Utpal Sarkar
Physics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Utpal Sarkar earned the BSc and MSc degrees at Calcutta University where he also obtained the PhD working with A Raychaudhuri. Thereafter, he visited the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ASICTP), Trieste, Italy in 1983, worked with JC Pati and Abdus Salam. He then spent two years at the University of Texas and one year at the University of Toronto, as postdoctoral fellow. He joined the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai as Assistant Professor (1987) and then moved to the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) after one year.
Research Interest
Theoretical Particle and Astroparticle Physics
