धर्म एव हतो हन्ति धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः
तस्माद्धर्मो न हन्तव्यो मा नो धर्मो हतोऽवधीत् ॥

Degrees

Oct, 2018 — May, 2022

Institute for Theoretical Physics (LUH), Hannover

I got my PhD in Theoretical Physics from LUH under the supervision of Olaf Lechtenfeld with generous support from DAAD. My thesis "Solutions of Yang–Mills theory in 4 dimensional de Sitter space" is based on classical gauge theory.

Jul, 2015 — May, 2018

Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata

I graduated from IISER-K with a Masters degree in Physics of the Integrated PhD program. This 3-year intensive training proved greatly beneficial to me with regular/niche course-works in Physics/Maths, & many other useful skills.

Jul, 2010 — May, 2015

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi

I have Bachelor & Master of Technology degrees, that I got following a 5 year program of the Biochemical Engineering school at IIT-BHU. As a side hustle, I kept nurturing my theoretical physics interests through, mostly, self-learning.

Teaching

Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz University Hannover

  1. At the end of summer semester, 2020 I conducted another intensive revision course (lectures+excercises) on Introduction to Quantum Theory.

  2. I conducted an intensive 1-week revision course (lectures+excercises) on Mathematical Methods of Physics at the end of winter semester, 2019-20.

  3. I assisted (exercises+2 lectures) the Lie groups, Algebra and their Representations course by my supervisor, Olaf Lechtenfeld, during summer semester, 2019.

Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata

  1. I assisted (assignments) the Advanced Mathematical Methods of Physics course by Sunandan Gangopadhyay during autumn semester, 2017.

  2. I assisted (excercises+assignments) the Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism course by Ananda Dasgupta during spring semester, 2017.

Scholarships

I am really grateful to following scholarships/fellowships for facilitating my academic journey so far!

I presently hold the DFG Walter-Benjamin research grant, to work on "Particle physics from Quantum Riemannian Geometry" at QMU London, with Shahn Majid. More details on the scope of the project can be found here.

I was one of the recipient of doctoral fellowship program by Deutscher Academischer Austaushdienst (DAAD) in 2018, that funded my PhD in Hannover, following a brief German-learning stint in Berlin.

In 2016, I secured the Junior Research Fellowship of the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) after qualifying the national eligibility test (NET), that funded me during Oct, 2016 – May, 2018 at IISER-K.

I was in the Super-30 program (for intensive IIT-JEE preparation) of 2009-10. It's founder, Anand Kumar, is a mathematician with remarkable teaching skills and is very well known.

I was at JNV, Ranchi during 2008-09, participating in a program organised by Dakshana Foundation (a non-profit). My fascination for sciences, especially physics started from there.