Sm Chitre

Biography

Shashikumar Madhusudan Chitre obtained his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Elphinstone College, Mumbai in 1956 and was awarded the Duke of Edinburgh Fellowship of the University of Bombay. Later, he went to Peterhouse, Cambridge as a Cambridge Society of Bombay scholar to study the Mathematical Tripos. He obtained the Bachelor's degree (1959) of the University of Cambridge and was elected a scholar of Peterhouse (1960) when he moved to Churchill College on a Gulbenkian Research studentship and earned his PhD from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge (1963). He served as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds (1963-66) and later was a Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena before joining the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai (1967) from where he retired in 2001. He is currently a Distinguished faulty at the Centre of Excellence for Basic Sciences, an INSA Honorary Scientist at the University of Mumbai, Honorary Executive Director of the Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the JN Tata Endowment.

Research Interest

Theoretical Astrophysics