Educational Background B.Sc. with Honours in Physics and Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 1959 M.Sc. in Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 1961 Ph.D. in Physics, Columbia University, New York, USA, 1966        Professional Career CSIR Junior Research Fellow, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 1961-62.  Lecturer in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Oct. 1966-March 1967. Assistant Professor, March 1967- Dec. 1967.  Assistant Research Physicist, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA, Jan. 1968 -July 1970.   Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Sept. 1970 - Oct.1977.  Professor, IIT Kanpur, Oct. 1977- July 1980.  Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, Aug. 1978- Sept.1981.  Consultant, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, July 1980-Sept.1981.  Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Oct.1981- Aug.1984.  Coordinator, Research Programme on Disorder, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Aug. 1983- Dec.1983.  Professor, Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Aug. 1984- April 1986.  Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, April 1986-Aug. 2003.  Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Physicist, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, 1990-1991.  Consultant, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, 1990-1991.  Honorary Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, 1993- present.  INSA Srinivasa Ramanujan Research Professor, 1997-2002.  Rothschild Visiting Professor, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, May-June, 2000.  DAE Homi Bhabha Chair Professor (held in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2003-2008)  Distinguished Associate, Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2003-present.  Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, and Visiting Professor, Cambridge University, 2004.   Honorary Distinguished Professor, IIT Kanpur, Oct. 2004-2006.  Emeritus Professor, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 2006-present.  Hindustan Lever Research Professor,  JNCASR, 2008- 2012 NCBS-TIFR Distinguished Research Professor, 2012-2013 Year of Science Professor, DST, 2013- present.   Distinctions  etc.. Devasthale Prize in Physics, 1959. Higgins Fellow, Columbia University, New York, 1962-63; President's Fellow, Columbia University, 1963-66. Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2004.                 Fellowship Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore), 1980. Indian National Science Academy (New Delhi), 1984. American Physical Society (USA), 1984. Third World Academy of Sciences (Trieste, Italy), 1991. National Academy of Sciences (Allahabad), 1993. Royal Society (London), UK, 2000. Institute of Physics, UK, 2000. Honorary Fellow, TIFR, Mumbai, 2004. Foreign Associate, Academie des Sciences (Paris), France,2005. Honorary Associate, IACS,Kolkata, 2006.             Awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Physical Sciences, CSIR, India, 1984. Third World Academy of Sciences Award in Physics, 1990. Mahendralal Sircar Award for Physical Sciences, 1994. Alumni Award for Excellence in Research, Indian Institute of Science, 1997.  Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Science, MP Council for Science and Technology, 1999. C V Raman Centenary Medal, Indian Science Congress, 2001. Padma Sri, President of India, 2001. Meghnad Saha Medal, Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2002. Distinguished Materials Scientist of the Year, Materials Research Society of India, 2004. Goyal Prize in Physics, Kurukshetra, 2004. Trieste Science Prize, 2005. G M Modi Award in Science, 2008. R K Firodia Award in Science, 2012           Lectureship K S Krishnan Award Lecture, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, 1997 Meghnad Saha Memorial Lecture, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, 2001 National Professor, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2010-12. Invited speaker at many international professional conferences, including Nobel Symposium 73 (Graftvallen, Sweden, June 1988) on Physics of Low-Dimensional Systems Critical Problems in Physics, a conference to commemorate 250 years of  Princeton University, Aug. 1996 Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics, a conference in honour of P W Anderson, Aspen, USA, Jan. 2000. Frontiers in Physics: Fortieth Anniversary of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, Oct. 4-5, 2004.           Member, Editorial Board International Journal of Modern Physics (World Scientific Pub. Co. Singapore); Physica B (North Holland, Amsterdam);   Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (IOP, UK; 1991-94); Physical Review B (APS, New York, 1993-98), European Journal of Physics (IOP, UK).                Membership (etc.), Scientific Council International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1994-2003). Member, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge MA, USA, 1994-present.   Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi (1994-2000) Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, (1995-2003) Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi, (1995-2000) Centre for Liquid Crystals Research, Bangalore, (1996- 2004) Vice-President, Indian National Science Academy, 2000-2003. Inter University Consortium, Indore, (2001-2003). Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, (2004-2008) President, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2004-2006 Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (2005-present)