phone	Office
01	Aravind G.	Assistant Professor	Photoelectron spectroscopy, Photoabsorption studies on Biomolecules and Reactions involving trapped ions to study the constituents and dynamics of the Inter-Stellar Medium (ISM)	aravind	4863	HSB 232
02	Balakrishnan V.	Professor	Dynamical Systems , Quantum Dynamics and Stochastics	vbalki	4853	HSB 315
03	Bisht, P.B	Professor	Ultrafast Lasers and Fluorescence Microscopy laboratory, Fluroscence upconversion, Ultrafast laser spectroscopy and Fluorescence Microscopy	prem	4866	HSB 307
04	Dawood Kothawala	Assistant Professor	Semiclassical Gravity, Quantum Mechanics of Black Holes, QFT with Minimal Length Scale	dawood	4848	HSB 224D
05	Deshmukh P. C.	Professor	Atomic and Molecular Physics Photoabsoption Processes in Free/Confined atoms, molecules and ions	pcd	4855	HSB 232
06	Dillip K. Satapathy	Assistant Professor	Complex fluids in confinement, physics of complex oxide heterostructures, x-ray and neutron scattering characterization of materials	dks	4899	HSB 119A
07	Ganesan A. R.	Associate Professor	Adaptive Optics, Vision Science, Laser Instrumentation, Interferometry, Holography and Optical metrology	arg	4891	MSB 350
08	Gopalakrishnan, Manoj	Assistant Professor	Theoretical Biophysics, Stochastic Processes, Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics	manoj	4894	HSB 224
09	Govindarajan, Suresh	Professor	Dynamical Systems, Statistical Physics and Field Theory Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, Black Holes	suresh	4867	HSB315A
10	Gupte N. M.	Professor	Non-linear dynamics, Chaos, Statistical physics	gupte	4861	HSB 312
11	Hariharan K.	Professor	Solidstate Ionics / Electronics	khariharan	4856	HSB 101
12	Harish Kumar N.	Associate Professor	Superconductivity, Novel magnetic materials, Instrumentation and automation	harish	4879	HSB 213A
13	Jain M. K.	Assistant Professor	Semiconductor Physics Semiconductor, Photovoltaics, Chemical Sensors	mkj	4880	HSB213A
14	Kasiviswanathan S.	Professor	Interface and Surface Science of Thin Films, Tunneling Spectroscopy, Surface Plasmon Resonance and SPR Microscopy, DMS and MCD, DSP based Physical Measurements.	kasi	4868	HSB 124
15	Kothiyal M. P.	Professor	Applied Optics, Interferometry, Optical Instrumentation and testing	kothiyal	4857	HSB 323
16	Krishnamurthy C. V.	Associate Professor	Modeling and simulation of electromagnetic, acoustic, elastic wave propagation and scattering; Nonlinear ultrasonic wave propagation in liquids and solids; Modeling and simulation of heat transport in micro- and nanoscale structures; Infrared thermography; Quantitative imaging schemes; Tomography; Material characterization	cvkmind	4864	HSB 202B
17	Lakshmi Bala S.	Professor	Classical and quantum dynamical systems, Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, Chaos in gauge theories, Quantum information theory	slbala	4869	HSB 309A
18	Lakshminarayan, Arul	Professor	Quantum Chaos, Quantum Information theory, Chaos and Transport, Mathematical Physics	arul	4878	HSB 215
19	Libby, James	Associate Professor	Experimental particle physics, CP-violation and flavour physics	libby	4885	HSB 116 A
20	Manu Jaiswal	Assistant Professor	Condensed Matter Physics	manu_jaiswal	4893	HSB 224C
21	Markandeyulu G.	Professor	Magnetism and magnetic materials	mark	4870	HSB 103
22	Murugavel P.	Assistant Professor	Physics of dielectric, ferroelectric and magnetoelectric oxide materials in Bulk, Film and Nanocrystalline forms	muruga	4897	HSB 222
23	Murthy V. R. K.	Professor	Microwave physics and materials	vrkm	4859	HSB 223A
24	Nanda, Ranjit Kumar	Assistant Professor	Condensed Matter Theory (Electronic Structure)	nandab	4887	HSB 224E
25	Narayanan, Rajesh	Associate Professor	Condensed Matter Theory: Quantum Field Theories applied to condensed matter systems, Quantum Phase Transitions, Strong disorder physics	rnarayanan	4858	HSB 201
26	Natarajan T. S.	Professor	Conducting polymers, Molecular electronics, Instrumentation	tsn	4860	HSB 328C
27	Nirmala R.	Assistant Professor	Rare earth intermetallics	nirmala	4888	HSB 117
28	Padhan, Prahallad	Assistant Professor	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics	padhan	4884	HSB 213
29	Pattabiraman M.	Assistant Professor	Experimental Atomic Physics, Quantum Optics and Magnetometry	pattu	4890	HSB 114
30	Prafulla Kumar Behera	Associate Professor	Experimental particle physics	behera	4898	HSB 111A
31	Ramachandrao Rao M. S.	Professor	Electronic and Magnetic Materials: Oxide Electronics, Thin films and Nanostructures, ZnO nanostructures for light emission, nanocrystalline diamond for mechanical and electronic applications, Magnetic nanoparticles, Nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications, Magnetoelectric coupling in oxides, Magnetotransport, and SPINTRONICS.	msrrao	4872	MSRC 101
32	Ramaprabhu S.	Professor	Synthesis of CNTs, CNCs, Graphene, Nano Composites, Metal Oxide Nano Structures, Alloys and their Applications inHydrogen Production, Hydrogen storage, hydrogen sensors,Chemical and bio sensors, PEMFC, Micro Fuel Cells, DMFC, DEFC, Alkaline fuel cells, Li-ion battery, Supercapacitors,Field emission, photovoltaic, Nano Fluids, Switchable Mirrors and Optical Shutters, Filter for Water purification, Carbon dioxide Capture and Bio Medical Applications.	ramp	4862	HSB 111
33	Sankaranarayanan V.	Professor	Low Temperature Physics, Super Conductivity	vsn	4873	HSB 114
34	Santhosh P. N.	Associate Professor	Magnetism in Condensed Matter Physics, Electroceramics, Magnetic Materials, Low Temperature Characterization of Advanced Materials	santhosh	4882	HSB 110
35	Satyanarayana M. V.	Professor	Quantum optics, Laser physics, Photonics	mvs	4874	HSB 310C
36	Sethupathi K.	Professor	Low Temperature Physics, Superconductivity	ksethu	4875	HSB 110
37	Simha, Aditi	Assistant Professor	Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics:Heat Conduction, Drifting Flux Lattices, Sedimental suspensions, Sheared Complex Fluids, 'Active' Matter, Transition rates in some nonequilibrium steady states.	aditi	4881	HSB 218A
38	Somnath Chanda Roy	Assistant Professor	Thin Films, Materials Science, TiO2 nanotubes and Photocatalysis	somnath	4886	HSB 119
39	Srinivas V.	Professor	Experimental condensed Matter Physics, Low temperature Electronic properties, Magnetic Properties of intermetalic alloys and Low dimensional and disordered materials.	veeturi	4896	HSB 111A
40	Sriramkumar L .	Associate Professor	Semi-classical Gravity and Cosmology	sriram	4854	HSB 202
41	Subramanian V.	Associate Professor	Microwave and Dielectrics, Semiconductors	manianvs	4883	HSB 222
42	Subrahmanyam A.	Professor	Semiconductor devices, Photovoltaics	manu	4865	HSB 224A
43	Sudakar Chandran	Assistant Professor	Oxides and Nitrides, Magnetic materials, Spectroscopic techniques (such as Raman, XPS, UV-Vis, IR), Defect-structure property correlations, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Materials for memory and energy applications	csudakar	4895	HSB 224
44	Sunethra Ramanan	Assistant Professor	Nuclear Structure, Renormalization Group Approaches, Cold atomic gases in traps and lattices, Computational Many-Body Physics	suna	4871	HSB 119A
45	Sunil Kumar P. B.	Professor	Complex Fluids, Biological Physics and Statistical Mechanics	sunil	4876	HSB 213
46	Tripathy, Prasanta	Assistant Professor	String Theory	prasanta	4889	HSB 202
47	Vijayan C.	Professor	Non-linear Optics, Optical Processes and Materials such as semiconductor Quantum dots (nanostructures), Porphyrins and dyes	cvijayan	4877	HSB 224B