Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Assistant Professor
107-C, Old Sac Building,
Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
About me
Greetings! I am Sabyasachi Chakraborty, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, a position I have held since August 2022.
My research primarily focuses on theoretical particle physics, particularly on Beyond the Standard Model Physics. For further details, please refer to my updated
CV.
Research Interests
Theory Frontier
- Axion Effective Field Theories and Renormalization Schemes
- Soft-Collinear Effective Theory and Gravity
- Supersoft Supersymmetry
Cosmic Frontier
- Light Dark Matter Models
- Wess-Zumino-Witten Interactions and Cooling of Stellar Objects
- Electroweak Phase Transition and Ultrarelativistic Bubbles
Intensity Frontier
- Axion and Dark Photon Searches
- Phenomenological Model of Mesons
- Applications of Heavy Quark Effective Theories
Energy Frontier
- Soft Tracks as Tool for New Physics
- Collider Phenomenology for Beyond Standard Model Physics
Academic Employments
- 2022 – onwards: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
- 2021 – 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy.
- 2018 – 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
- 2015 – 2018: Visiting Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.
Education
- 2010 – 2015: PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.
- 2008 – 2010: MSc in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
- 2005 – 2008: BSc in Physics (Hons.), Presidency College, Kolkata, India.
Awards
- 2013: CERN Summer School.
- 2012: DST Travel Grant, Asia Europe Pacific Summer School, Fukuoka, Japan.
- 2012: DST Travel Grant, PSI Zuoz Summer School, Switzerland.
- 2010 – 2015: CSIR Junior and Senior Research Fellowship, India.
- 2008: Silver Medalist, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
Grants
- 2023 – 2025: IIT Kanpur Initiation Grant (PHY/2022220).
- 2023 – 2025: SERB Start-up Research Grant (SERB-SRG/2023/001162).
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