All about me
MY CONTACT
Email: mkv@iitk.ac.in
Address:
Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Kanpur (UP) 208016
India
Phone: 091-512-2597396
Fax: 091-512-2590914
ABOUT ME
Experience
Dec. 2010- Present: Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
Nov. 2001- Nov. 2010: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
Dec. 1995- Oct. 2001: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
May 1994- Dec. 1995: Lecturer, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
Jan. 1994- April 1994: Visiting Facultyr, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
Jan. 2007- Dec. 2007: Visiting Scientist, University Libre du Brussels, Brussels.
Education
Aug. 1988- Jan. 1994: Ph. D. in Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Aug. 1984- May 1988: B. Tech. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
Research Interest
Fluid, magnetohydrodynamic, and convective turbulence
Application of field theoretic methods to turbulence
Direct numerical simulation of turbulence; Parallel Computing
Magnetic field generation (Dynamo)
Solar wind, solar physics, accretion disk
Using computers as a tool for education
Awards and Recognition
Swarnajayanti fellowship, 2006
ndian National Science Academy (INSA) Teachers Award, 2016.
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Cray HPC Awards, 2018
Associate of International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (2004-2009).
Member of Theoretical Physics Circuit for several years
Member of Indian Physical Society
Member of Indian Association of Physics
Personal
Nationality: Indian
Thesis Supervised
“Energy Spectra and Transfers in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence” by Gaurav Dar, 1995-2000, Physics, IIT Kanpur (jointly supervised by Prof. V. Eswaran)
Sponsored Projects
“Direct numerical simulation of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence”, sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, India, 1995-1997.
“Three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence simulations” sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, India, 2001-2004.
“Apne Hath Se (Learning by doing)”, sponsored by Media Lab Asia, 2002-2003
“Swarnajayanti fellowship”, 2007-2011.
