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Dr. Krishnakanta Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor, Department of General Sciences (Physics)
Education
July 2015 - Aug 2020:Ph.D. scholar at IIT Guwahati; Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Bibhas Ranjan Majhi June 2013- July 2015:  M.Sc. (Physics) at Visva Bharati University June 2010 - May 2013: B.Sc. (Physics) at Visva Bharati University
Dubai Campus

WELCOME

Hi, I am Krishna kanta Bhattacharya, you can call me Krish. I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of General Science (Physics) at BITS Pilani Dubai Campus. I work on various aspects of gravitation and cosmology, with special emphasis on those areas which tries to interpret gravitation as an emergent phenomenon -  such as black hole thermodynamics and fluid-gravity correspondence. My work ranges from general relativity to various modified theories of gravity; such as the scalar-tensor gravity, f(R) gravity, Lanczos-Lovelock gravity and so on. I did my Ph.D. in IIT Guwahati under the guidance of Prof. Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, one of the most well-known scientists in India in this direction. I also had a brief opportunity to work with the eminent Professor T. Padmanabhan - an Indian legend in theoretical physics. My academic journey has been briefly discussed in the following.

Academic Journey

  • Aug 2024 - Present:            Assistant Professor (Physics), Dept. of General Science, BITS-Pilani, Dubai Campus
  • Dec 2022 - Jul 2024:          JSPS Postdoctoral fellow;  Advisor: Prof. Kazuharu Bamba
  • May 2022 - Dec 2022:        Postdoctoral fellow at IACS Kolkata; Advisor: Prof: Sumanta Chakraborty
  • Sept 2020 - May 2022:       Postdoctoral Fellow at IUCAA Pune; Advisor: Late Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan
  • July 2019 - Feb 2020:         Fulbright visiting scholar at California State University Fresno; Advisor: Prof. Douglas Singleton