Srikanth Sastry is an Indian

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. He is a

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alumnus and he along with Raghunathan Srianand were awarded the

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in 2008. Sastry received his

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from

in 1993. Since then he has held roles as a

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at the

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and at

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. In 1998 he became

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Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) is a multidisciplinary research institute located at Jakkur, Bangalore, India. It was established by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, to ...

and since 2003 he has held a position as associate professor at

. He is currently a

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at the Theoretical Science Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur campus,

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

. Sastry's research interests are: * Slow dynamics in super cooled liquids and glass transition *

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liquids *

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and kinetics of phase transformation * Statistical

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* Anomalous thermodynamic and dynamic properties of water and other network forming liquids *

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of biomolecular systems.

Recognition

Sastry is the recipient of * Swarnajayanthi Fellowship: * Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards 2008: *

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, 2022

References

External links

* http://www.jncasr.ac.in/sastry {{DEFAULTSORT:Sastry, Srikanth Boston University alumni Living people Scientists from Bangalore 20th-century Indian physicists Thermodynamicists Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Physical Society