T V RAMAKRISHNAN
Distinguished Associate
 Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560010
(DAE Homi Bhabha Professor, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005)

 
     Educational Background
  • B.Sc. with Honours in Physics and Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 1959
  • M.Sc. in Physics, Banaras Hindu University, 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 Professor (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 2003- present.)
  •  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, May-Sept. 2004
  •  Honorary Fellow, TIFR, Mumbai, India, Aug. 2004-present.
  • Honorary Distinguished Professor, IIT Kanpur, Oct. 2004-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.

        Fellow

  • 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, (India), 1993.
  •  Royal Society (London), 2000.
  •  Institute of Physics, UK, 2000.
  •  Foreign Associate, Academy of Sciences (Paris), 2005.

        Awards

  •  Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Physical Sciences, CSIR, India, 1982.
  •  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.

      Lectureship

  • K S Krishnan Award Lecture, Indian National Science Academy, 1997
  • Meghnad Saha Memorial Lecture, National Academy of Sciences, India, 2001
    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).

       Member, Scientific Council

  •  International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1994-2003).
  •  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-present)
  •  Inter University Consortium, Indore, (2001-2003).
  •  Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, (2004-present)
  •  Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (2005-present).
  •  Member, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge MA, USA, 1994-present.
  •  Vice-President, Indian National Science Academy, 2000-2003.
  •  Padma Sri, President of India, 2001.
  •  President, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2004-2006.