Sandip Trivedi ( hi, सन्दिप त्रिवेदी; born 1963) is an
Indian theoretical physicist working at Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (
TIFR) at
Mumbai,
India, while he is its current director. He is well known for his contributions to
string theory
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, in particular finding (along with
Renata Kallosh,
Andrei Linde, and
Shamit Kachru
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) the first models of accelerated expansion of the universe in low energy supersymmetric string (see
KKLT mechanism
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). His research areas include string theory, cosmology and particle physics. He is now member of program advisory board of International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS). He is also the recipient of the
Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of
Physical Sciences.
Education
He completed his
master of science (Integrated) in physics from
IIT Kanpur in 1985. He was awarded his
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in 1990 from
Caltech,
Pasadena, USA. Later he went on to work as a
post-doctoral research associate at
IAS,
Princeton until 1992.
Awards
He won the prestigious
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in the Physical Sciences in 2005. He was the recipient of the
Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of Physical Sciences.
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He is also a recipient of the TWAS Prize
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in Physics in 2015.
References
External links
Sandip Trivedi's Home Page at TIFR
List of Publications on SPIRES
20th-century Indian physicists
Indian string theorists
Living people
1963 births
IIT Kanpur alumni
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research faculty
TWAS laureates
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