Biography

Dr. Shankhadeep Chakrabortty is affiliated to the Department of Physics, IIT Ropar as an Assistant Professor since 1st December, 2016. His broad research interest is String Theory, AdS/CFT correspondence, Quantum Field Theory. He accomplished his PhD degree in 2013 from Institute of Physics(IOP), Bhubaneswar. After that he joined as a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai. Then he was a postdoctoral fellow in the string theory group at IISER-Pune. After that, with Erasmus Mundus-Namaste postdoctoral fellowship, he joined Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity, University of Groningen,  Netherlands. Before joining IIT Ropar as an Assistant Professor, he was a postdoctoral fellow in IIT Kanpur.

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Area of Research

String theory

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Education

• Ph.D., Institute of Physics(IOP), Bhubaneswar, 2013.
• M.Sc., University of Calcutta,Kolkata, 2005.
• B.Sc., University of Calcutta,Kolkata, 2002

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Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, December 2016-present.
• Post-doctoral Fellow, IIT Kanpur, India, 2016
• Post-doctoral Fellow, Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2016
• Erasmus Mundus Post-doctoral Fellow, Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2015
• Post-doctoral Fellow, IISER-Pune, India, 2014-2015
• Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Sciences(IMSc), India, 2012-2014.
• Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Physics(IOP), India, 2007-2012.
• Junior Research Fellow, Institute of Physics(IOP), India, 2005-2007.

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