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Present
Position: Associate Professor (G)
Past Positions
2005-2009: Reader
F, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
2002-2005: Fellow
E, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
2000-2002: Leverhulme (post-doctoral) Research Fellow,
University of Birmingham & University of St. Andrews, UK.
1995-2000: Research Scholar, Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, India
1990-1995: Integrated M.Sc. (Physics) Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, India
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Contact
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pratap@tifr.res.in
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Tel:+91-22-22782201
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FAX:
+91-22-22804610
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Office:
C-342, DCMPMS
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My profile on Google Scholar: http://tinyurl.com/pratap-google-scholar
Awards and Distinctions
2009: NASI-Scopus
Young Scientist Award, 2009
2006: Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Medal by the Indian National Science Academy
2003: INSA
Medal for Young Scientists
2001: TAA-Geeta
Udgaonkar Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Physical Sciences
1999: Awarded
First Prize for presentation titled "Colossal magneto-resistance:
novel properties, new materials and a new model" at the Annual Colloquium
for Young Physicists organised by Indian Physical Society, Kolkata
1995: Prof. K.L. Chopra endowment prize for the best experimental
(M.Sc.) project, IIT Kharagpur
Talks given at
National/International Conferences*
“Phase fluctuation induced pseudogap in a
strongly disordered s-wave superconductor, NbN”
Transport in Interacting Disordered Systems
TIDS– 14, Acre, September 5 - 8, 2011.
“Phase Fluctuations in a strongly disordered
s-wave superconductor close to the metal-insulator transition”
International
conference on strongly correlated electron systems SCES 2011, 29th August - 3rd
September 2011 in Cambridge, UK.
“Phase fluctuations in 2D and 3D NbN thin films”
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“Phase diagram of a strongly disordered s-wave
superconductor, NbN, close to the metal-insulator transition”
8th International Conference on Stripes and High
Tc Superconductivity STRIPES 11, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 10 July -16
July 2011.
“Tunneling studies in a homogeneously disordered
superconductor: NbN”
Conference
on superconductor-insulator transition, Abdus Salaam Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste, Italy, 18-23 May, 2009.
“Size effect is nanostructured superconductors”,
Correlated Electrons and Frustrated Magnetism,
International Centre, Dona Paula, Goa, November 25 - December 5, 2007.
“Evidence of multiband superconductivity in
the quaternary borocarbide superconductor YNi2B2C using
directional point-contact spectroscopy”
Materials and Mechanism of Superconductivity-High
temperature superconductors, Dresden, Germany, July 9–14, 2006.
"Is YNi2B2C
a multiband superconductor?",
Third
Indo-Israeli Meeting on Condensed Matter Physics, Toshali Sands, Puri, 17-21
April, 2005.
"Measurement of spin polarisation using
transport spectroscopic techniques",
Workshop on spintronic materials, Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre, Mumbai 1-2 December, 2003. 
"Transport and magnetic properties of the
new electron doped manganite La1-xCexMnO3",
Second
National Symposium on pulsed laser deposition, Pune University, 14-15 November,
2003.
. “Probing superconductors
and ferromagnets using point contact Andreev reflection”,
DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Guru Nanak Dev
University, Amritsar, 26-30 December, 2004.
"Point contact Andreev reflection as a
probe to study superconductors and ferromagnets",
India-Finland joint workshop on the Physics and
Techniques below 20K, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 16-18 February,
2004.
“Colossal
Magnetoresistance in a Mn2+/Mn3+ mixed valence system:
The new electron doped manganite (La,Ce)MnO3”,
Conference
on the physics and chemistry of rare-earth manganites, ICTP, Trieste, Italy,
16-18 June 2003.
. “Transport and magnetic
properties of the new electron doped manganite La1-xCexMnO3”,
National Symposium of Colossal magnetoresistive
Rare-Earth manganites and Related Compounds, S. N. Bose
Centre for Basic Science, Kolkata, January 2003.
* If you use any material from these presentations kindly refer
to/acknowledge this site http://www.tifr.res.in/~pratap
