Suvrat Raju

Suvrat Raju is an Indian physicist. He is known for his work on black holes. He was awarded the 2019 ICTP Prize and the 2022 Nishina Asia award.

Research

Raju advanced a potential resolution of the black hole information paradox, which is based on the idea that "all the information inside a black hole can be recovered from outside" in quantum gravity. Together with Kyriakos Papadodimas, Raju formulated the Papadodimas-Raju proposal for black holes Raju was part of a collaboration that proposed the utility of the Mellin transform in AdS/CFT arguing that it provided a "natural language" for correlation functions. Raju was part of a collaboration that developed an "index" for quantum field theories with super-conformal symmetry.

Career Raju studied physics at St. Stephen's College in Delhi University from 1999 to 2002. He earned his PhD at Harvard University in 2008. He is currently a professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Awards and honours 2022 Nishina Asia award 2019 ICTP Prize 2015 Smt. Saraswathi Cowsik medal 2013 Indian National Science Academy medal for young scientists 2013 National Academy of Sciences of India young scientist award

Selected publications

Public advocacy Raju criticized aspects of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal arguing, with M. V. Ramana, that the Indian nuclear liability bill favored foreign nuclear corporations and that the nuclear reactors that the Indian government was planning to import were expensive. Raju was part of a team of scientists that released a report on the protests at Hyderabad central University in 2016 that was critical of the actions of the university administration. Raju was part of a group of scientists who argued that the 2019 Indian Citizenship (Amendment) Act was discriminatory.