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. Christ University, Bangalore
  19. Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra.
  20. Delhi University, Delhi
  21. IISER, Bhopal
  22. IISER, Mohali
  23. IISER, Pune
  24. IISER, Thiruvananthapuram
  25. Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar
  26. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  27. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  28. Indian Institute of Technology(ISM), Dhanbad
  29. Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
  30. Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
  31. Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
  32. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  33. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  34. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
  35. Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
  36. Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad
  37. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
  38. Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar
  39. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
  40. Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
  41. Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal University
  42. North Eastern Hill University NEHU
  43. NISER, Bhubaneswar
  44. NIT Arunachal Pradesh
  45. NIT Jamshedour
  46. NIT Patna
  47. NIT Rourkela
  48. Ramakrishna Vidyamandir, Belur
  49. Sikkim University
  50. Union Christian College, Aluva, Kerala
  51. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
  52. Vidyasagar University, Midnapore
  53. 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
  • Souvik Banerjee joins Christ University, Bangalore

    (last updated: September 15, 2026)