Shasanka Mohan Roy
Physics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Shasanka Mohan Roy received BSc (Hons) (1960) and MSc (Physics) (1962), both from Delhi University, and PhD (1966) from Princeton University. He worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai (1967-2006), where he was Chairman, Theoretical Physics Group Committee (1992-97), Senior Professor until 2006. He is DAE Raja Ramanna Fellow, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2006- ). He has held visiting positions at the University of California (1966-67), CERN, Geneva (1970-71, 1976, 1989, 1994, 2000), SUNY at Stony Brook (1975), CEN Saclay (1971-72), Syracuse University (1982-83, 1997), University of Lausanne (1983), University of Alberta (1991), Waseda University (1998), University of Montpellier (2002), Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Vienna (2002), MIT (2002), Ann Arbor, Michigan (2002), MSRI, Berkeley (2002), Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (2004), University of Kaiserslautern (2005), and University of York, UK (2005-06). His specialized in the areas quantum foundations, quantum information processing and elementary particle physics.
Research Interest
Foundations of Quantum Theory & Particle Physics
