Abhijit Sen

Biography

Abhijit Sen obtained his BSc from St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, and his MS and PhD from the University of Tennessee. After a year of postdoctoral work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he returned to India and joined the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad as a faculty member in the Plasma Physics Group. He worked at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Visiting Scientist (1976-78) and carried out research on 'radio frequency heating of tokamaks'. He moved to the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar (1986), where he is currently Raman Professor and Dean of the Institute.

Research Interest

Plasma Physics and Non Linear Dynamics