Indian String Theorists

Research Institutes followed by Universities in alphabetical order

  1. Bose Institute, Kolkata
  2. SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
  3. Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai
  4. Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad
  5. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
  6. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  7. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
  8. The Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar
  9. International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore
  10. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata (=Calcutta)
  11. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
  12. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
  13. Ashoka University
  14. Asutosh College, Kolkata
  15. Banaras Hindu University
  16. BITS Pilani at Hyderabadi
  17. Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra.
  18. Delhi University, Delhi
  19. IISER, Bhopal
  20. IISER, Mohali
  21. IISER, Pune
  22. IISER, Thiruvananthapuram
  23. Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar
  24. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  25. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  26. Indian Institute of Technology(ISM), Dhanbad
  27. Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
  28. Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
  29. Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
  30. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  31. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  32. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
  33. Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
  34. Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad
  35. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
  36. Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
  37. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
  38. Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
  39. Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal University
  40. North Eastern Hill University NEHU
  41. NISER, Bhubaneswar
  42. NIT Arunachal Pradesh
  43. NIT Jamshedour
  44. NIT Patna
  45. NIT Rourkela
  46. Ramakrishna Vidyamandir, Belur
  47. Sikkim University
  48. Union Christian College, Aluva, Kerala
  49. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
  50. Vidyasagar University, Midnapore
  51. Vivekananda University, Kolkata
Faculty Shuffle and other info

Please contact me (Suresh Govindarajan) if there any names missing from this list. The only conditions that one has to satisfy to be in this list are:
(i) hold a permanent position and (ii) consider one-self to be a string theorist:-)
Faculty Shuffle:

  • Mritunjay Kumar Verma joins IIT, Indore
  • Raghu Mahajan joins ICTS, Bengaluru
  • Ronak Soni joins CMI
  • Ashish Shukla joins SINP
  • Swarnendu Sarkar moves to Vidyasagar University, Midnapore
  • Ayan Mukhopadhyay moves to Instituto de Fisica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile
    (last updated: July 23, 2025)