Tv Ramakrishnan

Biography

Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan did his BSc (1959) and MSc (Physics) (1961) from Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He obtained PhD from Columbia University under the mentorship of JM Luttinger while working on the theory of transport properties of metals. He worked at IIT Kanpur as Faculty Member (1966-68) and then did postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego (1968-70) on several many-electron phenomena in solids. He rejoined IIT Kanpur in 1970 and continued to work there till 1978, first as Assistant Professor and then as Professor. He spent three years (1978-81) at Princeton University and Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA and collaborated with PW Anderson during this period. Thereafter, he joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where an internationally outstanding school of theoretical condensed matter physics was built up and a Centre for Condensed Matter Theory started in 1998. He returned to his alma mater, BHU (2003) as DAE Homi Bhabha Chair Professor, also received DSc (hc) (2004) from the BHU. He is now Emeritus Professor and Hindustan Lever Research Professor of the JNCASR in BHU. He is also a Distinguished Associate, Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, IISc and is associated with the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore..

Research Interest

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical Mechanics