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 [Google Scholar (October 2024)]:

• Total number of citations:106299


• h-index: 153


• Average citations per paper: 102.5

Employment Details:

• Professor, IIT Indore (2022--).


• CERN Scientific Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (01 March 2021 - 31 March 2022).


• Associate Professor, IIT Indore (September 2013 - Feb. 2022).


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

Academic Profile (Awards/Achievements):

• Special Invitee, M.P. Chapter of National Academy of Sciences India (NASI)


• Breakthrough Laureate in Fundamental Physics-2025 (ALICE Collaboration)


• Elected Fellow of National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), Prayagraj- 2024


• Associate Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi-2024


• Member, Scientific Council of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia (2024-)


• Distinguished Referee, European Physics Journals (EPJ)- 2024


• Chairperson, ALICE-India Collaboration Board (2023-2024)


• Excellence in Research Award-2024, IIT Indore, 15th Foundation Day of IIT Indore (17 Feb. 2024)


• India's 25 `most productive' scientists [World's top 2 percent in the Alper Doger (AD) Scientific Index 2023 and 2024 (No.1 at IIT Indore), [based on the scientific performance and the added value of the scientific productivity of individual scientists]


• UGC Nominee, Dr. H.S. Gour Central University, Sagar, Community Colleges under NSQF (2022-)


• Deputy Spokesperson, ALICE-India Collaboration (2021-2022)


• Associate Dean, International Relations, IIT Indore (Nov. 2020- Nov. 2023).


• Fellow of Institute of Physics, UK (2020)


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

Education:

• 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, Advances in Mathematical Physics (Wiley) (Nov. 2025-)


• Member, Editorial Board, Nature Scientific Reports (Feb. 2025-)


• Member, Editorial Board, Physica Scripta (Jan. 2025-)


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


• Special Issue Editor, MDPI-Physics (Special Issue on "Jean Cleymans: A Life for Physics")


• 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")


• Physica Scripta


• Heliyon


• European Physical Journal Plus


• MDPI-Universe, Switzerland


• MDPI-Entropy, Switzerland


• MDPI-Particles, Switzerland


• Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing


• European Physical Journal A


• MDPI Physics, Switzerland


• 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:

• Taiwan (2025), Denmark (2023), Sweden (2023), Romania (2023), China (2019), Vietnam (2019), The Netherlands (2017), Switzerland (2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021-2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), Japan (2015), Poland (2015).


• U.S.A. (2004, 2006), Hungary (2005, 2021), South Africa (2007), France (2007-2009, 2021, 2024), Italy (2009-2010, 2018), Germany (2014, 2023).