Echur Varadadesikan Sampathkumaran
Professor
Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Echur Varadadesikan Sampathkumaran did his BSc from University of Madras and MSc from Annamalai University. Then, he joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, where he worked for his PhD on valence fluctuations in rare-earth compounds under the supervision of R Vijayaraghavan and obtained PhD from Bombay University (1982). Continuing as Faculty Member at TIFR, he was Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellow with G Kaindl at the Free University of Berlin, where he focused on the then hot issues of valence fluctuations, and has been Visiting Professor at Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, and at many other institutions. Subsequently, he has been Honorary Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.
Research Interest
Magnetism & Superconductivity
