Kare Narain Pathak
Department of Physics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Kare Narain Pathak received BSc from Agra University, MSc from Allahabad University and PhD (1967) from IIT Kanpur. After a brief stint as Lecturer at IIT Bombay, he was postdoctoral fellow (1967-70) at National Research Council, Canada and NorthWestern University, Evanston. Thereafter, he was Reader (1970-77) and Professor (1977-2001) in the Department of Physics, Punjab University, Chandigarh. He was Associate-Member/Senior-Associate-Member at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (1972-77, 1992-98); Visiting Professor, NorthWestern University (1979); Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Senior Fellow, Technical University, Munchen, (1977-79), and Visiting Professor, Lake Head University, Canada (1983-91) (intermittently), Freie University, Berlin (2006-08), etc. He also worked as Head, Department of Physics (1989-92), Dean, University Instructions (1993-95), Dean, Faculty of Science (1996-99), and Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University (2000-06).
Research Interest
Condensed Matter Physics / Solid State Physics
