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Sunandan Gangopadhyay

Assistant Professor
Dept: Physical Sciences(DPS)
E-mail: sunandan [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
  • Noncommutative quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, physics of black holes, gauge gravity correspondence, generalized uncertainty principle and black hole thermodynamics


Academic Background:
  1. Ph.D (Physics), S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (2008)
  2. M.Sc (Physics), S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (2003)
  3. B.Sc (Physics), St.Xavier's College, Calcutta (2001)


Positions:
  1. Post doctoral fellow, National Institute for Theoretical Physics (NITheP), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa (2008-2009)
  2. Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata (2009-2016)
  3. Visiting Academic, National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa (2013-2014)
  4. Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata (2016-till date)


Awards and Honors:
  1. Awarded Visiting Associateship in “Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India” for a period of three years from 1st July, 2014 to 30th June 2017
  2. Awarded a Visiting Academic position in “National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa” for a period of one year from 1st July, 2013 to 30th June 2014
  3. Awarded Visiting Associateship in “Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India” for a period of three years from 1st July, 2011 to 30th June 2014
  4. Awarded Visiting Associateship in “Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India” for a period of three years from 27th July, 2009 to 26th July 2012
  5. Awarded a Post doctoral fellowship in “National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa” in 2008 for a period of two years


Selected Publications:
  1. Debabrata Ghorai, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, “Noncommutative effects of spacetime on holographic superconductors”, Phys.Lett.B 758 (2016) 106.
  2. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, “Path integral action and exact renormalization group dualities for quantum systems in noncommutative plane”, Euro.Phys.Lett.110 (2015) 51002.
  3. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Frederik G. Scholtz, “Noncommutativity from exact renormalization group dualities”, Phys.Rev.D 90 (2014) 047702.