Joydeep ChakraborttyProfessorDepartment of PhysicsIIT Kanpur
Professor Joydeep Chakrabortty

Joydeep Chakrabortty

ProfessorDepartment of PhysicsIIT Kanpur

Research Interest

Theoretical Physics, Effective Field Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Representation Theory, Heat-Kernel Methods, Spectral Functions, Grand Unified Theories, and Physics Beyond the Standard Model.

Emailjoydeep@iitk.ac.injoydeep.chakrabortty@gmail.com

Telephone+91 512 259 7083

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OfficeRoom FB-372
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur 208016, India

Specialization

Theoretical Particle Physics, Effective Field Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Representation Theory, Thermal Field Theory, Grand Unified Theories, and Beyond-Standard-Model Phenomenology.

Education

PhD in Particle Physics

Harish-Chandra Research Institute, 2006–2011

Supervisor: Professor Amitava RaychaudhuriThesis: Aspects of Grand Unified Theory, gauge-coupling unification with dimension-five operators, and neutrino masses in an SO(10) model.

MSc in Physics

University of Calcutta, 2004–2006

First Class

BSc (Honours) in Physics

University of Burdwan, 2001–2004

First Class

Teaching Area

Standard Model and Gauge Theory
Quantum Field Theory I & II
Particle Physics
Introduction to Electrodynamics
Mathematical Methods I & II

Invited Lecture Series

  1. Effective Field Theory, School for Advanced Topics in Particle Physics, ICTS Bengaluru, April 2024.
  2. Effective Field Theory, RKMVERI, Belur Math, July 2024.
  3. Grand Unified Theory, six-lecture series, IACS Kolkata, May-June 2018.
  4. Particle Physics and Group Theory, twelve-lecture series, IIT Guwahati, June-July 2017.
  5. Guest lectures on Group Theory at the SERC Preliminary School, IISER Bhopal and Tezpur University.

Selected Publications

  1. 2025

    Gauge invariant effective potential

    D. Balui, J. Chakrabortty, D. Dey, and S. Mohanty · Physical Review D 111, 085032

  2. 2025

    One Loop Thermal Effective Action

    J. Chakrabortty and S. Mohanty · Nuclear Physics B 1020, 117165

  3. 2024

    Renormalization of scalar and fermion interacting field theory for arbitrary loop: Heat-Kernel approach

    U. Banerjee, J. Chakrabortty, and K. Ramkumar · European Physical Journal Plus 139, 714

  4. 2024

    One-loop effective action up to any mass-dimension for non-degenerate scalars and fermions, including light-heavy mixing

    U. Banerjee, J. Chakrabortty, S. U. Rahaman, and K. Ramkumar · European Physical Journal Plus 139, 169

  5. 2024

    One-loop effective action up to dimension eight: Integrating out heavy fermion(s)

    J. Chakrabortty, S. U. Rahaman, and K. Ramkumar · Nuclear Physics B 1000, 116488

  6. 2024

    EFT, decoupling, Higgs boson mixing, and higher dimensional operators

    U. Banerjee, J. Chakrabortty, C. Englert, W. Naskar, S. U. Rahaman, and M. Spannowsky · Physical Review D 109, 055035

  7. 2021

    EFT diagrammatica: UV roots of the CP-conserving SMEFT

    S. Das Bakshi, J. Chakrabortty, S. Prakash, S. U. Rahaman, and M. Spannowsky · JHEP 06, 033

  8. 2019

    CoDEx: Wilson coefficient calculator connecting SMEFT to UV theory

    S. Das Bakshi, J. Chakrabortty, and S. K. Patra · European Physical Journal C 79, 21

Awards & Fellowships

IPPP Distinguished Visiting Academic Award
Durham University, UK

TUM Global Visiting Professor
Technical University of Munich, Germany

Member, Indian National Young Academy of Sciences

P. K. Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship
IIT Kanpur

Buti Foundation Award
Indian Physics Association

Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences

INSPIRE Faculty Award

Selected for Marie Curie Actions Fellowship

Activities & Scientific Service

  • Led the establishment of an institutional memorandum of understanding between IIT Kanpur and the Future Circular Collider collaboration at CERN.
  • Contributed to three CERN Yellow Reports, the Snowmass whitepaper programme, and the LHC-EFT Working Group report.
  • Organised the Young Particle Physicists Meet at IIT Kanpur and served on organising committees for national and international HEP meetings.
  • Serves as a referee for international journals and reviewer of research proposals in India and abroad.
  • Conducts open online lectures for high-energy physics students, with special attention to students from under-resourced institutions.

Research Group

High Energy Physics Theory

Current PhD Students

5 scholars

Current Postdoctoral Fellow

1 researcher

Current Collaborators

8 collaborators

Graduated PhD Students

8 graduates

INSPIRE Faculty, University of Delhi

Phenomenological and theoretical aspects of BSM scalars in light of low-energy constraints.

Dr Anisha ↗2017-2021

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Impact of the effective field theory of the Standard Model and beyond on low-energy observables.

Argonne National Laboratory

Automatization of integrating out heavy fields and effective classification of beyond-Standard-Model theories.

IBS CTPU-CGA, Daejeon

Cosmological and phenomenological implications of grand unified theories.

IFIC, University of Valencia

Protocols for operator construction within the EFT paradigm.

Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University

An effective-field-theory approach to the inverse problem in particle physics.

Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan

Leptogenesis as a possible explanation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe.

Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Methods of integrating out heavy fields through dimension eight and their impact.

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

3 researchers

INSPIRE Faculty Mentoring

2 faculty mentees

Research Associates

4 researchers

Bachelor's and Master's Thesis Students

10 students
  • Archan MukhopadhyayMS-PhD dual programme
  • Bishnu DasMSc programme
  • DharambirMSc programme
  • Akshansh SinghBS-MS programme
  • Himanshu RatheeBS-MS programme
  • Priyank KaushikBS-MS project
  • Mudit KumarMSc-PhD dual-degree project
  • Subhankar MannaMSc programme
  • Kaustubh JhaBS-MS programme
  • Siddharth ThakurMSc programme

Lecture Notes and Videos

Lecture Videos

Effective Field TheoryICTS Bengaluru lecture ↗ Effective Field TheoryRKMVERI, Belur Math lecture ↗ All Lecture SeriesView the complete video playlists ↗

Lecture Notes

Additional lecture notes will be available on the joydeep-EFT website ↗.

  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Group Theory
  • Effective Field Theory

Professional Experience

Professor
IIT Kanpur

Associate Professor
IIT Kanpur

Assistant Professor
IIT Kanpur

INSPIRE Faculty
IIT Kanpur

Postdoctoral Fellow
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad

Current Research

Current work develops mathematical and computational formalisms for theoretical physics, with emphasis on symmetry-driven effective field theory, functional matching, heat-kernel methods, gauge-invariant effective potentials, and finite-temperature quantum field theory. These methods are applied to Standard Model extensions, collider observables, neutrino physics, grand unification, and early-universe phenomena.

Sponsored Projects

Core Research Grant

Principal Investigator · SERB, India

Indo-Polish Bilateral Research Grant

Principal Investigator · DST-NAWA

MATRICS Research Grant

Principal Investigator · SERB, India

Early Career Research Award

Principal Investigator · SERB, India

Initiation Research Grant

Principal Investigator · IIT Kanpur

INSPIRE Faculty Award

Principal Investigator · DST, India

Scientific Software

CoDExWilson-coefficient calculator connecting SMEFT to ultraviolet theories.Visit project ↗GrIPGroup-invariant and representation-theory tools for particle physics.Visit project ↗