Brief Curriculum Vitae

Office Address
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 495 - 3923
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Citizen of USA and 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.

Significant Research Accomplishments

Publications

• Citations and publications on Google Scholar.
• Highly ranked in Diffusion of scientific credits and the ranking of scientists (F. Radicchi, S. Fortunato, B. Markines, and A. Vespignani, Physical Review E 80, 056103 (2009)).

Honors

• Lorentz Chair, Instituut-Lorentz, 2012
• Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2003.
• Fellow of the American Physical Society.
• 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.

Named and plenary lectures

• Bethe Colloquium, Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Bonn, January 14, 2013.
• Lorentz Chair, Instituut-Lorentz, May 7, 14, 21, June 4, 2012.
• Arnold Sommerfeld Lectures, University of Munich, January 31 - February 3, 2012.
• HRI-Girdharilal Mehta Lecture, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, January 13, 2012.
• Rapporteur at the 25th Solvay Conference on Physics - The Theory of the Quantum World, Brussels, October 19-22, 2011.
• Plenary talk at the International Conference on Strong Correlated Electron Systems, August 30, 2011.
• Marc Kac Memorial Lectures, Los Alamos National Laboratory, May 3-5, 2011.
• Moshe Flato Lectures, Ben Gurion University, March 10, 2011.
• Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Lectures, International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, Dec 6-8, 2010
• Plenary talk at the 24th International Conference on Statistical Physics, Cairns, Australia, July 2010.
• Niels Bohr Lecture, Niels Bohr Institute, May 5, 2010
• Colloquium Pierre et Marie Curie, University of Paris, May 3, 2010
• De Sitter Lecture Series in Theoretical Physics 2009, University of Groningen, November 2009
• Solvay colloquium, International Solvay Institutes, Brussels, October 2009
• Rapporteur at the 24th Solvay Conference on Physics, Quantum Theory of Condensed Matter, Brussels, Oct 11-13, 2008.
• Plenary talk at the 25th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Amsterdam, August 2008
• Distinguished Lecture Series, Technion, Israel, March 2007.
• Plenary talk at the International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 2004
• F. A. Matsen Endowed Regents Lecture on the Structure of Matter at the University of Texas at Austin, October 2002.
• "Colloquium Ehrenfestii", at the Lorentz Institute in Leiden, Holland, May 1998.
• Plenary talk at the 19th International Conference on Statistical Physics, Xiamen, August 1995.

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.