Thanu Padmanabhan
| Thanu Padmanabhan | |
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| Born |
10 March 1957 Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala |
| Residence | Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Physics, Astronomy |
| Institutions | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| Alma mater |
Kerala University, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Doctoral advisor | Jayant Narlikar |
| Notable awards | Padma Shri |
Thanu Padmanabhan (born 10 March 1957) is an Indian theoretical physicist and cosmologist whose research spans a wide variety of topics in Gravitation, Structure formation in the universe and Quantum Gravity. He has published more than 260 papers and reviews in international journals and ten books in these areas. Many of his contributions, especially those related to the analysis and modelling of dark energy in the universe and the interpretation of gravity as an emergent phenomenon, have made significant impact in the field. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, (IUCAA) at Pune, India.
Born in 1957, Padmanabhan did his schooling in Thiruvananthapuram and earned his B.Sc. (1977) and M.Sc. (1979) in Physics, securing Gold Medals in both for graduating at the top of his class, from the University College, Kerala University. He published his first research paper (on general relativity) when he was still a B.Sc. student, at the age of 20. He joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai in 1979 for his Ph.D. and became a faculty member there in 1980. He held various faculty positions at TIFR during 1980-1992 and also spent a year (in 1986-87) at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. He moved to IUCAA in 1992 and served as its Dean, Core Academic Programmes, for 18 years (1997-2015).
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