About Me

I grew up in Siliguri, West Bengal, India, a picturesque city in the foothills of the Himalayas, where I completed my schooling before moving to Kolkata, West Bengal, India, to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Physics at Jadavpur University. I then joined the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Prayagraj, India, for an Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D., where I began my research in quantum information theory.

My academic journey subsequently took me to Europe, first as a postdoctoral researcher at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and later at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. During this period, my research interests gradually expanded from quantum information theory to quantum many-body physics and condensed matter theory. In 2023, after nearly five years abroad, I returned to India to join the Indian Institute of Technology Indore as an Assistant Professor, before moving to the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2024, where I currently lead the Synthetic Quantum Systems (SQS) research group at the Department of Physics.

Experience

2024 - Till date: Assistant Professor, The Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
2023 - 2024: Assistant Professor, The Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India.
2021 - 2023: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics (CMSP) Section, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
2018 - 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Department of Atomic Optics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.

Education

2018: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Physics, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India. Supervisor: Prof. Aditi Sen(De).
2014: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Physics, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, India.
2012: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Honours in Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Honors and Awards

2025: Awarded the ICTP Prize for the contributions on quantum many-body physics along with Dr. Sthitadhi Roy, TIFR-ICTS, Bengaluru, India.
2025: Awarded the Prime Minister’s Early Career Research Grant (PMECRG) by Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Govt. of India. Project valuation: INR 5,396,642 /-.
2021: Selected for ICTP/UNESCO research fellowship agreement (RFA).
2018: Selected for postdoctoral position under QuantERA QTFLAG project.
2018: Awarded the HRI-Infosys Prize from Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, India for Excellent research in Physics.
2014: Ranked 1st at Harish-Chandra Research Institute in Master of Science (M.Sc.).
2012: Ranked 5th at Jadavpur University in Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.).
2009: Ranked 1st in the Darjeeling district and ranked 6th in West Bengal in the Higher-Secondary Examination (WBCHSE board).
2007: Ranked 3rd in the Darjeeling district and under 20th in West Bengal in the Madhyamik (Secondary) Examination (WBBSE board).

Reviewer Activities

I am a regular referee for the following international scientific journals:

Physical Review A
Physical Review B
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review X
Physical Review X Quantum
Annals of Physics (N.Y.)
Annalen der Physik (Berlin)
Quantum Information Processing
SciPost Physics

Recent reviewer activities are registered on the Web of Science.

Selected Talks

“Emergence in a classical frustrated system: Symmetry, order, and deconfined classical criticality”
at the Advanced School and Conference on Quantum Matter, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy – Dec. 2025,
at the Susegad Symposium on Quantum Dynamics and Thermalization (SSQDT), BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India - Feb. 2026.
“Matrix-Product States for Quantum Many-Body Systems”
at the Asian Network School and Workshop on Complex Condensed Matter Systems 2024, Bangkok, Thailand – Nov. 2024.
“Cavity control of quantum many-body systems: From topology to photon condensation”
at the Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, India – Jan. 2024.
“Quantifying quantum magic in many-body systems”
at QIPA-2023, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Prayagraj, India – Dec. 2023.
“Emerging non-Abelian SU(2) symmetry in Rydberg quantum simulators”
at Emerging Topics in Quantum Technology (ETQT-2023), IIT Palakkad, India – Nov. 2023.
“Entanglement and photon condensation in cavity QED many-body systems”
at 9th Trieste-Ljubljana-Zagreb Meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia – Mar. 2023.
“Critical light-matter entanglement at cavity mediated phase transition”
at Shedding Quantum Light on Strongly Correlated Materials (QLCM22), Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS), Dresden, Germany – Aug. 2022.
“Quantized bubble nucleation”
at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia – Jan. 2022,
at the Department of Atomic Optics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland – Oct. 2021.
“Bosonic Peierls transition in cold-atomic simulators”
at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy – Feb. 2021,
at the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CFT PAN), Warsaw, Poland – Nov. 2020.
“Lattice gauge theories in the age of quantum technologies: Bosonic Schwinger model out of equilibrium”
Particle Physics Phenomenology and Experiments Seminar, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland – Jul. 2021,
at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India – Jul. 2020.
“Generation and Preservation of Entanglement in Quantum Spin models”
at the Department of Atomic Optics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland – Dec. 2018,
at Quantum Optics Theory Group, ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona, Spain – Nov. 2018.
“Determinstic Quantum Dense Coding Networks”
at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada – Mar. 2018.
“Frozen Quantum Correlations”
at the Advanced School and Workshop on Quantum Science and Quantum Technologies, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy – Sep. 2017.