Abhishek Dhar (born 31 August 1970) is an Indian physicist specialising instatistical physics andcondensed matter physics. He is a professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences,Bangalore.^[1]

Dhar obtained hisPhD in 1998 from the Department of Theoretical Physics at theTata Institute of Fundamental Research. His doctoral advisor wasDeepak Dhar. He did post-doctoral research atIndian Institute of Science,Raman Research Institute andUniversity of California, Santa Cruz. Dhar then became a faculty member of the Raman Research Institute and later joined the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences.^[2]

Dhar works on the theory and applications of statistical physics to study non-equilibrium problems. His research areas include anomalous heat transport in low dimensional systems^[3] andopen quantum systems where he made significant contributions in developing an approach using quantum Langevin equations. Dhar also studies large deviations and fluctuation theorems in transport, foundational aspects of statistical mechanics, the measurement problem in quantum mechanics and models ofactive matter.

For his results in classical and quantum transport in low dimensional systems and contributions to non-equilibriumfluctuation theorems, Dhar was awarded theICTP prize in 2008^[4] andShanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for Physical Sciences in 2009.^[5] He is a fellow of theIndian Academy of Sciences (2012),^[6] theNational Academy of Sciences (2018)^[7] and theIndian National Science Academy (2020).^[8]

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