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Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Assistant Professor
107-C, Old Sac Building,
Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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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
- Intensity Frontier: Low energy effective field theory (HQET, SCET etc). Searches for axions and dark photons.
- Cosmic Frontier: Wess-Zumino-Witten interactions and cooling of stellar objects. Electroweak Phase Transition.
- Theory Frontier: Soft collinear effective theory for gravity. Supersoft supersymmetry.
- Energy Frontier: Collider searches for new physics, soft tracks.
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 Insitute 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)