Kumble R. Subbaswamy is the 11th and current chancellor of the

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. He formerly served as the provost of

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. He is a member of the

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and also an elected fellow of the American Physical Society, and has research interests in computational chemistry and condensed matter physics. On June 2, Subbaswamy announced that he would retire from being the chancellor by the end of June 2023.

Early life and education

Subbaswamy was born in the city of

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. He earned a

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degree in Physics from

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, a

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in Physics from

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, and a

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in Physics from

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Career

Academia

He served as

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in the Department of Physics at

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from 1976 to 1978. He later joined as

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in 1978 and rose to become the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1993 to 1997. He also served as Adjunct professor (Professore a contratto) at

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in 1990. He later served as the

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of the College of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Physics at both

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and

. He then served as the provost of

. After becoming chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012, he and his wife worked with the UMass Permaculture Committee to create a sustainable garden featuring

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n plants at their Hillside residence on campus.

Books, Research Papers and Journals

Kumble Subbaswamy is a published author and coauthor of several books, research papers and journals. * Local Density Theory of Polarizability (Physics of Solids and Liquids) (Publisher: Springer, Publication Year: 1st ed. 1990 edition (31 December 2013); ).

References

External links

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