Bedangadas Mohanty

Bedangadas Mohanty (born 8 April 1973) is an Indian physicist specialising in experimental high energy physics affiliated to National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2015, the highest science award in India, in the physical sciences category.[1]

Career

Dr. Bedangadas Mohanty completed his MSc from Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar. After finishing his PhD from Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar in 2002, he was a DAE K.S. Krishnan Fellow and Scientific Officer at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre[2] till 2012. Meanwhile, he was a Post-Doctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory till 2007, and Spectra Physics Working Group Co-convenor of STAR Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Facility, Brookhaven National Laboratory till 2008. Later in May 2008, he was selected as the Physics Analysis Coordinator of the STAR Experiment, with the responsibility to regulate the publication of papers, maintenance of database, information and data records etc. From 2011 to 2014, he was the Deputy Spokesperson STAR Experiment, and was responsible for taking all scientific and administrative decisions regarding function of the collaboration. From 2013 onward, he has been the collaboration Board Member of ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider Facility, CERN. [3]. He joined NISER in 2012 as an Associate Professor and is the current chairperson of School of Physical Sciences, NISER.

Awards


References

  1. ↑ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. CSIR Human Resource Development Group, New Delhi. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  2. ↑ http://home.niser.ac.in/viewfacdetail.php?e=bedanga
  3. ↑ http://home.niser.ac.in/~bedanga/duties.php

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