Kalobaran Maiti (born 21 October 1967) is an Indianphysicist specialising incondensed matter physics andmaterials science. He obtained his MSc degree fromRajabazar Science College and PhD degree fromIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was awarded theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2010, the highest science award in India, in thephysical sciences category[1] for his contribution in the field of very high resolution photoelectron spectroscopy in understanding the physics of metal-insulator transition, charge density wave and Kondo systems.[2] He is also a Fellow of theNational Academy of Sciences,[citation needed]Indian Academy of Sciences[citation needed] and theIndian National Science Academy.[3]
He is a Professor ofCondensed Matter Physics andMaterials Science atTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (TIFR). At TIFR, Maiti has built an electron spectrometer that can measure the energy of electrons with very high accuracy.[4] He was appointed as the Director of theIndian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata on 19th March, 2025.[5]
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