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| Born | (1954-12-06)6 December 1954 (age 71) Tamil Nadu, India |
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| Known for | Studies on Magnetic systems and superconductivity |
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Echur Varadadesikan Sampathkumaran (born 6 December 1954) is an Indiancondensed matter physicist and a Distinguished Professor at theTata Institute of Fundamental Research. Known for his research on the thermal and transport behaviour of magnetic systems, Sampathkumaran is an elected fellow of major Indian science academies viz.Indian Academy of Sciences,Indian National Science Academy,National Academy of Sciences, India andThe World Academy of Sciences. TheCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 1999.[1][note 1]
E. V. Sampathkumaran, born on 6 December 1954 in the south Indian state ofTamil Nadu, earned his BSc degree from theUniversity of Madras before obtaining a master's degree fromAnnamalai University.[2] Subsequently, he joinedTata Institute of Fundamental Research as a member of faculty in 1976.[3] During this period, he enrolled at theUniversity of Mumbai for doctoral studies onvalence fluctuations in rare-earth compounds and secured a PhD in 1982, guided byRamanuja Vijayaraghavan, aShanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate. He did his post-doctoral work onvalence fluctuations as anAlexander von Humboldt Fellow at theFree University of Berlin, under the guidance of G. Kaindl, during 1983–84 and returned to TIFR to resume his career there. Barring two sabbaticals, the first as an Indo-Waseda Exchange Visitor for two months in 1988 to Japan and the other, a two-month stint atPaderborn University in 1996, his entire career was spent at TIFR, holding various positions. During 2008–10, he chaired the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science after which he served as the dean of the Natural Sciences faculty from 2010 to 2013. After his superannuation in 2014, he continues his association with the institute as a Distinguished Professor.[4] He also had a brief stint as the director of the institute during April–July 2015[5] and served as an Honorary Professor atJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research from 2001 to 2015.[3]
Sampathkumaran's early research was focused on intermetallics and oxides, with regard to their solid state properties and his work led to the identification of newfluctuating-valent rare-earth systems.[2] The thermal and transport behaviour of magnetic systems,[6][7]superconductivity, physics of d- and f-electron systems,Kondo lattices, geometrically frustrated magnetism, spin-chain magnetism,multiferroics andnanomagnetism have been some of the other areas of his work.[4] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[8][9][note 2] and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 302 of them.[10]
Sampathkumaran is a member of the editorial boards ofSolid State Communications[11] andJournal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials[12] ofElsevier andScientific Reports journal ofNature.[13] He is a former editorial board member ofPramana journal (1996–2010) and the now discontinuedThe Open Condensed Matter Physics Journal ofBentham Science Publishers. He is a former member of Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials and sat in the executive committee of the Indian Physics Association from 2014 to 2016.[14] His association with government agencies included membership in two committees of theDepartment of Science and Technology, namely the program advisory committee on Condensed Matter Physics (1995–98) and the committee forSERC Schools in Condensed Matter Physics (1998–). He is also a former member of the governing councils or management boards ofIndian Association for the Cultivation of Science (2010–2011),National Physical Laboratory (2010–2012)Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (2010–2013) and TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences at Hyderabad and the selection committees of Indian National Science Academy (2012–2014) and Indian Academy of Sciences (2013—2015).[3]
TheIndian National Science Academy awarded Sampathkumaran the INSA Young Scientists Medal in 1986[15] and a decade later, he received the MRSI Medal of the Materials Research Society of India in 1996.[16] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1999.[17]
TheIndian Academy of Sciences was the first Indian academy to honor him with an elected membership which he received in 1998.[18] The other two major academies followed suit, the elected fellowship of theNational Academy of Sciences, India reaching him in 1999[19] and that of the Indian National Science Academy in 2001.[20] He received the fellowship ofThe World Academy of Sciences in 2012.[21] He is also a recipient of the 2008 J. C. Bose National Fellowship of theDepartment of Science and Technology.[3]
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