Indian String Theorists
Research Institutes followed by Universities in alphabetical order
- Bose Institute, Kolkata
- SN Bose National Centre for
Basic Sciences, Kolkata
- Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai
- Alok Laddha
- K. Narayan
- Ronak Soni
- Amitabh Virmani
-
Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad
- Anirban Basu
- Rajesh Gopakumar (moved to ICTS)
- Dileep Jatkar
- Anshuman Maharana
- Satchitananda Naik (retired)
- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
- Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Justin David
- Chethan Krishnan
- Aninda Sinha
-
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
- Sujay Ashok
- Partha Mukhopadhyay
- Roji Pius
- S. Kalyana Rama (retired)
- Bala Sathiapalan (retired)
- Nemani Suryanarayana
- The Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar
- International Centre for Theoretical
Sciences, Bangalore
- Avinash Dhar
- Rajesh Gopakumar
- R. Loganayagam
- Raghu Mahajan
- Suvrat Raju
- Ashoke Sen
- Spenta Wadia
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata (=Calcutta)
- Arnab Kundu
- Shibaji Roy (retired)
- Ashish Shukla
- Harvendra Singh
-
Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Mumbai
- Abhijit Gadde
- Gautam Mandal
- Shiraz Minwalla
- Onkar Parrikar
- Sandeep Trivedi
- Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
- Ashoka University
- Asutosh College, Kolkata
- Banaras Hindu University
- BITS Pilani at
Hyderabadi
- Rahul Nigam
- Prashant Samantray
- Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra.
- Delhi University, Delhi
- IISER, Bhopal
- Nabamita Banerjee
- Suvankar Datta
- Arnab Rudra
- IISER, Mohali
- IISER, Pune
- IISER, Thiruvananthapuram
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Bhubaneswar
- Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati
- Abhishek Chowdhury
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi
- Sarthak Parikh
- Tarun Sharma
- Indian Institute of Technology(ISM), Dhanbad
- Mangesh Mandalik
- Binata Panda
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Gandhinagar
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Hyderabad
- Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
- Manavendra N. Mahato
- Mritunjay Kumar Verma
- Debajyoti Sarkar
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur
- Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya
- Kamal L. Panigrahi
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur
- Arjun Bagchi
- Diptarka Das
- Apratim Kaviraj
- Nilay Kundu
- Gautam Sengupta
- Tapobrata Sarkar
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras
- Suresh Govindarajan
- Prasanta K. Tripathy
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Mandi
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Palakkad
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Roorkee
- Aalok Misra
- Dibakar Roychowdhury
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Ropar
- Shankhadeep Chakraborty
- Rajesh Kumar Gupta
- Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Delhi
- Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
-
Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences,
Manipal University
- North Eastern Hill University NEHU
- NISER, Bhubaneswar
- Shamik Banerjee
- Sayantani Bhattacharya
- Chethan Gowdigere
- Jnan Maharana (Adjunct)
- Sudhakar Panda
- Yogesh Srivastava
- NIT Arunachal Pradesh
- NIT Jamshedour
- NIT Patna
- NIT Rourkela
- Ramakrishna Vidyamandir, Belur
- Sikkim University
- Union Christian College, Aluva,
Kerala
- Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
- Swapna Mahapatra (Retired)
- Shesansu Sekhar Pal
- Vidyasagar
University, Midnapore
- 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)