Shiraz Minwalla

Early life Born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, in 1972, to a Parsi Zoroastrian father (Naval) and a Bohra Muslim mother (Khadija), Minwalla graduated from Campion School, Mumbai in 1988 and then Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1995. He later moved to Princeton University to earn his PhD under the guidance of Nathan Seiberg. Minwalla was awarded the 2014 New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Fundamental Physics Prize for "his pioneering contributions to the study of string theory and quantum field theory; and in particular his work on the connection between the equations of fluid dynamics and Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity." In 2016, The World Academy of Sciences awarded him the TWAS Prize in Physics.

Notable contributions to the field Analysis of primary operators on AdS4 and AdS7 Three-point functions in N=4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory and AdS/CFT Noncommutative perturbative dynamics (with Nathan Seiberg and Mark Van Raamsdonk) Noncommutative solitons (with Andrew Strominger and Rajesh Gopakumar) OM-theory (with Nathan Seiberg, Andrew Strominger and Rajesh Gopakumar) Stringy interactions in pp-waves Some insights about tachyon condensation Dualities in supersymmetric gauge theories, in particular Chern-Simons-matter theories Fluid-Gravity correspondence, the connections between hydrodynamics and AdS/CFT.(with Sayantani Bhattacharyya)

Personal life Shiraz Minwalla lives in Mumbai with his wife and their two children.

Selected works