Mohit Randeria

Mohit Randeria (born March 9, 1958) is a US-based Indian condensed matter physicist and a professor of physics at Ohio State University. Known for his research on condensed matter theory and superconductivity, Randeria is an elected fellow of the American Physics Society. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2002. He was awarded the 2002 ICTP Prize of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste and the 2022 .

Biography

Born on March 9, 1958, in the India capital of New Delhi, Mohit Randeria graduated in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1980 and moved to the US for his master's studies to earn an MS degree in physics from California Institute of Technology in 1982. Subsequently, he enrolled at Cornell University in 1984 for his doctoral studies under the guidance of James P. Sethna and after securing a PhD in 1987, he did his post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign during 1987–89, in the group of Anthony James Leggett, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2003.

Legacy

Randeria's work has primarily been focused on high temperature superconductors. Besides, he has also worked on condensed matter theory, ultracold atomic gases, photoelectron spectroscopy, magnetism, disorder and nanoscale inhomogeneity in oxides as well as theoretical analysis of photoemision spectroscopy experiments. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and Google Scholar, an online article repository of scientific articles, has listed 223 of them.

Randeria is known to have been active in organizing science conferences and seminars. A year later, he was selected for the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology for a five-year tenure that ran between 1998 and 2003. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2002. The same year, he received the ICTP Prize of the International Center for Theoretical Physics. His alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi chose him for the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2008 and the American Physics Society elected him as their fellow in 2008. He was awarded the 2022 John Bardeen Prize “for pioneering theoretical work that has provided significant insights on the nature of superconductivity, its realization in strongly correlated systems, and experimental probes of unconventional superconductors,” specifically “for contributions to the theory of the BCS-BEC crossover, for providing theoretical understanding of angle-resolved photoemission experiments on superconducting and pseudo gap phases of the cuprate superconductors, and for providing rigorous bounds on the superconducting transition temperature in two-dimensional materials.” He received The Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award in 2023.

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