Vitae, Ujjwal Sen

Current position:
Director, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI).

Professor @HRI in the Physics Division.

Professor @Homi Bhabha National Institute in Physical Sciences.


Previous Experience (in reverse chronological order):

  1. Associate Professor-G in the Physics Division, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India, from August 2014 to June 2018.

  2. Reader-F in the Physics Division, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India, from July 2009 to July 2014.

  3. Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, from November 2008 to July 2009.

  4. Ramon-y-Cajal fellow (a tenure-track position from the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain) at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, from January 2008. Resigned from this position in November 2008.

  5. Research fellow with Maciej Lewenstein at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, from December 2006 to December 2007.

  6. Post-doctoral fellow with Maciej Lewenstein at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, from February 2005 to November 2006.

  7. Alexander von Humboldt fellow with Maciej Lewenstein in the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany, from 01 December 2003 to January 2005. Was at Goethe Institut, Goettingen in December 2003 and January 2004.

  8. Completed my Ph.D. (Doctor of Physics) under the supervision of Ryszard Horodecki in the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdansk, Poland. (Title of my thesis: Local indistinguishability of sets of orthogonal states.) I also worked with Marek Zukowski of the same institute.

    Doctoral degree obtained in November 2003.


Current students:

  1. Aparajita Bhattacharyya

  2. Priya Ghosh

  3. Debarupa Saha

  4. Paranjoy Chaki

  5. Sayan Mondal

  6. Anindita Sarkar

  7. Shuva Mondal

New: PhD positions available. Please email for more info.


Co-working HRI postdocs:

  1. Sutapa Saha

  2. Sukrut Mondkar


DST QuEST members:

  1. Swati Choudhary (Research assistant).

  2. Asam Rajesh (Research associate), completed, currently at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar.

  3. Suchetana Goswami (Research associate), completed, currently a senior researcher at University of Edinburgh.


Former students:

  1. Utkarsh Mishra, currently a faculty member at Delhi University.

  2. Asutosh Kumar, currently a faculty member at Gaya College, Magadh University.

  3. Sudipto Singha Roy, currently a faculty member at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad.

  4. Anindita Bera, currently a faculty member at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra.

  5. Sreetama Das, currently a postdoc at UIB-CSIC Research Center, Palma de Mallorca.

  6. Chirag Srivastava, currently a postdoc at Uniwersytet Gdanski.

  7. Ahana Ghoshal, currently a postdoc at Universitaet Siegen.

  8. Kornikar Sen, currently a postdoc at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

  9. Tanaya Ray, currently a postdoc at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata.


Former co-working HRI postdocs:

  1. R. Prabhu, now a faculty member at Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad.

  2. Anindya Biswas, now a faculty member at National Institute of Technology Sikkim.

  3. Manabendra Nath Bera, now a faculty member at Indian Institute for Science Education and Research Mohali.

  4. Himadri Shekhar Dhar, now a faculty member at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

  5. Debraj Rakshit, now a faculty member at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj (Allahabad).

  6. Amit Kumar Pal, now a faculty member at Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad.

  7. Namrata Shukla, now a faculty member at Banaras Hindu University.

  8. Samyadeb Bhattacharyya, now a faculty member at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad.

  9. Saubhik Sarkar, now a postdoc at Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa.

  10. Sk Sazim, now a postdoc at Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa.

  11. Debmalya Das, now a postdoc at Universita di Bari.

  12. Saronath Halder, now a faculty member at VIT-AP University.

  13. Arun Sehrawat, now a principal research engineer at LTIMindtree.

  14. Manish Gupta, now a postdoc at Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa.

  15. Asmita Kumari, now a scientist at CSIR - National Physical Laboratory, Delhi.

  16. Som Kanjilal, now a postdoc at International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga.

  17. Deepti Sharma, now at Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad.

  18. Shiladitya Mal, now a faculty member at Chennai Institute of Technology.

  19. Amrita Mandal, now a faculty member at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra.

  20. Arghya Maity, now a postdoc at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.


Journal boards:

  1. Quantum, Coordinating Editor.

  2. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, International Advisory Board.

  3. Frontiers in Quantum Science and Engineering, Review Editor in Quantum Engineering.