List of Indian String Theorists

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Research Institutes followed by Universities in alphabetical order

1. Bose Institute, Kolkata

   • Pramod Kumar Shukla

2. SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

   • Parijat Dey

3. Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai

   • K. Narayan
   • Amitabh Virmani
   • Alok Laddha

4. Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad

   • Anirban Basu
   • Dileep Jatkar
   • Anshuman Maharana
   • Satchitananda Naik (retired)

5. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata

   • Koushik Ray

6. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

   • Justin David
   • Chethan Krishnan
   • Aninda Sinha

7. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

   • Sujay Ashok
   • Partha Mukhopadhyay
   • Roji Pius
   • S. Kalyana Rama (retired)
   • Bala Sathiapalan (retired)
   • Nemani Suryanarayana

8. The Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar

   • Sudipta Mukherji

9. International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore

   • Avinash Dhar
   • Rajesh Gopakumar
   • R. Loganayagam
   • Suvrat Raju
   • Ashoke Sen
   • Spenta Wadia
   • Raghu Mahajan

10. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata (Calcutta)

    • Arnab Kundu
    • Shibaji Roy
    • Harvendra Singh

11. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

    • Abhijit Gadde
    • Gautam Mandal (also visiting at ICTS)
    • Shiraz Minwalla
    • Onkar Parrikar
    • Sandeep Trivedi

12. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

    • A. Abbas Ali

13. Ashoka University

    • Amin Nizami

14. Asutosh College, Kolkata

    • Parikshit Dutta

15. Banaras Hindu University

    • Sanjay K. Siwach

16. BITS Pilani at Hyderabad

    • Rahul Nigam
    • Prashant Samantray

17. Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra

    • Shiroman Prakash

18. Delhi University, Delhi

    • Supriya Kar (retired)
    • Swarnendu Sarkar (at Vidyasagar Uni. now)

19. IISER, Bhopal

    • Nabamita Banerjee
    • Suvankar Datta
    • Arnab Rudra

20. IISER, Mohali

    • K. P. Yogendran

21. IISER, Pune

    • Sunil Mukhi
    • Sachin Jain

22. IISER, Thiruvananthapuram

    • Bindusar Sahoo

23. Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

    • Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati
    • Abhishek Chowdhury

24. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

    • P. Rama Devi

25. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

    • Sarthak Parikh
    • Tarun Sharma

26. Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad

    • Mangesh Mandalik
    • Binata Panda

27. Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

    • Arpan Bhattacharyya

28. Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

    • Shubho R. Roy

29. Indian Institute of Technology, Indore

    • Manavendra N. Mahato
    • Debajyoti Sarkar

30. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

    • Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya
    • Kamal L. Panigrahi

31. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

    • Arjun Bagchi
    • Diptarka Das
    • Apratim Kaviraj
    • Nilay Kundu
    • Gautam Sengupta
    • Tapobrata Sarkar

32. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

    • Suresh Govindarajan
    • Ayan Mukhopadhyay
    • Prasanta K. Tripathy

33. Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

    • Nirmalya Kajuri

34. Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad

    • Prithvi Narayan

35. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

    • Aalok Misra
    • Dibakar Roychowdhury

36. Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

    • Shankhadeep Chakraborty
    • Rajesh Kumar Gupta

37. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

    • Debashis Ghoshal

38. Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal University

    • Kazuyuki Furuuchi

39. North Eastern Hill University NEHU

    • Anindya Kumar Biswas

40. NISER, Bhubaneswar

    • Shamik Banerjee
    • Sayantani Bhattacharya
    • Chethan Gowdigere
    • Jnan Maharana (Adjunct)
    • Sudhakar Panda
    • Yogesh Srivastava

41. NIT Arunachal Pradesh

    • Pratap Swain

42. NIT Jamshedpur

    • P. Pradhan

43. NIT Patna

    • Anurag Sahay

44. NIT Rourkela

    • Subhash Mahapatra

45. Ramakrishna Vidyamandir, Belur

    • Sagar Biswas

46. Sikkim University

    • Subir Kumar Mukhopadhyay

47. Union Christian College, Aluva, Kerala

    • Pramod Dominic
    • K. Madhu

48. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar

    • Swapna Mahapatra
    • Shesansu Sekhar Pal

49. Vivekananda University, Kolkata

    • Bobby Ezhuthachan