(columns...[2:1]) **Email Address: prasanna.b@iitgn.ac.in** **Ph: +91 79 2395 2546** **Office: Academic Block 6, 315 B** **AB 6/315B, IIT Gandhinagar** **Palaj, Gandhinagar, Gujarat** **382355, India** Welcome to my webpage! I am a theoretical physicist in the Physics Discipline at IIT Gandhinagar and lead a research group with interests broadly in the areas of Quantum Optics, Ultracold Atomic Physics, and Quantum Thermodynamics. ++++ (image: prasannapic2.jpg class: mypic width:100) (...columns) (columns...[2:1]) **Brief Biography:** - B. Sc (Hons), Chennai Mathematical Insitute, 2003-06 - M.Sc & PhD, McMaster University, 2006-13 (with [Duncan O'Dell](https://physwww.mcmaster.ca/people/faculty/O'Dell/O%27Dell_DHJ_h.html)) - Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, South Korea, 2013-15 (with [Gentaro Watanabe](https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/gentaro)) - Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Innsbruck, Austria 2015-18 (with [Oriol Romero-Isart](https://romeroisartgroup.com/)) - Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria 2018 (with [Helmut Ritsch](https://www.uibk.ac.at/th-physik/cqed/))

 

For CV click [here](./home/CurrentCV.pdf) ++++ **News** - 17/01/2023: Chinmayee's paper titled ``Crystalline Phases of Laser-Driven Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates" has been published in [Phys. Rev. A](http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.023312). This is in collaboration with colleagues from Innsbruck [Farokh Mivehvar](https://sites.google.com/view/farokhmivehvar/home) and Harvard [Stefan Ostermann](https://scholar.google.at/citations?user=APsaWEwAAAAJ&hl=de). Congratulations Chinmayee! - 23/08/2022: Rahul's first paper is now published in [Phys. Rev. E](https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.024123?ft=1). Congratulations Rahul! - 11/08/2022: A new pre-print from a collaboration with Sandipan Mohanta, Madhumita Saha and Bijay Agarwalla (IISER Pune) appears on the [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05887) today. Congratulations Sandipan!








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