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Prof. Arun Kumar Pati

Prof. Arun Kumar Pati has joined the Centre for Quantum Science and Technology (CQST)  as  a Professor.

Prof. Arun Kumar Pati is an Indian physicist notable for his research in quantum information and computation, the theory of geometric phases and its applications, as well as foundations of quantum mechanics. He has made pioneering contributions in the area of quantum information.

Originally from the state of Odisha in India, Prof. Pati obtained Ph.D from the University of Bombay, Mumbai. In 1989, he took up a position as a theoretical physicist in the Theoretical Physics Division, BARC, Mumbai. Since 1989, he has been working on quantum theory, quantum computing and quantum information. From 1998 to 2000, he was a visiting scientist and an EPSRC fellow at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK. He was a visiting scientist at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar from 2001 to 2010. He was a professor of quantum information at the Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India since 2011. He was honored with K P Chair Professorship at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China during the period 2013–2015. He is an adjunct professor at IISER, Mohali.

Prof. Pati is the recipient of the India Physics Association Award for Young Physicist of the Year (2000) and the Indian Physical Society Awards for Young Scientists (1996). He is also a recipient of the Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award for the year 2009 from Orissa Bigyan Academy, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He is an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore. He also has been elected as the Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India in 2013. He received the J C Bose Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India in 2019. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Berhampur University, Odisha on its 55th Foundation Day in 2021.

His important research work has been featured in news items in Nature, Nature Asia and Science. Prof. Pati has been in the World Rank list of Top 2% Scientists recently published by Stanford University. He is also among the Top 1% Scientists in General Physics and holds First position among Indian Scientists in General Physics.

January 2023