M Lakshmanan
Department of Theoretical Physics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
M Lakshmanan earned his BSc from NGM College, Pollachi and MSc from Madras Christian College. He carried out his doctoral research in nonlinear dynamics at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Madras (1970-74) under the supervision of PM Mathews. He then spent a year at the University of Tuebingen, as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation post-doctoral Fellow and another year at Eindhoven University. He was a Royal Society Nuffield Foundation Fellow at University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (1979-80); Visiting Guest Scientist, University of Uppasala (1981); and JSPS Fellow at Kyoto University (1984-85). He has also held several short-term Visiting positions in many countries from time to time. Lakshmanan joined the Department of Physics, Bharathidasan University (then Autonomous Postgraduate Centre of University of Madras), Tiruchirapalli (1978) as a Reader He became Professor (1984) and served as Head of the Department of Physics (1992-2006), when he was made Professor of Eminence.
Research Interest
Nonlinear Dynamics & Theoretical Physics
