CV for Pratap Raychaudhuri

2005-present: 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

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

Some recent talks given at National/International Conferences*

“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 La_1-xCe_xMnO₃”,

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