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Prasanta Kumar Das

Professor of Physics | Associate Dean Faculty Affairs Division

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Prasanta Kumar DAS

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D-320/18 (New Academic Building)

91-832-2580-448(O)

pdas@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa campus, NH-17B, Zuarinagar, Goa-403726

Biographical sketch:

I have obtained my Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Kanpur in 2003 in the area of High Energy Physics Phenomenology. After that I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harish-Chandra Research Institute(HRI),Allahabad from 2002 to 2004, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan from 2004 to 2005 and Institute of Mathematical Science(IMSc), Chennai from 2005 to 2007. I joined the Physics department of BITS Pilani, K K Birla campus in July, 2007.

Teaching:

In this semester, I am teaching the following courses: (i) Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics and (ii) Mechanics, Oscillations and Waves (Teaching).

Research interests:

I work in the area of High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology. I am interested in (i) Looking for the signatures of New Physics (e.g. dark matter, extra dimension(s), space-time noncommutativity, supersymmetry) in ground based and astrophysical laboratories, (ii) On early universe cosmology - inflation, modified gravity theories, (iii) Gravitational wave and its detection and (iv) Quantum memory.

My PhD students (click) - Research impact- Google scholar (click) - Research publication - inspire-hep.

Research support:

Funding agencies which have supported my research activities time to time

SERB, DST, Government of India
CSIR, Government of India
DAE, BRNS, Government of India
DST Fast Track Project, Government of India.

Administrative responsibilities:

Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs Division, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus.

Professional accomplishments:

Visiting Associate, IUCAA, Pune 2022.
Member of the Executive Council of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) - India consortium
Reviewer of EMR grants sponsored by DST SERB.
Reviewer of European Physical Journal C ( Area: Particles & Nuclear Physics)
Reviewer of International Journal of High Energy Physics
Reviewer of Advances in High Energy Physics, Hindawi Publishing Group
Reviewer of the Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. (Area: High Energy Physics & Astrophysics
Reviewer of Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

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