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Dr. Krishnakanta Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor, Department of General Sciences (Physics)

Cosmology, General Relativity
BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus Dubai International Academic City P. O. Box No. - 345055 Dubai, UAE. Office no: 250

WELCOME

Hi, I’m Krishnakanta Bhattacharya—please feel free to call me Krish. I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Science (Physics) at BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus. My research focuses on various aspects of gravitation and cosmology, with particular interest in approaches that interpret gravity as an emergent phenomenon—such as black hole thermodynamics and fluid-gravity correspondence. My work spans general relativity and its extensions, including scalar-tensor theories, f(R) gravity, and Lanczos–Lovelock gravity. I earned my Ph.D. from IIT Guwahati under the mentorship of Prof. Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, a distinguished expert in this field, and I had the privilege of briefly working with the legendary Prof. T. Padmanabhan, a towering figure in theoretical physics in India. A brief overview of my academic journey is presented below.

Academic Journey

  • Aug 2024 - Present:            Assistant Professor (Physics), Dept. of General ScienceBITS-Pilani, Dubai Campus
  • Dec 2022 - Jul 2024:          JSPS Postdoctoral fellow;  Advisor: Prof. Kazuharu Bamba
  • May 2022 - Dec 2022:        Postdoctoral fellow at IACS Kolkata; Advisor: Prof: Sumanta Chakraborty 
  • Sept 2020 - May 2022:       Postdoctoral Fellow at IUCAA Pune; Advisor: Late Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan
  • July 2019 - Feb 2020:         Fulbright visiting scholar at California State University Fresno; Advisor: Prof. Douglas Singleton
  • July 2015 - Aug 2020:         Ph.D. scholar at IIT Guwahati; Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Bibhas Ranjan Majhi
  • June 2013- July 2015:         M.Sc. (Physics) at Visva Bharati University
  • June 2010 - May 2013:        B.Sc. (Physics) at Visva Bharati University