All about me

 
 


MY CONTACT

Email: mkv@iitk.ac.in

mahendra.k.verma@gmail.com

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.