Brief Curriculum Vitae

Office Address
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 495 - 3923
Fax: (617) 496-2545
Email : firstname_lastname@harvard.edu
WWW : http://sachdev.physics.harvard.edu
Date and Place of Birth : 2, Dec. 1961, New Delhi, India.

A profile and an interview in the Harvard Gazette.

Employment

• Professor of Physics at Harvard University, July 1, 2005 onwards.
• Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Yale University, July 1, 1995 to June 30, 2005.
• Associate Professor (tenured) of Physics and Applied Physics at Yale University, July 1, 1992 to June 30, 1995.
• Associate Professor (term) of Physics and Applied Physics at Yale University, July 1, 1989 to June 30, 1992.
• Assistant Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Yale University, July 1, 1987 to June 30, 1989.
• Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ from September 1, 1985 to August 31, 1987.

Education and Degrees

• High school (upto 10th grade) at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore, India.
• 11th grade at Kendriya Vidyalaya, ASC Center, Bangalore, India.
• Freshman year at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1978-79.
• S. B. (Bachelor of Science) in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1982.
• A. M. (Master of Arts) in Physics from Harvard University, June 1984.
• Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics from Harvard University, November 1985. Thesis title: Frustration and Order in Rapidly Cooled Metals.
• M. A. (honorary) from Yale University, 1995.

Honors

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2003.
• F. A. Matsen Endowed Regents Lecture on the Structure of Matter at the University of Texas at Austin, October 9, 2002.
• Fellow of the Americal Physical Society.
• Creativity Award from the National Science Foundation, 1998.
• "Colloquium Ehrenfestii", at the Lorentz Institute in Leiden, Holland, May 13, 1998.
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, February 1989.
• Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation, July 1988 - July 1993.
• LeRoy Apker Award, given by the American Physical Society for ‘outstanding achievement in physics by an undergraduate’, January 1983.
• Honorable Mention in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical competition, 1980.
• Second (all India) in the Joint Entrance Examination to the Indian Institutes of Technology, 1978.

Ph.D. Students and Postdocs

Research appointments

• Visiting professor at Harvard University, January-June 2001.
• Visiting professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, June 2000.
• Visiting professor at the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, July 1999.
• Visiting professor at Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, Nov-Dec, 1997.
• Visiting professor at Université de Paris VII, May-July 1993.
• Visiting Scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1987, 1988, 1989.
• Visiting Scientist at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, August 1988.