Sunil Mukhi
Physics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Sunil Mukhi earned his BSc (1976) from St Xavier's College, University of Bombay and PhD (1981) in Theoretical Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. After spending two years at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) at Trieste, Italy, as a post-doctoral Fellow, he returned to India to join the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (1984). He moved to IISER Pune in 2012 as Coordinator, Physics Programme. He spent a sabbatical year each at CERN, Geneva and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and has been invited as a Visiting Fellow Commoner to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was one of the organisers of the six-month `Branes in String and M-theory' programme held at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge in 2012.
Research Interest
Theoretical High Energy Physics, String Theory
