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. Chanakya University, Bangalore
  18. Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra.
  19. Delhi University, Delhi
  20. IISER, Bhopal
  21. IISER, Mohali
  22. IISER, Pune
  23. IISER, Thiruvananthapuram
  24. Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar
  25. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  26. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  27. Indian Institute of Technology(ISM), Dhanbad
  28. Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
  29. Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
  30. Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
  31. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  32. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  33. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
  34. Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
  35. Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad
  36. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
  37. Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
  38. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
  39. Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
  40. Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal University
  41. North Eastern Hill University NEHU
  42. NISER, Bhubaneswar
  43. NIT Arunachal Pradesh
  44. NIT Jamshedour
  45. NIT Patna
  46. NIT Rourkela
  47. Ramakrishna Vidyamandir, Belur
  48. Sikkim University
  49. Union Christian College, Aluva, Kerala
  50. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
  51. Vidyasagar University, Midnapore
  52. 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:

  • Swapnamay Mondal joins BHU, Varanasi
  • Rickmoy Samanta joins BITS Pilani at Hyderabad
  • Soumangsu Chakraborty has joined IIT Kharagpur
  • Sayantani Bhattacharya moved to Edinburgh
  • Dileep Jatkar moves to Chanakya University, Bangalore

    (last updated: April 16, 2026)