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Safwan Amir, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad Univeristy

Safwan Amir

Assistant Professor

PhD (Madras Institute of Development Studies)

Research Interests: Anthropology of religion; sociology of caste; anthropology of ethics, historical anthropology; ethnography; Indian Ocean; Islam and South Asia.

Pramath Anamby, Assistant Professor

Pramath Anamby

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)

Research Interests: Modular and automorphic forms, Analytic number theory, Analytical aspects of modular forms and L-functions

Kunal Basu, Distinguished Professor of Humanities | Ahmedabad University

Kunal Basu

Distinguished Professor of Humanities

PhD (University of Florida)

Mary Ann Chacko, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Mary Ann Chacko

Assistant Professor

EdD (Teachers College, Columbia University)

Research Interests: Critical Childhood and Youth Studies, Gender, Citizenship, Ethnography

Sudeep Chakravarti, Professor of Practice, Ahmedabad University

Sudeep Chakravarti

Professor of Practice and Chair, Communication Programme

BA (Honours) (Delhi University)

Research Interests: Foreign Policy, South Asian Affairs, Indian Ocean Affairs, Geo-economics, Internal Security, Intersection of Democracy and Development, Northeast India, Eastern South Asia, Intersection of Business and Human Rights

Kasturi Chatterjee, Assistant Professor

Kasturi Chatterjee

Assistant Professor

PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Research Interests: International Relations Theory, International Organisations, Historical Justice, Genocide and Genocide Denial

Aditya Chaturvedi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aditya Chaturvedi

Assistant Professor

PhD (Emory University)

Research Interests: Indian Intellectual History of the late Second Millennium (Vaiṣṇava Vedānta, Puṣṭimārga), Religious Studies, Bhakti Studies, Tantra, and South Asian Art History

Samyaday Choudhury, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Samyaday Choudhury

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)

Research Interests: Stellar populations, extragalactic star formation, stellar evolution, galaxy evolution, big data analysis in astronomy

Suchismita Das, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Suchismita Das

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Chicago)

Research Interests: Anthropology of the State, Conservation and Development, Climate Change, Tourism, Indigeneity, Borders and Frontiers, Multispecies Ethnography, Environmental History.

Kathyayini Das, Assistant Professor

Kathyayini Dash

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Cape Town)

Research Interests: Interdisciplinary Artistic Research, Practice-as-research and Practice-based Research Methodology in Theatre and Performance, Archive Studies, Migration Studies, Embodiment Studies, Decolonial Studies, Affect Studies

Deepan Sivaraman

Deepan Sivaraman

Professor

MA (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)

Research Interests: Theatre as a Form of Knowledge Production, Theatre of Scenography, Post-Dramatic Theatre

Aditi Deo, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aditi Deo

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indiana University)

Research Interests: Performance Practice, Technologies, Pedagogies, Circulation And Heritage.

Manomohini Dutta, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Manomohini Dutta

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Texas at Austin)

Research Interests: Pre-Modern Indian History, Law and Religion, Hindu Legal Traditions and Sanskrit.

Nithin George, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Nithin George

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Visual attention, Perception, Psychophysics, Perceptual Learning

Ratna Ghosal, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ratna Ghosal

Associate Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Research Interests: Ecology, Animal Behavior, Conservation Biology.

Soumen Ghosh, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Soumen Ghosh

Assistant Professor

PhD (Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Atomic molecular and plasma physics, Trap electron, positron and ion beam physics.

Gaurav Goswami, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Gaurav Goswami

Assistant Professor

PhD (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune)

Research Interests: Issues at the interface of Fundamental Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics

Raghwinder Singh Grewal, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Raghwinder Singh Grewal

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)

Research Interests: Atomic Magnetometry, Quantum Sensing, Nonlinear-Optics

Aarzoo Gupta, Visiting Professor

Aarzoo Gupta

Visiting Professor

PhD (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology)

Research Interests: Cognitive processes, metacognition, emotion regulation, psychotherapy process and outcome, sexual and gender minorities, and mental health.

Maya Jasanoff, Visiting Professor | Ahmedabad University

Maya Jasanoff

Visiting Professor

PhD (Yale University)

Murari Kumar Jha, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Murari Kumar Jha

Assistant Professor

PhD (Leiden University)

Research Interests: Economy, Empire, Institutions, River, Indian Ocean, Environmental Changes

Chetkar Jha, Assistant Professor

Chetkar Jha

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Missouri)

Research Interests: Bayesian Analysis, Network Analysis, High-Dimensional Data Analysis

Jitesh Jhawar, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Jitesh Jhawar

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)

Research Interests: Animal Behaviour, Collective Behaviour, Self Organisation, Ecology and Evolution, Population Dynamics, Mathematical Modelling, Theoretical Ecology

Pankaj Joshi, Distinguished Professor of Physics | Ahmedabad University

Pankaj Joshi

Distinguished Professor of Physics; Director, International Centre for Space and Cosmology

PhD (Bhavnagar University)

Research Interests: General Relativity and Cosmology

Ashutosh Kumar, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ashutosh Kumar

Associate Professor

PhD (Integral University)

Research Interests: Nanobiotechnology, DNA Biochip, Environmental Biotechnology And Nanotoxicology.

Apaar Kumar, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Apaar Kumar

Associate Professor

PhD (Emory University)

Research Interests: History of Modern Philosophy (especially Kant), Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, Ethics

Darshini Mahadevia, Professor | Ahmedabad University

Darshini Mahadevia

Professor

PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Research Interests: Urban Studies, Human And Gender Development, Poverty And Inequality And Climate Change.

Pinaki Majumdar, Professor

Pinaki Majumdar

Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Research Interests: Condensed Matter Theory- Magnetism, Superconductivity, Metal-insulator Transitions, Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena

Khusdeep Kaur Malhotra, Assistant Professor

Khusdeep Kaur Malhotra

Assistant Professor

PhD (Temple University)

Research Interests: Precarity and Belonging, Geographies of Political Violence, Spatiality of Religion, Production of Geographic Knowledge

Leya Mathew, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Leya Mathew

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Research Interests: Liberalization and aspiration, mothering, youth, gender, migration, techno-science

Eshita Mazumdar, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Eshita Mazumdar

Assistant Professor

PhD (Homi Bhabha National Institute, Harish Chandra Research Institute)

Research Interests: Additive Combinatorics, Algebraic Combinatorics, Extremal Combinatorics, Combinatorial Number Theory, Diophantine Equations

Mona Mehta, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Arts | Ahmedabad University

Mona Mehta

Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Arts

PhD (University of Chicago)

Research Interests: Urban transformations and the remaking of city spaces, Youth aspirations and Skill development discourses, Democracy and its vulnerabilities and the political thought of M. K. Gandhi

Rachna Mishra, Assistant Professor

Rachna Mishra

Assistant Professor

PhD (Delhi University)

Research Interests: Resilience, Child Protection, Psychosocial Interventions for Youth, Positive Youth Development

Shomen Mukherjee, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Shomen Mukherjee

Associate Professor

PhD (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Research Interests: Species Coexistence, Disease Ecology, Life-history Evolution

Sutapa Mukherji, Professor | Ahmedabad University

Sutapa Mukherji

Professor

PhD (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)

Research Interests: Complex Systems and Biological Physics

Rajesh Naidu Assistant Professor Ahmedabad University

Rajesh Naidu

Assistant Professor

Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts/Painting (Indiana State University)

Research Interests: representational art, observational art, visual arts, painting, human condition, figurative art, human figure, realism

Tejaswini Niranjana, Visiting Professor | Ahmedabad University

Tejaswini Niranjana

Visiting Professor

PhD (UCLA)

Research Interests: Cultural theory, gender studies, cultural history of Indian music, Inter-Asia studies, translation theory

Keita Omi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Keita Omi

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Utah)

Research Interests: International Relations (IR), Government Secrecy, Comparative Politics (CP), Asian Politics (Myanmar and India), Ethnography, Political Psychology, Undergraduate Pedagogy

Ashwin Pande, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ashwin Pande

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science & University of Maryland)

Research Interests: Topological T-duality, Mathematical Physics and String Theory, Pattern Formation and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Visualization, Numerical Physics and Visualization

Shilpa Pandit, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Shilpa Pandit

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Madras)

Research Interests: Leveraging technology for mental health in rural India, lay counselors for health, vulnerability and flourishing among adolescents and youth, social entrepreneurs/change makers among youth, music and the sense of surprise/wonder/awe/adbhuta, visualization and meditation, the phenomenology of being ‘present’/‘ here and now’, neuro-phenomenology of advanced meditation states.

Bhuvan Pathak, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Bhuvan Pathak

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Arkansas)

Research Interests: Plant Genetic Engineering, Genome Editing

Pravakar Paul, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Pravakar Paul

Assistant Professor

PhD (The University of lowa)

Research Interests: Quantum Topology, Algebra, Algebraic Topology

Balaji Prakash, Associate Dean, Sciences & Professor | Ahmedabad University

Balaji Prakash

Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Research Interests: Structural Biologist, Besides Basic Science, His Interest In Interdisciplinary Research Led To Fascinating Applications Across Disciplines, For Example The Use Of Bacteria And Yeast For The Printing And Fabrication Of Electronic Circuits, Micro Lenses For Oleds And Braille Printing On Ordinary Paper, And Designing / Re-Engineering Antibodies For Pharmaceutical Companies.

Ashim Rai, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ashim Rai

Assistant Professor

PhD (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Research Interests: Cytoskeleton, Single-molecule Biophysics, FRET Biosensors, DNA Origami

Subhash Rajpurohit, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Subhash Rajpurohit

Associate Professor

PhD (Maharshi Dayanand University)

Research Interests: Species, Climate Warming, and Evolution

Aparajith Ramnath, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aparajith Ramnath

Associate Professor

PhD (Imperial College London)

Research Interests: History of science and technology, history of engineers, business history, South Asian history

Raghavan Rangarajan, Professor, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences | Ahmedabad University

Raghavan Rangarajan

Professor & Dean

PhD (University of California)

Research Interests: Cosmology And Particle Physics

Chakravarthi Rangarajan, Distinguished University Professor | Ahmedabad University

Chakravarthi Rangarajan

Distinguished University Professor

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Maya Ratnam, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Maya Ratnam

Assistant Professor

PhD (Johns Hopkins University)

Research Interests: Environmental History And Anthropology of India, With Particular Reference To Indigenous And Resource-Dependent Communities.

Rama Ratnam, Professor | Ahmedabad University

Rama Ratnam

Professor

PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Research Interests: Neuroscience, Brain And Behavior, Sensory Processing, Neural Engineering.

Balachandran Ravindran, Visiting Professor | Ahmedabad University

Balachandran Ravindran

Visiting Professor

PhD (University of Delhi)

Research Interests: Life Sciences, Microbiology, Immunology and Parasite Biology.

Nagireddy Neelakanteswar Reddy, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Nagireddy Neelakanteswar Reddy

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Evolutionary Psychology, Experimental Folk-psychology

Ranu Roychoudhuri, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ranu Roychoudhuri

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Chicago)

Research Interests: History of Photography; Global Modernism; Contemporary Art; Intellectual History of Art; Art Historiography; Modern South Asia; Postcolonial Studies

Manjil Saikia, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Manjil Saikia

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Vienna, Austria)

Research Interests: Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics, q-Series and Integer Partitions, Elementary Number Theory, Theoretical Computer Science

Neeraja Sankaran, Visiting Professor

Neeraja Sankaran

Visiting Professor

PhD (Yale University)

Research Interests: History of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, including History of Virology, History of Biology, History of Virus Research, History of Immunology, History of Molecular Biology, History of Disease, and Historiography of Science, including Scientific Biography and Autobiography, Oral History

Rahul Sarwate, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Rahul Sarwate

Assistant Professor

PhD (Columbia University)

Research Interests: Intellectual and Cultural History, Social History, Religion and Society, Modern South Asia, Translation Studies, Public Histories, Marathi Language

Rucha Sarwate, Assistant Professor of Practice | Ahmedabad University

Rucha Sarwate

Assistant Professor of Practice

PhD (Savitribai Phule Pune University)

Research Interests: Clinical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Psychodiagnostics, Mindfulness and Presence-Based Approaches of Psychotherapy, Buddhist Psychology

Shishir Saxena, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Shishir Saxena

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Cambridge)

Research Interests: Indian Philosophy (darśanaśāstra), Sanskrit, Epics (Rāmāyaṇa & Mahābhārata)

Souvik Sen Gupta, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Souvik Sen Gupta

Associate Professor & Assistant Dean

PhD (Jadavpur University)

Research Interests: Anti-Leishmanial Therapeutics, Molecular Parasitology, DNA Damage And Repair, Biochemistry

Shashi Kant Shankar, Assistant Professor

Shashi Kant Shankar

Assistant Professor

PhD (Tallinn University, Estonia)

Research Interests: Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching, (Multimodal) Learning Analytics, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Educational Technology

Ayesha Sheth, Assistant Professor

Ayesha Sheth

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Research Interests: Early Modern History, Courtly Cultures, Performance Studies, Mercantile Networks, Indigenous Histories, Early Modern Literatures

Ritesh Shukla, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ritesh Shukla

Associate Professor

PhD (Jamia Hamdard)

Research Interests: Nanobiotechnology (Forensic Nanotechnology, Forensic Biotechnology), Toxicology (Nanotoxicology), DNA Forensics, Food Forensics, Point Of Care/Detection Diagnostic Devices.

Alok Shukla, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Alok Shukla

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Oklahoma)

Research Interests: Modular Forms, Automorphic Forms And Representations, Quantum Computing.

Ramadhar Singh, Distinguished University Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ramadhar Singh

Distinguished University Professor

PhD (Purdue University)

Research Interests: Organisational Behavior, Psychology, Public Policy, Research Methods.

Divita Singh, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Divita Singh

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Visual Attention, Emotion-induced Blindness, Self-bias, Working Memory

Charu Singh, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Charu Singh

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Delhi)

Research Interests: Vernacular Archives and Manuscripts, Medieval Indian Literature, Literary Historiography , Women’s history

Neelanjan Sircar, Associate Professor

Neelanjan Sircar

Associate Professor

PhD (Columbia University)

Research Interests: Political Behaviour, Elections, Welfare Delivery, Political Economy, Applied Statistics

Lakshmi Sreeram, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Lakshmi Sreeram

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Mumbai)

Research Interests: Indian Music, Epistemology of Raga, Rasa theory, Epistemology of Rasa.

Krishna Swamy, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Krishna Swamy

Associate Professor

PhD (Academia Sinica)

Research Interests: Evolutionary Systems Biology, Genetics And Molecular Biology, Computational Biology, Comparative Genomics.

Vivek Tanavde, Associate Dean of the Undergraduate College | Ahmedabad University

Vivek Tanavde

Associate Professor; Associate Dean of the Undergraduate College

PhD (Mumbai University)

Research Interests: Adult Stem Cells, miRNA Regulation Of Cell Differentiation, Cancer Biomarkers, Connecting Transcriptome To Cellular Phenotype.

Susanta Tewari, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Susanta Tewari

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Georgia)

Research Interests: Computational Biology, Statistical Genetics, and Computational Population Genetics

Noopur Thakur, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Noopur Thakur

Associate Professor

PhD (Uppsala University)

Research Interests: Signaling, Cancer And Epigenetics.

Aditya Vaishya, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aditya Vaishya

Assistant Professor

PhD (National University of Ireland)

Research Interests: Air quality, Air Pollution, Climate Change, Aerosol Instrumentation

Guillaume Wadia, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Guillaume Wadia

Assistant Professor

PhD (Harvard University)

Research Interests: History of France and its Colonial Empire, Modern Europe, History of the Indian Ocean, Environmental, Military, and Business History

Ratna Ghosal, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ratna Ghosal

Associate Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Research Interests: Ecology, Animal Behavior, Conservation Biology.

Jitesh Jhawar, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Jitesh Jhawar

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)

Research Interests: Animal Behaviour, Collective Behaviour, Self Organisation, Ecology and Evolution, Population Dynamics, Mathematical Modelling, Theoretical Ecology

Ashutosh Kumar, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ashutosh Kumar

Associate Professor

PhD (Integral University)

Research Interests: Nanobiotechnology, DNA Biochip, Environmental Biotechnology And Nanotoxicology.

Shomen Mukherjee, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Shomen Mukherjee

Associate Professor

PhD (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Research Interests: Species Coexistence, Disease Ecology, Life-history Evolution

Bhuvan Pathak, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Bhuvan Pathak

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Arkansas)

Research Interests: Plant Genetic Engineering, Genome Editing

Balaji Prakash, Associate Dean, Sciences & Professor | Ahmedabad University

Balaji Prakash

Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Research Interests: Structural Biologist, Besides Basic Science, His Interest In Interdisciplinary Research Led To Fascinating Applications Across Disciplines, For Example The Use Of Bacteria And Yeast For The Printing And Fabrication Of Electronic Circuits, Micro Lenses For Oleds And Braille Printing On Ordinary Paper, And Designing / Re-Engineering Antibodies For Pharmaceutical Companies.

Ashim Rai, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ashim Rai

Assistant Professor

PhD (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Research Interests: Cytoskeleton, Single-molecule Biophysics, FRET Biosensors, DNA Origami

Subhash Rajpurohit, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Subhash Rajpurohit

Associate Professor

PhD (Maharshi Dayanand University)

Research Interests: Species, Climate Warming, and Evolution

Rama Ratnam, Professor | Ahmedabad University

Rama Ratnam

Professor

PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Research Interests: Neuroscience, Brain And Behavior, Sensory Processing, Neural Engineering.

Balachandran Ravindran, Visiting Professor | Ahmedabad University

Balachandran Ravindran

Visiting Professor

PhD (University of Delhi)

Research Interests: Life Sciences, Microbiology, Immunology and Parasite Biology.

Souvik Sen Gupta, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Souvik Sen Gupta

Associate Professor & Assistant Dean

PhD (Jadavpur University)

Research Interests: Anti-Leishmanial Therapeutics, Molecular Parasitology, DNA Damage And Repair, Biochemistry

Ritesh Shukla, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ritesh Shukla

Associate Professor

PhD (Jamia Hamdard)

Research Interests: Nanobiotechnology (Forensic Nanotechnology, Forensic Biotechnology), Toxicology (Nanotoxicology), DNA Forensics, Food Forensics, Point Of Care/Detection Diagnostic Devices.

Krishna Swamy, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Krishna Swamy

Associate Professor

PhD (Academia Sinica)

Research Interests: Evolutionary Systems Biology, Genetics And Molecular Biology, Computational Biology, Comparative Genomics.

Vivek Tanavde, Associate Dean of the Undergraduate College | Ahmedabad University

Vivek Tanavde

Associate Professor; Associate Dean of the Undergraduate College

PhD (Mumbai University)

Research Interests: Adult Stem Cells, miRNA Regulation Of Cell Differentiation, Cancer Biomarkers, Connecting Transcriptome To Cellular Phenotype.

Noopur Thakur, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Noopur Thakur

Associate Professor

PhD (Uppsala University)

Research Interests: Signaling, Cancer And Epigenetics.

Kunal Basu, Distinguished Professor of Humanities | Ahmedabad University

Kunal Basu

Distinguished Professor of Humanities

PhD (University of Florida)

Sudeep Chakravarti, Professor of Practice, Ahmedabad University

Sudeep Chakravarti

Professor of Practice and Chair, Communication Programme

BA (Honours) (Delhi University)

Research Interests: Foreign Policy, South Asian Affairs, Indian Ocean Affairs, Geo-economics, Internal Security, Intersection of Democracy and Development, Northeast India, Eastern South Asia, Intersection of Business and Human Rights

Aditya Chaturvedi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aditya Chaturvedi

Assistant Professor

PhD (Emory University)

Research Interests: Indian Intellectual History of the late Second Millennium (Vaiṣṇava Vedānta, Puṣṭimārga), Religious Studies, Bhakti Studies, Tantra, and South Asian Art History

Manomohini Dutta, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Manomohini Dutta

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Texas at Austin)

Research Interests: Pre-Modern Indian History, Law and Religion, Hindu Legal Traditions and Sanskrit.

Maya Jasanoff, Visiting Professor | Ahmedabad University

Maya Jasanoff

Visiting Professor

PhD (Yale University)

Murari Kumar Jha, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Murari Kumar Jha

Assistant Professor

PhD (Leiden University)

Research Interests: Economy, Empire, Institutions, River, Indian Ocean, Environmental Changes

Apaar Kumar, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Apaar Kumar

Associate Professor

PhD (Emory University)

Research Interests: History of Modern Philosophy (especially Kant), Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, Ethics

Tejaswini Niranjana, Visiting Professor | Ahmedabad University

Tejaswini Niranjana

Visiting Professor

PhD (UCLA)

Research Interests: Cultural theory, gender studies, cultural history of Indian music, Inter-Asia studies, translation theory

Aparajith Ramnath, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aparajith Ramnath

Associate Professor

PhD (Imperial College London)

Research Interests: History of science and technology, history of engineers, business history, South Asian history

Neeraja Sankaran, Visiting Professor

Neeraja Sankaran

Visiting Professor

PhD (Yale University)

Research Interests: History of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, including History of Virology, History of Biology, History of Virus Research, History of Immunology, History of Molecular Biology, History of Disease, and Historiography of Science, including Scientific Biography and Autobiography, Oral History

Rahul Sarwate, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Rahul Sarwate

Assistant Professor

PhD (Columbia University)

Research Interests: Intellectual and Cultural History, Social History, Religion and Society, Modern South Asia, Translation Studies, Public Histories, Marathi Language

Shishir Saxena, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Shishir Saxena

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Cambridge)

Research Interests: Indian Philosophy (darśanaśāstra), Sanskrit, Epics (Rāmāyaṇa & Mahābhārata)

Ayesha Sheth, Assistant Professor

Ayesha Sheth

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Research Interests: Early Modern History, Courtly Cultures, Performance Studies, Mercantile Networks, Indigenous Histories, Early Modern Literatures

Charu Singh, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Charu Singh

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Delhi)

Research Interests: Vernacular Archives and Manuscripts, Medieval Indian Literature, Literary Historiography , Women’s history

Guillaume Wadia, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Guillaume Wadia

Assistant Professor

PhD (Harvard University)

Research Interests: History of France and its Colonial Empire, Modern Europe, History of the Indian Ocean, Environmental, Military, and Business History

Pramath Anamby, Assistant Professor

Pramath Anamby

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)

Research Interests: Modular and automorphic forms, Analytic number theory, Analytical aspects of modular forms and L-functions

Samyaday Choudhury, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Samyaday Choudhury

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)

Research Interests: Stellar populations, extragalactic star formation, stellar evolution, galaxy evolution, big data analysis in astronomy

Soumen Ghosh, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Soumen Ghosh

Assistant Professor

PhD (Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Atomic molecular and plasma physics, Trap electron, positron and ion beam physics.

Gaurav Goswami, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Gaurav Goswami

Assistant Professor

PhD (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune)

Research Interests: Issues at the interface of Fundamental Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics

Raghwinder Singh Grewal, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Raghwinder Singh Grewal

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)

Research Interests: Atomic Magnetometry, Quantum Sensing, Nonlinear-Optics

Chetkar Jha, Assistant Professor

Chetkar Jha

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Missouri)

Research Interests: Bayesian Analysis, Network Analysis, High-Dimensional Data Analysis

Jitesh Jhawar, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Jitesh Jhawar

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)

Research Interests: Animal Behaviour, Collective Behaviour, Self Organisation, Ecology and Evolution, Population Dynamics, Mathematical Modelling, Theoretical Ecology

Pankaj Joshi, Distinguished Professor of Physics | Ahmedabad University

Pankaj Joshi

Distinguished Professor of Physics; Director, International Centre for Space and Cosmology

PhD (Bhavnagar University)

Research Interests: General Relativity and Cosmology

Pinaki Majumdar, Professor

Pinaki Majumdar

Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Research Interests: Condensed Matter Theory- Magnetism, Superconductivity, Metal-insulator Transitions, Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena

Eshita Mazumdar, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Eshita Mazumdar

Assistant Professor

PhD (Homi Bhabha National Institute, Harish Chandra Research Institute)

Research Interests: Additive Combinatorics, Algebraic Combinatorics, Extremal Combinatorics, Combinatorial Number Theory, Diophantine Equations

Sutapa Mukherji, Professor | Ahmedabad University

Sutapa Mukherji

Professor

PhD (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)

Research Interests: Complex Systems and Biological Physics

Ashwin Pande, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ashwin Pande

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Science & University of Maryland)

Research Interests: Topological T-duality, Mathematical Physics and String Theory, Pattern Formation and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Visualization, Numerical Physics and Visualization

Pravakar Paul, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Pravakar Paul

Assistant Professor

PhD (The University of lowa)

Research Interests: Quantum Topology, Algebra, Algebraic Topology

Raghavan Rangarajan, Professor, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences | Ahmedabad University

Raghavan Rangarajan

Professor & Dean

PhD (University of California)

Research Interests: Cosmology And Particle Physics

Manjil Saikia, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Manjil Saikia

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Vienna, Austria)

Research Interests: Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics, q-Series and Integer Partitions, Elementary Number Theory, Theoretical Computer Science

Shashi Kant Shankar, Assistant Professor

Shashi Kant Shankar

Assistant Professor

PhD (Tallinn University, Estonia)

Research Interests: Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching, (Multimodal) Learning Analytics, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Educational Technology

Alok Shukla, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Alok Shukla

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Oklahoma)

Research Interests: Modular Forms, Automorphic Forms And Representations, Quantum Computing.

Susanta Tewari, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Susanta Tewari

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Georgia)

Research Interests: Computational Biology, Statistical Genetics, and Computational Population Genetics

Aditya Vaishya, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aditya Vaishya

Assistant Professor

PhD (National University of Ireland)

Research Interests: Air quality, Air Pollution, Climate Change, Aerosol Instrumentation

Kathyayini Das, Assistant Professor

Kathyayini Dash

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Cape Town)

Research Interests: Interdisciplinary Artistic Research, Practice-as-research and Practice-based Research Methodology in Theatre and Performance, Archive Studies, Migration Studies, Embodiment Studies, Decolonial Studies, Affect Studies

Deepan Sivaraman

Deepan Sivaraman

Professor

MA (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)

Research Interests: Theatre as a Form of Knowledge Production, Theatre of Scenography, Post-Dramatic Theatre

Aditi Deo, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aditi Deo

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indiana University)

Research Interests: Performance Practice, Technologies, Pedagogies, Circulation And Heritage.

Rajesh Naidu Assistant Professor Ahmedabad University

Rajesh Naidu

Assistant Professor

Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts/Painting (Indiana State University)

Research Interests: representational art, observational art, visual arts, painting, human condition, figurative art, human figure, realism

Ranu Roychoudhuri, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ranu Roychoudhuri

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Chicago)

Research Interests: History of Photography; Global Modernism; Contemporary Art; Intellectual History of Art; Art Historiography; Modern South Asia; Postcolonial Studies

Lakshmi Sreeram, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Lakshmi Sreeram

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Mumbai)

Research Interests: Indian Music, Epistemology of Raga, Rasa theory, Epistemology of Rasa.

Safwan Amir, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad Univeristy

Safwan Amir

Assistant Professor

PhD (Madras Institute of Development Studies)

Research Interests: Anthropology of religion; sociology of caste; anthropology of ethics, historical anthropology; ethnography; Indian Ocean; Islam and South Asia.

Mary Ann Chacko, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Mary Ann Chacko

Assistant Professor

EdD (Teachers College, Columbia University)

Research Interests: Critical Childhood and Youth Studies, Gender, Citizenship, Ethnography

Sudeep Chakravarti, Professor of Practice, Ahmedabad University

Sudeep Chakravarti

Professor of Practice and Chair, Communication Programme

BA (Honours) (Delhi University)

Research Interests: Foreign Policy, South Asian Affairs, Indian Ocean Affairs, Geo-economics, Internal Security, Intersection of Democracy and Development, Northeast India, Eastern South Asia, Intersection of Business and Human Rights

Kasturi Chatterjee, Assistant Professor

Kasturi Chatterjee

Assistant Professor

PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Research Interests: International Relations Theory, International Organisations, Historical Justice, Genocide and Genocide Denial

Suchismita Das, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Suchismita Das

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Chicago)

Research Interests: Anthropology of the State, Conservation and Development, Climate Change, Tourism, Indigeneity, Borders and Frontiers, Multispecies Ethnography, Environmental History.

Aditi Deo, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aditi Deo

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indiana University)

Research Interests: Performance Practice, Technologies, Pedagogies, Circulation And Heritage.

Nithin George, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Nithin George

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Visual attention, Perception, Psychophysics, Perceptual Learning

Aarzoo Gupta, Visiting Professor

Aarzoo Gupta

Visiting Professor

PhD (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology)

Research Interests: Cognitive processes, metacognition, emotion regulation, psychotherapy process and outcome, sexual and gender minorities, and mental health.

Darshini Mahadevia, Professor | Ahmedabad University

Darshini Mahadevia

Professor

PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Research Interests: Urban Studies, Human And Gender Development, Poverty And Inequality And Climate Change.

Khusdeep Kaur Malhotra, Assistant Professor

Khusdeep Kaur Malhotra

Assistant Professor

PhD (Temple University)

Research Interests: Precarity and Belonging, Geographies of Political Violence, Spatiality of Religion, Production of Geographic Knowledge

Leya Mathew, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Leya Mathew

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Research Interests: Liberalization and aspiration, mothering, youth, gender, migration, techno-science

Mona Mehta, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Arts | Ahmedabad University

Mona Mehta

Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Arts

PhD (University of Chicago)

Research Interests: Urban transformations and the remaking of city spaces, Youth aspirations and Skill development discourses, Democracy and its vulnerabilities and the political thought of M. K. Gandhi

Rachna Mishra, Assistant Professor

Rachna Mishra

Assistant Professor

PhD (Delhi University)

Research Interests: Resilience, Child Protection, Psychosocial Interventions for Youth, Positive Youth Development

Keita Omi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Keita Omi

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Utah)

Research Interests: International Relations (IR), Government Secrecy, Comparative Politics (CP), Asian Politics (Myanmar and India), Ethnography, Political Psychology, Undergraduate Pedagogy

Shilpa Pandit, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Shilpa Pandit

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Madras)

Research Interests: Leveraging technology for mental health in rural India, lay counselors for health, vulnerability and flourishing among adolescents and youth, social entrepreneurs/change makers among youth, music and the sense of surprise/wonder/awe/adbhuta, visualization and meditation, the phenomenology of being ‘present’/‘ here and now’, neuro-phenomenology of advanced meditation states.

Chakravarthi Rangarajan, Distinguished University Professor | Ahmedabad University

Chakravarthi Rangarajan

Distinguished University Professor

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Maya Ratnam, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Maya Ratnam

Assistant Professor

PhD (Johns Hopkins University)

Research Interests: Environmental History And Anthropology of India, With Particular Reference To Indigenous And Resource-Dependent Communities.

Nagireddy Neelakanteswar Reddy, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Nagireddy Neelakanteswar Reddy

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Evolutionary Psychology, Experimental Folk-psychology

Rucha Sarwate, Assistant Professor of Practice | Ahmedabad University

Rucha Sarwate

Assistant Professor of Practice

PhD (Savitribai Phule Pune University)

Research Interests: Clinical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Psychodiagnostics, Mindfulness and Presence-Based Approaches of Psychotherapy, Buddhist Psychology

Ramadhar Singh, Distinguished University Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ramadhar Singh

Distinguished University Professor

PhD (Purdue University)

Research Interests: Organisational Behavior, Psychology, Public Policy, Research Methods.

Divita Singh, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Divita Singh

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Visual Attention, Emotion-induced Blindness, Self-bias, Working Memory

Neelanjan Sircar, Associate Professor

Neelanjan Sircar

Associate Professor

PhD (Columbia University)

Research Interests: Political Behaviour, Elections, Welfare Delivery, Political Economy, Applied Statistics

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