Assistant Professor, Theoretical Physics
IISER Kolkata,
Mohanpur Campus
PO: BCKV Campus Main Office,
Mohanpur - 741252,
Nadia, West Bengal
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Personal information
| Full name | : | Ritesh Kumar SINGH |
| Date of Birth | : | 18th February 1977 |
| Place of Birth | : | Chapara, Bihar, INDIA |
| Gender | : | Male |
| Nationality | : | INDIAN |
Present Academic Status
- Assistant Professor
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In the Department of Physical Sciences at IISER - Kolkata from November,
2010.
Academic backgrounds
- Post-doctoral fellow
- With Prof. Werner Porod at Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik II, Universität Würzburg, from December 2007 till September 2010.
- Post-doctoral fellow
- Under CEFIPRA project with Prof. Fawzi Boudjema and Prof. Genevieve Belanger at LAPTH, Annecy from February 2007 till November 2007.
- Post-doctoral fellow
- under CEFIPRA project with Prof. Abdelhak Djouadi at Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Orsay from December 2005 till January, 2007.
- Ph.D in Physics
- from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 2006. Thesis on "Study of CP-violation and determination of Higgs boson properties at future colliders" submitted in November, 2005 under the supervision of Prof. Rohini M. Godbole.
- M.S. in Physics
- from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 2001. Thesis on "Signatures of CP violation and physics beyond the Standard Model in γγ-collider" submitted in April, 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Rohini M. Godbole.
- B.Sc. in Physics
- with Honors from Ranchi University, Ranchi, India in 1998 with first division.
Research interests
- Beyond the Standard Model phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), International Linear Collider (ILC) and Photon Linear Collider (PLC),
- Characterization of (non-)standard Higgs bosons at various colliders,
- CP violation in various fundamental interactions,
- Polarization/spin measurement of top quark and other fundamental particles,
- Role of beam polarization at ILC and PLC,
- Phenomenology of KK-excitations in various extra-dimension models.
Awards/Grants received
- Junior Research Fellowship for 2003-2005 received from Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Government of India.
- Secured a position in top 20% for National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lecturer-ship, in June 2002 (result declared at the end of 2002). Awarded by a certificate for the same.
- Junior Research Fellowship for 2000-2003 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
- Integrated Ph.D. Fellowship for 1998-2000 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
- Secured a position in "top 5" in National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE) organized by Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT), 1997. Awarded by a Gold medal and a certificate for the same.
- Secured a position in "top 25" in NGPE, 1996. Awarded by a certificate for the same.
Also see the PS/PDF version of list of publication.