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Faculty Profile
National Instituteof Science Educationand Research
National Institute of Science Education and ResearchInstitute of Physics Campus, PO: Sainik School,Bhubaneswar, Orissa - 751 005, INDIAPhones : +91 (674) 2304000 | Fax : +91 (674) 2304070
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Faculty Profile
Avidyaya mrityam tirthavidyaya amritam snute
By ignorance we cross through death, by knowledge we achieve immortality
1986 – 1988 M.Sc. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
1988 – 1989 Post M.Sc. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, India
1989 – 1994 Ph.D. SINP, Kolkata, India
1994 – 1997 Post Doc Stockholm University & Karolinska Institute, Sweden
1997 – 2000 Post Doc University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
1986 - 1989 B.Sc. Jyoti Vihar, Orissa, India.
1989 – 1992 M.Sc. Jyoti Vihar, Orissa, India
1993 – 1998 Ph.D. TIFR, Mumbai, India
1998 – 1999 Premier Asst. LPC, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
1999 – 2000 Project Leader Albert Ludwig University (ALU), Freiburg, Germany
2000 – 2006 Post Doc ALU, Freiburg, Germany.
2006 – 2009 Post Doc & Lab. Manager Max-Plank Institute, köln, Germany
§ Ramalingaswamy Fellowship, India
§ Innovation Award, Canada
§ FEBS Young Scientist
§ Mucosal Immunity
§ Stress and disease correlation
§ nano-immune therapy
§ Young researcher award from Third World Academy of Sciences and UNESCO, 1996.
§ Swiss National Foundation fellowship 1999, Switzerland
§ Supported out of DFG, EC, Humbold Foundation and Max-Planck Society Fellowships, Germany. 2000-2009.
§ Plant developmental biology and Signaling systems in plants.
§ Light Signaling, flowering time control and circadian rhythm in plants,
§ Producing bioactive compounds/proteins using moss, Physcomitrella as a model system.
§ Exploring the flora and fauna of Chilika and evaluating their immune-modulatory role.
1. Alison Thompson, Elaine Van Moorlehem and P. Aich*. Probiotic-Induced Priming of Innate Immunity to Protect Against
Rotaviral Infection. Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 2010, 2 (2), 90
2. P.Aich*, L. A. Babiuk, A. Potter, P. Griebel Biomarkers for Prediction of Bovine Respiratory Disease Outcome. Omics; A journal of
Integrative Biology, 2009, 13 (3), 1-11
3. C. D. Fjell, H. Jenssen, P. Fries, P. Aich, P. Griebel, K. Hilpert, R. E. W. Hancock, and A. Cherkasov (2008) Identification of novel host
defense peptides and the absence of alpha-defensins in the bovine genome. Proteins, 2008, 73 (2), 420-30
4. A. Rakitin, P.Aich, C. Papadopoulos, Y. Kobzar, A.S. Vedeneev, J.S. Lee & J.M. Xu, Metallic Conduction Through Engineered DNA:
DNA Nanoelectronic Building Blocks. Physical Review Letters 2001, 86(16), 3670-3673+ +5. P. Aich, T. J. Thomas and J. S. Lee, The role of polyamines, Na and K in the formation of triple helices between purine
oligonucleotides and the promoter region of the human c-src proto-oncogene. Nucleic Acids Research 2000, 28 (12), 2307-2310
1. Kishore CS. Panigrahi, M. Panigrahi, M. Stackelberg, R. Reski and MM. Johri. Auxin-binding proteins without KDEL sequence
in the moss Funaria hygrometrica. Plant Cell Rep., 2009, Oct 2. PMID: 19798504
2. F. Fornara, Kishore CS Panigrahi, L. Gissot, N. Sauerbrunn, M. Rühl and G. Coupland. Arabidopsis DOF transcription factors act
redundantly to reduce CONSTANS expression and are essential for a photoperiodic flowering response. Developmental Cell.
2009, 17(1), 75-86.
3. R. Budhiraja, R. Hermkes, S. Müller, Kishore CS Panigrahi, J. Schmidt, T. Colby, G. Coupland and A. Bachmair.: Substrates Related
to Chromatin and to RNA-Dependent Processes … Differ in a Conserved Residue with Influence on De-Sumoylation. Plant
Physiology, USA 2009, 149 (3), 1529-40.
4. S. Jang, V. Marchal, Kishore CS. Panigrahi, S. Wenkel, W. Soppe, X.-W. Deng, F. Valverde and G. Coupland. Arabidopsis COP1
shapes the temporal pattern of CO … photoperiodic flowering response. EMBO J. 2008, 27(8), 1277-88.
5. D. Bauer, A. Viczian, S. Kircher, T. Nobis, R. Nitschke, T. Kunkel, Kishore CS. Panigrahi, E. Adam, E. Fejes, E. Schafer, F. Nagy.
Constitutive photomorphogenesis 1 and multiple … 3, a transcription factor required for light signaling in Arabidopsis. The
Plant Cell, 2004, 16(6), 433-45.
Dr. Palok Aich Associate Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009* Corresponding Author
is currently holding the position of Dr. Kishore CS. Panigrahi Reader (F), NISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2009is currently holding the position of
Abdur Rahaman Asima BhattacharyyaAssistant Professor
A. Bhattacharyya, R. Chattopadhyay, EH. Hall, ST. Mebrahtu, PB. Ernst, SE. Crowe. Mechanism of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α-
mediated Mcl1 regulation in Helicobacter pylori-infected human gastric epithelium. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver
Physiol. 2010, 299, G1177-86.
Dr. Abdur Rahaman Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of **Considered one of the major discoveries in Tetrahymena: D.L. Chalker Current Biology, 2008, 18, R923-925
Dr. Asima Bhattacharyya Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010is currently holding the position of
Chandan Goswami Debasmita P. AloneAssistant Professor
Dr. Harapriya Mohapatra Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswaris currently holding the position of Dr. Manjusha Dixit Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010is currently holding the position of
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1991 – 1994 B.Sc. Nagpur University, Nagpur, India
1994 - 1996 M.Sc. Nagpur University, Nagpur, India
1996 – 2001 Ph.D. National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India
2001 – 2006 Post Doc National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
2006 – 2008 Project Scientist University of California, Davis, USA
1995 B.Sc.Nagpur University, Nagpur
1997 M.Sc.Nagpur University, Nagpur
1998 B.Ed.Nagpur University, Nagpur
1998-2004 Ph.D.Nagpur University, Nagpur
2004-2009 Postdoctoral fellowTufts Medical Center, Boston, USA
2009-2010 Research AssociateTufts Medical Center, Boston, USA
§ NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (NIH-FARE) for years 2005 and 2006.
§ Mechanism of start codon recognition & translation fidelity.
§ Translational control in molecular medicine and regulation of protein biosynthesis.
§ Architecture of translation apparatus, molecular interactions and supra molecular assembly of translation initiation
complex.
§ Neurobiology
§ Neuropharmacology of anxiety and depression
§ Chemical neuroanatomy of the brain of fish and mammals
§ Neural regulation of feeding, stress and reproduction
1. P. V. Alone, C. Cao and TE. Dever. Translation initiation factor eIF2γ mutants alter start codon selection independent of Met-MettRNA binding. Mol Cell Biol. 2008, 28(22), 6877-88.i
2. P. V. Alone and LC. Garg. Secretory and GM1 receptor binding role of N-Terminal end of LTB in Vibrio Cholerae. Biochem Biophy
Res Comm. 2008, 376(4), 770-4.
3. P. V. Alone, G. Malik, A. Krishnan and LC. Garg. Deletion mutations in N-terminal α1 helix render heat labile enterotoxin B
5. A. Roll-Mecak, P. V. Alone, C. Cao, TE. Dever and SK. Burley. X-ray structure of translation initiation factor eIF2γ: implications for
tRNA and eIF2α binding, J Biol Chem. 2004, 279(11), 10634-42.
1. PS Singru, C Fekete, RM Lechan. Neuroanatomical evidence for participation of the hypothalamic dorsomedial nucleus (DMN)
in the regulation of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) by alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone. Brain
Research, 2005, 1064, 42-51.
2. PS Singru, E Sánchez, C Fekete, RM Lechan. Importance of melanocortin signaling system in refeeding-induced neuronal
activation and satiety. Endocrinology, 2007, 148, 638-646.
3. PS Singru, M Mazumdar, AJ Sakharkar, RM Lechan, L Thim, J Clausen, N Subhedar. Immunohistochemical localization of
cocaine-and amphetamine- regulated transcript peptide in the brain of the catfish, Clarias batrachus (Linn). Journal of
Comparative Neurology, 2007, 502, 215-235.
4. PS Singru, E Sánchez, R Acharya, C Fekete, RM Lechan. Mitogen-activated protein kinase contributes to lipopolysaccharide-
induced activation of corticotropin-releasing hormone synthesizing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.
Endocrinology, 2008, 149, 2283-2292.
5. SK Maji, MH Perrin, MR Sawaya, S Jessberger, K Vadodaria, RA Rissman, PS Singru, KPR Nilsson, R Simon, D Schubert, D
Eisenberg, J Rivier, P Sawchenko, W Vale, R Riek. Functional amyloids as natural storage of peptide hormones in pituitary
secretory granules. Science, 2009, 325, 328-332.
Dr. Pankaj V. Alone Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of Dr. Praful Singru Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010is currently holding the position of
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1992 – 1995 B. Sc. University of Calcutta, India
1995 – 1997 M. Sc. University of Calcutta, India
1997 – 2003 Ph. D. Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, India
2003 – 2006 Post Doc University of Connecticut Health Center, Department of Medicine, USA
2006 – 2008 Post Doc University of Connecticut Health Center, Department of Immunology, USA
1996 – 2000 B. Pharm Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai, India
2000 – 2002 M. Tech CBT, Anna University, Chennai, India
2002 – 2006 Ph.D. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
2006 – 2006 Post Doc German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
§ “Sudev Bhusan Ghosh Young Scientist” awarded by The Zoological society, Kolkata, India, 2002.
§ “Rapid grant for young investigators” awarded by DBT, Ministry of Science & Technology, India, 2010
§ Immunology: Regulatory T cell (Treg); Toll Like Receptor (TLR), Infection Immunity, Tumor Immunity, Immune Privilege
§ 2009 - Mike Price Fellowship award, European Association for Cancer research (EACR).
§ 2001 - BTIS-DBT Summer Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), INDIA.
§ Interdisciplinary approaches towards rational drug design.
§ Pharmacogenomics of traditional medicine and natural products.
1. Cone RE, Chattopadhyay S, Sharafieh R, Lemire Y and O' Rourke J. The suppression of hypersensitivity by ocular–induced CD8+
T cells requires compatibility in the Qa-1 haplotype. Immunol Cell Biol., 2009, 87, 241-248.
2. Chattopadhyay S, O'Rourke J and Cone RE. Implication for the CD94/NKG2A-Qa-1 System in the Generation and Function of
Ocular-induced Splenic CD8+ Regulatory T cells. Int Immunol., 2008, 20, 509-516.
3. Chattopadhyay S, Mehrotra S, Chhabra A, Hegde U, Mukherji B and Chakraborty NG. Effect of CD4+CD25+ and CD4+CD25- T
Regulatory Cells on the Generation of Cytolytic T Cell Response to a Self but Human Tumor-Associated Epitope In Vitro. J.
Immunol., 2006, 176, 984- 990.
4. Chattopadhyay S, Chakraborty NG, Mukherji B. Regulatory T cells and tumor immunity. Cancer Immunol Immunother., 2005,
54, 1153- 1161.
5. Chattopadhyay S. and Chakraborty N. G. Continuous Presence of TH1 Conditions is Necessary for Longer Lasting Tumor-
specific CTL Activity in Stimulation Cultures with PBL. Hum Immunol., 2005, 66, 884- 891
1. V.B. Konkimalla, T. Efferth Inhibition of epidermal growth factor receptor-overexpressing cancer cells by camptothecin, 20-
4. V.B. Konkimalla, J. A. McCubrey and T. Efferth. The role of downstream signaling pathways of the epidermal growth factor
receptor for artesunate's activity in cancer cells. Current Cancer Drug Targets, 2009, 9(1), 72-80.
5. V.B. Konkimalla, M. Blunder, B. Korn, S. A. Soomro, H. Jansen, W. Chang, G. H. Posner, R. Bauer and T. Efferth. Effect of
artemisinins and other endoperoxides on nitric oxide-related signalling pathway in RAW 264.7 mouse macrophage cells.
Nitric Oxide 2008, 19, 184-191.
Dr. Subhasis Chattopadhyay Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of Dr. Venkata Sai Badireenath Konkimalla Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010is currently holding the position of
5. S. Ghosh, S. Bandyopadhyay, S. Pal, B. Das, DK. Bhattacharya, C. Mandal. Increased interferon gamma production … disease-
specific 9-O-acetylated sialoglycoconjugates in children suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Br J Haematol., 2005,
128(1), 35-41.
Dr. Rabindranath Nayak Visiting Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswaris currently holding the position of Shyamasree Basu Scientific Officer (E), NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of
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School ofChemical Sciences
T. K. Chandrashekar A. SrinivasanSr. Professor and Director
4. R. Misra and T. K. Chandrashekar. Structural Diversity in Expanded Porphyrins. Acc. Chem. Res., 2007, 41, 265-279.
5. J. Sankar, H. Rath, V. Prabhuraja, S. Gokulnath, T. K. Chandrashekar, C. S. Purohit and S. Verma. meso-meso Linked Core-
modified Corrole-Dimers: Synthesis, Characterization and Properties. Chemistry-A European Journal, 2007, 13, 105-114.
1. K. S. Anju, S. Ramakrishnan, Ajesh P. Thomas, E. Suresh and A. Srinivasan.* 9,10,19,20-Tetraarylporphycenes. Org. Lett., 2008,
10, 5545-5548.
2. S. Ramakrishnan and A. Srinivasan.* ansa-Metallocene based cyclic[2]pyrroles. Org. Lett., 2007, 9, 4769-4772.
3. I. Gupta, A. Srinivasan, T. Morimoto, M. Toganoh and H. Furuta.* N-Confused and N-Fused meso-Aryl Sapphyrins. Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 4563-4567.
4. A. Srinivasan and H. Furuta.* The Confusion Approach in Porphyrinoid Chemistry: Acc. Chem. Res., 2005, 38, 10-20.
5. A. Srinivasan, M. Toganoh, T. Niino, A. Osuka and H. Furuta.* Synthesis of N-Confused Tetraphenylporphyrin Rhodium
Complexes Having Versatile Metal Oxidation States: Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 11305-11313.
Dr. T. K. Chandrashekar Director, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2008is currently holding the position of Dr. A. Srinivasan Associate Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of
3. David A. Snyder, Arindam Ghosh, Fengli Zhang, Thomas Szyperski and Rafael Bruschweiler, Z-matrix formalism for quantitative
noise assessment of covariance nuclear magnetic resonance spectra, Journal of Chemical Physics. 2008, 129, 104511
4. Arindam Ghosh and Anil Kumar, Experimental Measurement of Mixed State Geometric Phase by Quantum Interferometry using
NMR, Physics Letters A, 2006, 349, 27
5. Arindam Ghosh and Anil Kumar, Relaxation of pseudo-pure states: the role of cross-correlations, Journal of Magnetic
Resonance. 2005, 173, 125
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Dr. Arindam Ghosh is currently holding the position of Assistant ProfessorNISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2010 Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of
Chandra Shekhar Purohit Chidambaram GunanathanAssistant Professor
5. Damian Ackermann, Thorsten L. Schmidt, Jeffrey S. Hannam, Chandra S.Purohit, Alexander Heckel and Michael Famulok. A
double-stranded DNA rotaxane. Nat. Nanotech. 2010, 5,436-442
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Dr. Chandra Shekhar Purohit is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubneswar from 2010 Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of
Jogendra Nath Behera Moloy SarkarAssistant Professor
1. R. K. Kanaparthi, M. Sarkar and A. Samanta. Probing the Aggregated State of 4-(9-Anthryl)-N,N-dimethylaniline by UV−Vis
Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Crystallography. J. Phys. Chem. B 2009, 113, 15189-15195.
2. A. Paul, M. Sarkar, D. C. Khara, T. Kamijo, A. Yamaguchi, N. teramae and A. Samanta. Solvation dynamics of a surfactant probe in
mesostructured silica-surfactant nanocomposites. Chem. Phys. Lett. 2009, 469, 71-75.
3. M. Sarkar, and A. Samanta. Theoretical study of the mechanism of interaction of a flavone derivative with halides: basis set
dependence of the results. J. Mol. Str. Theochem 2008, 863, 111-116.
4. M. Sarkar, R. K. Kanaparthi, B. Bhattacharya, and A. Samanta. Polarity dependence of the photophysical behaviour of electron
donor-acceptor flavone derivatives: change in the nature of the emitting state. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2008, 112, 3302-3310.
5. M. Sarkar and Anunay Samanta. Photophysical and density functional studies of the interaction of a flavone derivative with the
halides. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 7027-7033.
Dr. Jogendra Nath Behera is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010 Dr. Moloy Sarkar is currently holding the position of Asst. Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2009
Prasenjit Mal S. PeruncheralathanAssistant Professor
5. S. Peruncheralathan, T. A. Khan, H. Ila, H. Junjappa. Regioselective Synthesis of 1-Aryl-3,4-Substituted/annulated-5-
(methylthio)pyrazoles and 1-Aryl-3-(methylthio)-4,5-Substituted/ Annulated Pyrazoles. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 10030-10035.
Dr. Prasenjit Mal is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. S. Peruncheralathan is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010
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1998 B.Sc. University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India
2000 M.Sc. University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India
2005 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
2006 - 2008 Post Doc IMCE, Kyushu University, Japan
1993-1996 B.Sc. Karnatak University Dharwad, Karnataka, India
1997-1999 M.Sc. Karnatak University Dharwad, Karnataka, India
2004-2007 Ph.D. Goettingen University, Germany
2008-2010 Post Doc Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
§ Bio-Inorganic Chemistry
§ Metalloporphyrin Chemistry
§ Model compounds for artificial photosynthesis
§ Catalysts for organic conversions
§ Synthetic Inorganic and Main Group Organometallic Chemistry
§ Synthesis and reactivity of low oxidation state main group metal compounds
§ Synthesis of main group metal hydroxides
1. V.K. Yadav, S. Kar, L. Mishra. Novel mononuclear and binuclear Ru(II) bipyridyl complexes of Schiff bases bearing 1,2,4-triazole:
Synthesis, characterization and electrochemistry. Polyhedron, 2009, 28, 121.
2. S. Kar, B. Sarkar, S. Ghumaan, M. Leboschka, J. Fiedler, W. Kaim, G. K. Lahiri. Ancillary ligand determination of the spin location in
both oxidised ... bis-bidentate 1, 4-bis(2-phenolato)-1,4-diazabutadiene. Dalton Trans., 2007, 1934
3. S. Ghumaan, S. Kar, S. M. Mobin, V. G. Puranik, G. K. Lahiri, 2,4,6-Tris(2-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazine (tptz)-Derived II + III + II +[Ru (tptz)(acac)(CH CN)] and Mixed-Valent [(acac) Ru {( -tptz-H )-}Ru (acac)(CH CN)] , Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 2413 3 2 3
4. S. Kar, B. Sarkar, S. Ghumaan, D. Janardanan, J. V. Slageren, J. Fiedler, V. G. Puranik, R. B. Sunoj, W. Kaim, G. K. Lahiri. 2, 25Dioxido1,4benzoquinonediimine (H L ), a ... Distributions in Complexes. Chem. Eur. J., 2005, 11, 4901 2
5. S. Kar, N. Chanda, S. M. Mobin, F. A. Urbanos, M. Niemeyer, V. G. Puranik, R. J. Aparicio, G. K.Lahiri. Unusual Monodentate
Binding Mode of ... Magnetic Aspects. Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 1571
1. S. J. Bonyhady, C. Jones, S. Nembenna, A. Stasch, A. J. Edwards and G. J. McIntyre. β-Diketiminate satabilized magnesium(I)
dimers and magnesium(II) hydride complexes: synthesis, characterization, adduct formation and reactivity studies. Chem. Eur.
J. 2010, 16, 938-955.
2. A dimeric magnesium (I) compound as a facile two-center/two-electron reductant. S. J. Bonyhady, S. P. Green, C. Jones, S.
Nembenna, and A. Stasch Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2973-2977.
3. S. P. Sarish, S. Nembenna, H. W. Roesky, H. Ott, A. Pal, D. Stalke, S. Dutta, and S. K. Pati. Soluble molecular dimers of CaO and SrO
stabilized by a Lewis acid. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 8740-8742.
4. S. Nembenna, H. W. Roesky, S. Nagendran, A. Hofmeister, P-J. Wilbrandt, and M. Hahn. A well defined hydrocarbon-soluble
calcium monofluoride, [{LCaF(thf)} ]: the application of soluble calcium derivatives for surface coating. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2
2007, 46, 2512-2514.
6. S. Nembenna, H. W. Roesky, S. K. Mandal, R. B. Oswald, A. Pal, R. Herbst-Irmer, M. Noltemeyer, and H. Schmidt. Soluble
molecular compounds with the Mg–O–Al structural motif: a model approach for the fixation of organometallics on a MgO
surface. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 13056-13057.
Dr. Sanjib Kar is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. Sharanappa Nembenna is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER Bhubaneswar, India from 2010
Sudip Barman Upakarasamy LourderajAssistant Professor
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1997 – 1999 M. Sc. University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India
2000 – 2006 Ph.D Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
2006 – 2009 Post Doc National Institute of Nanotechnology (NINT), University of Alberta, Canada.
1995 B. Sc Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
1998 M. Sc Bharathidasan University, India
1999 M. Phil Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
2004 Ph. D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, ndia
2004 – 2008 Post Doc Texas Tech. University, Texas, USA.
§ Nanoscience and Nanomaterials,
§ Molecular Electronics
§ Materials Chemistry § Computational studies of the dynamics of chemical reactions
§ Molecules under mechanical stress
§ Development of methodology/algorithm and applications of ab initio chemical dynamic simulations
§ Ground and excited state electronic structure properties of molecules1. Sudip Barman, Fengjun Deng and Richard L. McCreery. Conducting Polymer Memory Devices Based on Dynamic Doping. J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 11073-11081.
2. S. Barman and S. Vasudevan. Melting of an Anchored Bilayer: Phase Transitions in the Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Pervoskite
(CH NH )(CH (CH ) NH ) Pb I (n = 11, 13, 15, 17). J. Phys. Chem. C, 2009, 113, 15698-15706.3 3 3 2 n 3 2 2 7
3. S. Barman and S. Vasudevan. Mixed Saturated -Unsaturated Fatty-acid Salt Assemblies: Solid Solutions of Zinc Stearate and
Oleate. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007 111, 5212-5217.
4. S. Barman and S. Vasudevan. Contrasting melting behavior of Zinc Stearate and Zinc Oleate. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 651-
654.
5. S. Barman and S. Vasudevan. Melting of Saturated Fatty Acid Zinc Soaps. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 22407-22414.
1. U. Lourderaj and W. L. Hase. Theoretical and Computational Studies of NonRRKM Unimolecular Dynamics. J. Phys. Chem. A,
2009, 113, 2236.
2. U. Lourderaj, Jason L. McAfee, and William L. Hase. Potential Energy Surface and Unimolecular Dynamics of Stretched n-
Butane. J. Chem. Phys., 2008, 129, 094701
3. J. Mikosch, S. Trippel, C. Eichhorn, R. Otto, U. Lourderaj, J. X. Zhang, W. L. Hase, M. Weidemüller and R. Wester. Imaging
4. U. Lourderaj, K. Song, T. L. Windus, Y. Zhuang, and W. L. Hase. Direct dynamics simulations using Hessianbased
predictorcorrector integration algorithm. J. Chem. Phys., 2007, 126, 044105
5. U. Lourderaj, K. Giri, and and N. Sathyamurthy. Ground and excited states of the monomer and dimer of certain carboxylic
acids. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2006, 110, 2709
Dr. Sudip Barman is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. U. Lourderaj is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009
Venkatasubbaiah Krishnan Mahendra K. Mahanti?? Visiting Professor
Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of Dr. Mahendra K. Mahanti is currently holding the position of Visiting Prof. School of Chemical Sciences, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2007
Nagendra K. Sharma Pradeep K. ChaudhuryVisiting Faculty
5. K.Nagarajan, H.K.Joshi, P.K.Chaudhury,K.Pal, J.A. Cooney, J.H.Enemark and S.Sarkar, Structural and functional analogue of the
active site of polysulfide reductase from Wolinella Succinogen, Inorg.Chem, 2004, 43, 4532.
Dr. Nagendra K. Sharma is currently holding the position of Visiting Faculty, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. Pradeep K. Chaudhury Bhubaneswaris currently holding the position of Visiting Faculty,
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School ofMathematicalSciences
Varadharajan Muruganandam Anil Kumar KarnAssociate Professor
1981-1987 Ph.D Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur,
1987 -1987 Post Doctoral Fellow T.I.F.R, Mumbai.
1989-1990 Post Doctoral Fellow Universite de Poiters, France.
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§ Harmonic analysis
§ Universite de Nancy, France.
§ Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie, (PARIS VI), Paris, France.
§ ??
1. Varadharajan Muruganandam, The Fourier algebra of a Hypergroup-I, Journal of Australian Mathematical Society, 2007, 82,
59-83.
2. Varadharajan Muruganandam, The Fourier algebra of a Hypergroup-II Spherical hypergroups, Mathematische Nachrichten,
2008, 281 (11), 1590-1603.
3. Varadharajan Muruganandam, The constants of Cowling and Haagerup, Journal of Lie Theory, 2008, 18, 627-644.
4. Varadharajan Muruganandam, The other side of harmonic analysis, Newsletter of Ramanujan Mathematical Society,
2008.
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1998 B.A. Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Orissa, India
2000 M.A. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
2004 M.Phil. Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India
2008 Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore, India
1999 B. Sc. G. M College (Autonomous), Sambalpur, India
2001 M. Sc. Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, India
2002 – 2008 Ph. D. Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India
2008 – 2010 Post Doc University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
§ CSIR Fellowship, 2002
§ NBHM Research Award, 2000
§ Utkal University Gold Medal, 2000
§ Groups and Combinatorics
§ Incidence Geometries
§ Graph Theory
§ ISI - Bangalore, Ghent University, Belgium
§ National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) Research Fellowship – 2001
Number Theory, more specifically:
§ Supercongruences
§ Modular Forms
§ Jacobi Forms
1. K. L. Patra and B. K. Sahoo, A non-abelian representation of the dual polar space DQ(2n,2), Innovations in Incidence Geometry,
2009, 9, 177-188.
2. B. K. Sahoo and N. S. N. Sastry, On the order of a non-abelian representation group of a slim dense near hexagon, Journal of
Algebraic Combinatorics, 2009, 29, 195-213.
3. B. K. Sahoo, New constructions of two slim dense near hexagons, Discrete Mathematics, 2008, 308, 2018-2024.
4. B. K. Sahoo and N. S. N. Sastry, A characterization of finite symplectic polar spaces of odd prime order, Journal of Combinatorial
Theory, Series A, 2007, 114, 52-64.
1. B. Ramakrishnan and Brundaban Sahu. Rankin's method and Jacobi forms of several variables. J. Aust. Math. Soc., 2010, 88,
131-143.
2. S. Gun, F. Luca, P. Rath, Brundaban Sahu and R. Thangadurai. Distribution of residues modulo p. Acta Arith. 2007, 129, 325-333.
3. B. Ramakrishnan and Brundaban Sahu, On the Fourier expansions of Jacobi forms of half-integral weight. Int. J. Math.
Math. Sci, 2006.
Dr. Binod Kumar Sahoo is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. Brundaban Sahu is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010
Deepak Kumar Dalai Kamal Lochan PatraAssistant Professor
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1996-1999 B.Sc Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.
1999-2001 M.Sc (Mathematics) Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.
2001-2003 M.Tech (Comp. Sc.) Indian Statistical Institute, India.
2003-2006 Ph.D (Comp. Sc.) Indian Statistical Institute, India.
2006-2007 Post doc INRIA, France.
1995-2000 B.Sc & M.Sc Utkal University, Orissa, India
2002-2008 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
2008 Post doc Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
§ Study and analysis of algebraic immunity of cryptographical Boolean functions.
§ Construction of cryptographical Boolean functions of high algebraic immunity.
§ Cryptanalysis of stream cipher HC256 and HC128.
§ Study and construction of Almost Perfect Nonlinear Substitution boxes.
§ Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
§ INRIA, France.
§ Calcutta University, Kolkata.
§ CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS), Hyderabad.
§ Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
§ Linear Algebra
§ Graph Theory
1. Deepak Kumar Dalai, Subhamoy Maitra and Sumanta Sarkar, Rotation Symmetric Bent Functions, Discrete Mathematics,
2009, 309 (8), 2398-2409.
2. Deepak Kumar Dalai and Subhamoy Maitra, Algebraic Immunity of Boolean Functions: Analysis and Constructions, Special
Issue on Applied Cryptography and Data Security, Journal of Computacion y Sistemas, 2009, 12 (3),297-321.
3. Deepak Kumar Dalai, On 3-to-1 and Power APN S-boxe, International Conference on SEquences and Their Applications, 2008
(SETA08), Lexington, USA and published in Springer's LNCS 5203, 377-389.
4. Deepak Kumar Dalai, Kishan Chand Gupta and Subhamoy Maitra, Algebraic Immunity for Cryptographically Significant Boolean
Functions: Analysis and Construction-Claude Carlet, , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2006, 52 (7), 3105-3121.
5. Deepak Kumar Dalai, Subhamoy Maitra and Sumanta Sarkar, Basic Theory in Construction of Boolean Functions with
Maximum Possible Annihilator Immunity, Design, Codes and Cryptography, 2006, 40 (1), 41-58.
1. K. L. Patra and B. K. Sahoo, A non-abelian representation of the dual polar space DQ(2n,2), Innovations in Incidence Geometry,
2009, 9, 177-188.
2. A. K. Lal and K. L. Patra, The effect on the algebraic connectivity of a tree by grafting and collapsing of edges, Linear Algebra and
its Applications, 2008, 428, 855-864.
3. A. K. Lal and K. L. Patra, Maximizing Laplacian spectral radius over trees with fixed diameter, Linear and Multilinear Algebra,
2007, 55 (5), 457-461.
4. K. L. Patra, Maximizing the distance between center, centroid and characteristic set of a tree, Linear and Multilinear Algebra,
2007, 55 (4), 381-397.
5. A. K. Lal, S. Pati and K. L. Patra, Graph structure via its Laplacian matrix, The Mathematics Student, 2007, 76(1-4), 199-212.
Dr. Deepak Kumar Dalai is currently holding the position of Asst. Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2009 Dr. Kamal Lochan Patra is currently holding the position of Asst. Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009
Nabin Kumar Jana Sanjay Parui?? Assistant Professor
Dr. Narahari Parhi is currently holding the position of Visiting Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2007 Dr. P. C. Das NISER, Bhubaneswaris currently holding the position of Visiting Professor,
Vellat Krishna Kumar??
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1967 M. Sc. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
1968 Post M. Sc. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
1974 Ph.D. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
1972 M.Sc. University of Delhi, India
1972 - 1979 Ph.D. Utkal University, India
Nuclear Physics:
§ Structure of high angular momentum states in nuclei
§ Structure of hot and rotating nuclei
§ Nuclear structure in relativistic theory
§ High Energy Physics-Theory & Phenomenology, QCD
§ Quantum Physics and Quantum Field Theory
1970 Mayubhanj Gold Medal (Utkal University)
1982 DAAD-Research Fellowship (Germany)
1982 Visiting Scientist (Syracuse University, USA)
1982 Visitor (SLAC, Stanford University)
1983 UGC-National associate, TIFR, Mumbai
1994-96 INSA-Senior Visiting Fellow
2008 “SIKSYA RATAN PURASKAR”, Indian International Friendship Society, Delhi
1. R. Rossignoli, A. Ansari and P. Ring. Projected statistics and level densitics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1993, 70, 277
1542. A. Ansari. g-factors of high spin states in Dy. Phys. Rev. C, 1994, 49, 2809
3. B. K. Agrawal, A. Ansari and P. Ring. A microscopic study of the giant dipole resonance γ-absorption cross section in hot rotating
nuclei. Nucl. Phys. 1997, A615, 183
+4. A. Ansari. Study of the lowest 2 excitations and B(E2) transition strengths in relativistic quasiparticle random phase
approximation for Sn-, and Pb-isotopes. Phys. Letts., 2005, B623, 37.
+ -5. A. Ansari and P. Ring. Lowest lying 2 and 3 states of Z-even N = 50 isotones in relativistic quasiparticle random phase
approximation. Modern Physics Letters, 2009, A24, 3103.
1. B.P. Mahapatra, N.Santi, A novel non-perturbative, self-consistent approximation scheme in quantum theory..., 2008,
arXiv:0806.2048[quant-ph].
2. B. P. Mahapatra, N. Santi, N. B. Pradhan, A new general approximation scheme in quantum theory, Int. J. Mod. Phys.-A, 2005,
20, 2687.
3. B.P. Mahapatra, A model independent constraint on the gluon structure function at small-x, Mod. Phys. Lett., 1989, A4, 1653
24. B.P. Mahapatra, Are the scaling violations observed in deep-inelastic lepton-hadron scattering purely(1/Q ) effects? Phys. Rev.,
1982, D26, 3002
25. B.P. Mahapatra, The effect of O(1/Q ) contributions in scaling violations…, Phys.Lett. 1980, 97B, 299.
Dr. Ahmed Ansari is currently holding the position of Visiting Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. Bimal P. Mahapatra is currently holding the position of Visiting Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010
Sashikant C. Phatak Suresh G. MishraVisiting Professor
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1968 M.Sc. Bombay University, India
1974 Ph.D. University of Pittsburg, PA, USA.
1977 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
§ Intermediate energy nuclear physics, quark models, QGP
§ Many Particle Physics, Correlated Fermions, Magnetism, Quantum Phase Transition.
1. S. Dash, D. K. Mishra, S. C. Phatak and P. K. Sahu, Flow Coefficients and Jet Characteristics, Applied Math. And Information
Sciences - An International Journal, 2009, 3, 97
2. S. C. Phatak, Dielectric Model Nucleon in Nuclear Medum, International Journal of Modern Physics, 2009, 18, 1166
3. P. K. Sahu, A. Ohnishi, M. Isse, N. Otuka and S. C. Phatak, Elliptic Flow in Hadron Cascade Model at 130 GeV Energy, Pramana,
2006, 67, 257
4. Star Collaboration paper, Multiplicity and Pseudorapidity distributions of Charged Particles and Photons at Forward sPseudorapidity in Au + Au Collisions at Ö NN = 62.4 GeV, Phys. Rev. C, 2006, 73, 034906
6. S. C. Phatak and P. K. Sahu, Characterization of Jets in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, Phys. Rev. C, 2004, 69, 024901
1. Nabyendu Das, Suresh G. Mishra, Quantum ferroelectrics near weak first order transition, Cond. Mat. arXiv, 0906.0944
2. Nabyendu Das, Suresh G. Mishra, First order phase transition in quantum paraelectrics, Cond. Mat. arXiv, 0805.4008
3. Nabyendu Das, Suresh G. Mishra, Fluctuations and criticality in quantum paraelectrics, Cond. Mat. arXiv, 0707.2634, J. Phys.:
Condens. Matter , 2009, 21, 095901
Dr. Sashikant C. Phatak is currently holding the position of Visiting Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2007 Dr. Suresh G. Mishra is currently holding the position of Associate Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2008
4. S. Basak, Asit K. De and Tilak Sinha. On the continuum limit of gauge fixed compact U(1) lattice gauge theory. Phys. Lett. B, 2004,
580, 209.
5. S. Basak, Asit K. De. Gauge fixed domain wall fermions on lattice at small Yukawa coupling. Phys. Lett., 2001, B522, 350.
Dr. Sanjay K. Swain is currently holding the position of Reader-F, NISER, Orissa, India from 2009 Dr. Subhasish Basak is currently holding the position of Reader – F, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009
A. V. Anil Kumar Ashok MohapatraAssistant Professor
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1990 – 1993 B. Sc. University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India
1993 – 1995 M. Sc. Indian Institute of Technology, Channai, India
1995 – 2002 Ph. D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
2002 – 2003 Post Doc Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
2003 – 2004 Post Doc University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.
2004 – 2006 Post Doc The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
2006 – 2008 Post Doc Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
1996 – 1998 MSc. Utkal University
1998 – 2005 PhD TIFR,Mumbai
2005 – 2006 Visiting Fellow TIFR,Mumbai
2006 – 2008 Post Doc. Durham University,UK
2008 – 2010 Post.Doc. University of Stuttgart, Germany
§ Equilibrium and non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics,
§ Soft Condensed matter ,
§ Confined fluids,
§ Classical molecular simulations.
§ Alexander von Humboldt Fellow June 2009
§ An “Honorable Mention” for TAA-Geeta Udgaonkar Award for best Thesis 2006-2007
§ Best thesis award in national laser symposium, India, 2005
§ Ultracold atoms
§ Bose-Einstein condensation
1. A. V. Anil Kumar and Suresh K. Bhatia. Is kinetic molecular sieving of hydrogen isotopes feasible? J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112,
11421.
2. Ankur Gigras, Suresh K. Bhatia, A. V. Anil Kumar and Alan Myers. Feasibility of tailoring for high isosteric heat to improve
effectiveness of hydrogen storage in carbons. Carbon, 2007, 45, 1043.
3. A. V. Anil Kumar, H. Jobic and Suresh K. Bhatia. Hydrogen adsorption and transport in zeolite Rho at low temperatures: A
Molecular dynamics and Neutron scattering study. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 16666.
4. A. V. Anil Kumar and Suresh K. Bhatia. Quantum mediated reverse kinetic molecular sieving in microporous materials. Phys.
Rev. Lett., 2005, 95, 245901.
5. P. K. Ghorai, A. V. Anil Kumar, S. Sastry and S. Yashonath. Diffusion maximum as a function of size in dense liquids. Phys. Rev. E.,
2005, 72, 030202(R).
1. A. K. Mohapatra, M. G. Bason, B. Butscher, K. J. Weatherill, and C. S. Adams: A Giant electro-optic effect using polarizable dark
states, Nature Physics, 2008, 4, 890.
2. A. K. Mohapatra, T. R. Jackson, and C. S. Adams: Coherent optical detection of highly excited rydberg states using
electromagnetically induced transparency, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98, 113003.
3. R. P. Abel, A. K. Mohapatra, M. G. Bason, J. D. Pritchard, K. J. Weatherill, U. Raitzsch, and C. S. Adams: Laser frequency
stabilization to highly excited state transitions using electromagnetically induced transparency in a cascade system, Appl.
Phys. Lett. 2009, 94, 071107.
4. K. J. Weatherill, J. Pritchard, R. P. Abel, M. G. Bason, A. K. Mohapatra, and C. S. Adams: Electromagnetically induced
transparency of an interacting cold Rydberg ensemble, J. Phys. B. 2008, 41, 201002.
5. A. K. Mohapatra, and C. S. Unnikrishnan: Measurement of the van de Waals force using reflection of cold atoms from magnetic
thin-film atom mirrors, Europhys. Lett. 2006, 73, 839.
Dr. A. V. Anil Kumar is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. Ashok Mohapatra is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010
Chethan N. Gowdigere Colin BenjaminAssistant Professor
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1999 MSc. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
2005 PhD. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
2005 – 2008 Post Doc International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
2008 – 2009 RA Brandeis University, Boston, USA and Saclay, Paris.
2009 – 2010 Post Doc Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India.
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§ High-energy physics
§ Mainly string theory and it's gravitational aspects
§ black holes § ??
1. Chethan N. Gowdigere, D. Nemeschansky and N. P. Warner. Supersymmetric solutions with fluxes from algebraic Killing
spinors. Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., 2004, 7, 787.
2. Chethan N. Gowdigere. Supersymmetric flux solutions and algebraic Killing spinors PhD Thesis, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, U.S.A, 2005.
3. A. K. Balasubramanian, S. Govindarajan and Chethan N. Gowdigere. Symplectic potentials and resolved Ricci-flat ACG metrics
Class. Quantum Grav. 2007, 24, 6393-6415.
4. R. Fareghbal, Chetan N. Gowdigere, A. E. Mosaffa and M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari. Nearing 11d Extremal Intersecting Giants and New
Decoupled Sectors in D = 3,6 SCFT's. Phys. Rev. D, 2010, 81, 046005.
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Joydeep Bhattacharjee Kartikeswar SenapatiAssistant Professor
Dr. Joydeep Bhattacharjee is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of ??
Prasanjit Samal Pratap K. SahooAssistant Professor
§ Methodological developments of excited-state Density-functional theory (DFT), both static and time-dependent.
§ Nanostructures
§ Molecular Electronics
§ Center for Excellence Award for Scientific Research: KU Leuven, Belgium 2004-2005
§ Ion beam synthesis for Nanocluster
§ Optical properties of embedded nanostructure
§ Fabrication of different Micro- and Nanostructures
§ Characterization of Nanophotonic and plasmonics devices
§ FDTD Simulation of photonic/plasmonic devices
§ Modeling and design of metamaterials
1. M. K. Harbola and P. Samal, Time-independent excited-state density functional theory: study of 1s(2)2p(3)(4S) and 1s(2)2p(3)
(2D) states of Boron isoelectronic series up to Ne(5+), J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 2009, 42, 015003 .
2. M. Rahman, S. Ganguli, P. Samal, M. K. Harbola, T. Saha-Dasgupta and A. Mookerjee, A local-density approximation for the
exchange energy functional for excited states in bulk semiconductors: the band gap problem. Physica B, 2009, 4040, 1137.
3. P. Samal and M. K. Harbola, Analysis of Floquet formulation of time-dependent ensityfunctional theory, Chemical Physics
Letters, 2006, 433, 204.
4. P. Samal and M. K. Harbola, Exploring foundations of time-independent density-functional theory for excited-states, J. Phys. B:
At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 2006, 39, 4065.
5. P. Samal and M. K. Harbola and A. Holas, Density-to-potential map in time-independent excited- state density-functional
theory, Chemical Physics Letters, 2006, 419, 217. 1. Arda Kiristopuryan, Yasin Ekinci, Reto Giannini, P. K. Sahoo, Ganna Gorodyska, and Jörg F. Löffler, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2009, 95,
231903.
2. P. K. Sahoo, K. Vogelsang, H. Schift, and H. H. Solak, Applied Surface Science, 2009, 256, 431.
3. T. Sonnomiya, P. K. Sahoo, D. I. Mahcicek, H. H. Solak, C. Hafner, D. Grieshaber, and J. Vörös, Nano and Micro, 'Small', 2009, 5(9),
999.
4. V. Auzelyte, P. K. Sahoo, C. Dais, P. Farquet, D. Grützmacher, L. Heyderman, F. Luo, S. Olliges, C. Padeste, T. Thomson, A.
Turchanin, C. David, H. H. Solak, J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS, 2009, 8(2), 021204
5. Sankha S. Sarkar P. K. Sahoo, H. H. Solak, C. David, J. F. van der Veen, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 2009, 186, 012071.
Dr. Prasanjit Samal Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Dr. Pratap K. Sahoo is currently holding the position of Assistant professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2009
5. V. V. Shvartsman, S. Bedanta, P. Borisov, W. Kleemann, A. Tkach, and P. Vilarinho, (Sr,Mn)TiO – a magnetoelectric multiglass, 3
Phys. Rev. Lett., 2008, 101, 165704
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1999 MSc. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
2005 PhD. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
2005 – 2006 Post Doc University of Paris-Sud XI (Orsay), Paris, France
2006 – 2008 Post Doc Institute of Scientific Interchange, Torino, Italy
2008 – 2009 Post Doc Brandeis University, Boston, USA.
2009 – 2010 Post Doc Harish Chandra Research Institute, India.
1996-2001 M.Sc (Int.) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
2001-2007 Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
2007-2009 Post Doc Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India
2009-2010 Post Doc IPMU, University of Tokyo, Japan
§ Statistical mechanics and interdisciplinary applications
§ Classical and Quantum Physics of Black Holes, especially in String Theory
§ AdS/CFT correspondence and it's applications
§ High Energy Physics
1. A thermodynamic model for agglomeration of DNA-looping proteins, Sumedha and Martin Weigt, J. Stat. Mech., 2008,
P11005.
2. Clustering by soft-constraint affinity propagation: Applications to gene-expression data, Michele Leone, Sumedha and Martin
Weigt, Bioinformatics, 2007, 23, 2708.
3. Population size effects in evolutionary dynamics on neutral networks and toy landscapes, Sumedha, Olivier C Martin and Luca
Peliti, J. Stat. Mech., 2007, P05011.
4. Efficiency of the Incomplete Enumeration algorithm for Monte-Carlo simulation of linear and branched polymers, Sumedha
and Deepak Dhar, J.Stat. Phys., 2005, 120, 71-100.
5. Directed Branched Polymer near an Attractive Line, Sumedha, J. Phys.A:Math. Gen., 2004, 37, 3673.
1. S. D. Mathur, A. Saxena and Y. K. Srivastava, Constructing 'hair' for the three charge hole, Nucl. Phys. B, 2004, 680, 415.
2. D. Astefanesei and Y. K. Srivastava, CFT Duals for Attractor Horizons, Nucl. Phys. B, 2009, 822, 283.
3. S. Banerjee, A. Sen and Y. K. Srivastava, Partition Functions of Torsion >1 Dyons in Heterotic String Theory on T^6, JHEP, 2008,
0805, 098.
4. S. Banerjee, A.Sen and Y. K. Srivastava, Generalities of Quarter BPS Dyon Partition Function and Dyons of Torsion Two, JHEP,
2008, 0805, 101.
5. S. Giusto, S. D. Mathur and Y. K. Srivastava, A microstate for the 3-charge black ring, Nucl. Phys. B, 2007, 763, 60.
Dr. Sumedha is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010 Dr. Yogesh Srivastava is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010
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1995 B. A. IGNOU, New Delhi
1998 M. A. Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
2007 Ph. D. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur
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§ Pondicherry University Gold Medal, Pondicherry University, 1998
§ Social innovation
§ Social network analysis
§ Social representation
§ Social study of science and technology
§ Disability studies
§ ??
1. Pattanaik, D., and Chatterjee J., Services innovation - digital ecosystem approach to dissemination and co-creation of
knowledge for Indian agriculture extension services, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science
and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2009), IEEE.
2. Pattanaik, D., and Chatterjee J., Socio-technical innovation and the role of conversation in a digital ecosystem for agricultural
extension services in India, Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE DEST
2009), IEEE.
3. Pattanaik, D., and Sarkar R. (2008). “Empowering farmers in India using Kisan blog,” in The Participatory Web – New Potentials
of ICT in Rural Areas, edited by Christian Kreutz, Eschborn: gtz Knowledge System in Rural Areas.
4. Pattanaik, D and Chatterjee, J. (2008). “Sociology of digital communities – bridging the gap between theories of 'Internet
Spectatorship' and 'Rule System Theory',” in Proceedings of the Second International OPAALS Conference on Digital Ecosystems
(OPAALS 2008), edited by Ossi Nykanen, Jukka Huhtamaki, Jaakko Salonen, Seppo Pohjolainen and Kirsi Silius, Tampere:
Hypermedia Laboratory of the Tampere University of Technology.
5. Pattanaik, D., and Jha, M. (2007). “Knowledge and identity among the indigenous people,” The Oriental Anthropologist, vol.7,
no. 2:199-212.
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Dr. Debashis Pattanaik is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010 Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of ??
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