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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.
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