Sumanta Chakraborty

Sumanta Chakraborty is currently a National Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, India. He has received the Ph.D degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University on 23rd February, 2017. The title of his PhD thesis is “Classical and Quantum Aspects of Gravity in Relation to The Emergent Paradigm”.

Throughout school, college and university he has won numerous prizes and scholarships. He has received most prestigious fellowships in India throughout his career (the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Fellowship, the Satyendra Nath Bose Memorial Prize, the KVPY fellowship and the INSPIRE fellowship). He has also received the INFN Fellowship from Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics and the National Post Doctoral Fellowship from SERB, Government of India for his post-doctoral research. His Doctoral research has won him V.V. Narlikar Best Thesis Award from IAGRG, India. Further, his essay has received honorable mention in 2016 gravity essay competition.

During his research career, he has published fourty one research papers and one invited review in refereed international journals. His thesis has been published by Springer in its series “ Springer Theses”. Besides, he has published a chapter in the book Gravity and the Quantum by Springer. He has also organized one national conference.