Research Interests:

• The Global Properties of Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in the Big Bang Experiment.
  [ALICE Experiment at LHC, CERN, Switzerland]


• Exploration of QCD Phase Diagram and search for the Critical Point


• Matter formed at High Baryon Densities
  [Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment (CBM), GSI, Darmstadt, Germany]


• Phenomenology of Quark-Gluon Plasma


• GRAPES-3 (Gamma Ray Astronomy PeV Energies)


• Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in High-Energy Physics


• Applications of Statistical Mechanics in High-Energy Physics

Publication Summary [inspire- hep.net (July 2017)]:

• Total number of citations: 35,395, h-index: 101


• Average citations per paper: 100.8


• Citations: 41,515, h-index: 103 [Google Scholar]

Career Highlights:

• Associate Professor, IIT Indore (September 2013 - Present).


• Assistant Professor, IIT Indore (November 2010 - September 2013).


• Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM Indore) (2014-15).

Academic Profile:

• Fellow of Institute of Physics, UK


• INFN Fellow at INFN Padova, Italy (July 2009-November 2010) (ALICE @ CERN, Geneva ).


• CNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at Subatech, Nantes, France (Nov 2007 - June 2009) (STAR @ Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA).


• Visiting Scientist, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (May-November 2007).


• Research Scientist, University of Cape Town, South Africa (May 2007).


• Ph.D. (Experimental High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions (Quark Gluon Plasma)) (STAR Experiment at RHIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) -Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, 2007.


• MSc (Physics)-Particle Physics Specialization, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.

Memberships of Professional Bodies:

• Fellow Member, Institute of Physics, United Kingdom


• Life Member, Indian Physics Association (Membership No. IND/LM/12729).


• Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association (Membership No. L 22300).


• Patron Member, Orissa Physical Society (Membership No: 205).


• Life Member, Odisha Bigyan Academy (Membership No: 632).

Editor and Reviewer of International Journals and Projects:

• Member, Editorial Board, Physics, MDPI, Switzerland (2020-)


• Guest Editor, Advances in High Energy Physics (Special Issue on "Particle Production in Small and Large Systems at High-Energy and High-Density Frontiers")


• Guest Editor, Advances in High Energy Physics (Special Issue on "Particle Production in High Energy Collisions 2020")


• Guest Editor, Advances in High Energy Physics (Special Issue on "Properties of Chemical and Kinetic Freeze-outs in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions")


• Guest Editor, Advances in High Energy Physics (Special Issue on "Properties of Particle Production and System Evolution in BES-wide Energy Range")


• European Physical Journal A


• DAE-BRNS Projects, DAE-Nuclear Physics and DAE-High Energy Physics Symposia Papers


• International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Springer, USA)


• Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, IOP-UK Publishing


• Modern Physics Letters A


• International Journal of Modern Physics E


• Advances in High Energy Physics


• Pramana-Journal of Physics


• Chinese Physics C


• Central European Journal of Physics


• Indian Journal of Physics


• Physical Science International Journal


• Heavy Flavor Research Project, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.


• SONATA BIS, Panel-ST2, National Science Center, Poland (Narodowe Centrum Nauki - NCN)

Academic Visits to Abroad:

• China (2019), Vietnam (2019), The Netherlands (2017), Switzerland (2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), Japan (2015), Poland (2015).


• U.S.A. (2004, 2006), Hungary (2005), South Africa (2007), France (2007-2009), Italy (2009-2010, 2018),
  Germany (2014).