Rahul Pandit
Dept. of Physics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Rahul Pandit obtained an MS (Physics) from IIT Delhi and a PhD from the University of Illinois under the supervision of Michael Wortis. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics in Cornell University. He retuned to India in 1984 to join the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where he is Professor of Physics and Chairman, Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. He has held various visiting positions at the Ohio State University, University of Missouri, USA, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy, and the Observatoire de la Cote D'Azur, France.
Research Interest
Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions, Condensed Matter Theory, Spatiotemporal Chaos and Turbulence
