Dr. Shankar Prasad Das

Shankar Prasad Das is a Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Applied and Basic Sciences of SGT University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from the Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, USA. Prof. Das worked as a postdoctoral fellow in prestigious research laboratories in the Physics Department of The University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, USA and The Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, Holland. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious JC Bose National Fellowship of DST, Govt. of India, for excellence in his research. He is a Fellow of all three National Science Academies of India: the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) (2005), the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (2016), and the National Academy of Sciences India (NASI) (2017). He was awarded the US-India Professorship of the American Physical Society (APS). He has been on a scientific visit to Germany under the Exchange Program of the Indian National Science Academy(INSA) with the German Science Academy.

The Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR)awarded him a Research Grant (2001-2004). He was awarded the NSF grant under the Indo-US collaborative research program in (1997-2001). He published a research monograph entitled "Statistical Physics of Liquids at Freezing and Beyond" from the Cambridge University Press in 2011. He published over 110 research articles in highly reputed international journals, including the highly cited Reviews of Modern Physics article on the Mode-coupling theory of Glass transition. His research is focused on understanding microscopic mechanisms for nonlocal and nonlinear effects in high-density systems consisting of passive and active elements. His research aims to build mathematical models for physical phenomena involving collective mechanisms, e.g., forming an amorphous solid-like state with rigidity from the liquid state, the collective behaviour of a complex system of self-propelled particles, and relaxation from nonequilibrium states over multiple time scales.