G. Ravindra Kumar

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| nationality = Indian

| fields = {{ublist | Plasma physics | Optical physics }}

| workplaces = {{ublist | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research }}

| alma_mater = {{ublist | BITS Pilani | IIT Kanpur }}

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| known_for = Studies on Ultrashort pulse and Warm dense matter

| awards = {{ublist| 2000 B. M. Birla Science Prize]] | 2003 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | 2005 Salute Mumbai Award | 2006 DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator Award| 2015 Infosys Prize }}

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Gattamraju Ravindra Kumar (born 15 June 1961) is an Indian laser physicist and a senior professor of Nuclear and Atomic Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Known for his research on Ultrashort pulse and Warm dense matter, Kumar is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2003.{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017-11-11 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-11-11}}{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}} He is also a recipient of the B. M. Birla Science Prize and Infosys Prize.

Biography

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Born on 15 June 1961, Ravindra Kumar did his graduate honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and continued there to earn an master's degree MSc honors degree in physics in 1983.{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P08-1461 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-10-21}} Subsequently, he enrolled for doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur from where he secured a PhD in 1990.{{Cite web |url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2015/ravindra-kumar-g.asp |title=Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF |date=2017-10-21 |website=Infosys Science Foundation |access-date=2017-10-21}} His post-doctoral work was also at IIT Kanpur and in 1992, he joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research where he is a senior professor of the Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics,{{Cite web |url=http://www.tifr.res.in/~dnap/index.php/members/people/14 |title=Faculty profile |date=2017-10-21 |website=TIFR - Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics |access-date=2017-10-21}} heading UPHILL (Ultra-short Laser Pulse High Intensity Laser Laboratory.{{Cite web |url=http://www.science.gov.au/international/International-science-news-and-events/Documents/STnewsletter_Nov2015.pdf |title=Infosys Science Foundation announces winners of Infosys Prize 2015 |date=November 2015 |website=Department of Industry, Innovation and Science - Government of Australia |access-date=2017-10-21}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.tifr.res.in/~uphill/contactus.html |title=UPHILL-TIFR |date=2017-10-21 |website=Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |access-date=2017-10-21}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.tifr.res.in/~uphill/ |title=Ultra-short Laser Pulse High Intensity Laser Laboratory |date=2017-10-21 |website=Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |access-date=2017-10-21}}

Legacy

Kumar is known to have established UPHILL (Ultra-short Laser Pulse High Intensity Laser Laboratory), a centre for advanced laser experiments at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.{{Cite web |url=http://www.indiainfoline.com/article/print/news-top-story/infosys-science-foundation-organizes-lecture-on-extreme-light-extreme-states-116032900258_1.html |title=lecture on "Extreme Light, Extreme States" |date=2017-10-21 |website=India Info Online |access-date=2017-10-21}} Here, he heads a group of scholars and researchers who are involved in studies related to laser-matter interactions. He is reported to have worked on the generation of megagauss magnetic pulses using ultrafast laser pulses{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=14 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-21}} and his group observed the turbulent magnetic fields created by instabilities of the high current electron beams driven by the laser pulse for the first time. Nanoparticle coated surfaces and pendular states of molecules are two of the other areas of his research.{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=2017-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/G_Ravindra_Kumar |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-10-17 |access-date=2017-10-17}}{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}} and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 75 of them.{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Kumar=3AGattamraju_Ravindra=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-10-21}} He has also guided a number of students in their doctoral studies. He is a member of the Optical Society of America and sits in the International Committee on Ultra-High Intensity Lasers of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.{{Cite web |url=https://www.icuil.org/ |title=ICUIL Members |date=2017-10-21 |website=International Committee on Ultra-High Intensity Lasers |access-date=2017-10-21}} He is also a life member of Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry,{{Cite web |url=http://www.ismas.org/members.aspx |title=ISMS Members |date=2017-10-21 |website=Indian Society For Mass Spectrometry |access-date=2017-10-21}} Indian Society of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Plasma Science Society of India{{Cite web |url=http://www.pssi.in/documents/2016-Oct-06%20PSSI%20Member%20List.pdf |title=PSSI Life members |date=2017-10-21 |website=Plasma Science Society of India |access-date=2017-10-21}} and Indian Laser Association.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ila.org.in/ |title=ILA Life Members |date=2017-10-21 |website=Indian Laser Association |access-date=2017-10-21}} Plenary or invited lectures delivered by him include the lecture on Extreme Light, Extreme States of Infosys Science Foundation in March 2016.

Awards and honors

Ravindra Kumar was awarded the B. M. Birla Science Prize by B. M. Birla Science Centre in 2000.{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2003/06/08/stories/2003060803970600.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030925095007/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2003/06/08/stories/2003060803970600.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 September 2003 |title=Fight poverty, Kalam tells scientists |date=8 June 2003 |website=The Hindu |access-date=2017-10-21}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |title=B. M. Birla Science Prize |date=2017-10-21 |website=B. M. Birla Science Centre |access-date=2017-10-21 |archive-date=28 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128175901/http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |url-status=dead }} The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2003.{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexdiscipline-wise |title=CSIR list of Awardees |date=2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research}} The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow in 2004{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Kumar,_Prof._Gattamraju_Ravindra |title=Fellow profile |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-10-21}} and he received the Salute Mumbai Award in 2005. The Department of Atomic Energy honored his work during the period between 2006 and 2011 with DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator Award and the elected fellowship of the Indian National Science Academy reached him in 2008.{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=21 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104001952/http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |archive-date=4 November 2016 |url-status=dead }} The Infosys Science Foundation presented the Infosys Prize to him in 2015. In 2017, Kumar became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.

Selected bibliography

{{Cite journal |last=G. Ravindra Kumar |title=Intense, ultrashort light and dense, hot matter |journal=Pramana - Journal of Physics |date=2009 |volume=73 |issue=1 |pages=113–155 |doi=10.1007/s12043-009-0095-7|bibcode=2009Prama..73..113R |s2cid=189870104 }}
{{Cite journal |last=Deepak More, Ch. Rajesh, Amit D. Lad, G. Ravindra Kumar, Shailaja Mahamuni |title=Two photon absorption in Mn²⁺-doped ZnSe quantum dots |journal=Optics Communications |date=2010 |volume=283 |issue=10 |pages=2150–2154 |doi=10.1016/j.optcom.2010.01.053|bibcode=2010OptCo.283.2150M }}
{{Cite book |last=Gattamraju Ravindra Kumar |title=12th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics |chapter=Plasmonics for Ultrahigh Intensity Light |journal=OSA Technical Digest |pages=T2C.3 |date=2014 |doi=10.1364/PHOTONICS.2014.T2C.3|isbn=978-1-55752-882-7 }}
{{Cite journal |last= Ravindra Kumar Gattamraju, Gourab Chatterjee, Prahshant Singh, Amitava Adak, Amit D. Lad, K. M. Schoeffler, L. O. Silva, Sudip Sengupta, P. K. Kaw, Amita Das |title=Laboratory simulation of astrophysical magnetic turbulence |journal=APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts |volume=2015 |pages=YO6.013 |date=2015 |bibcode=2015APS..DPPYO6013G}}
{{Cite journal |last= Ravindra Kumar Gattamraju, Moniruzzaman Shaikh, Amit Lad, Deep Sarkar, Kamalesh Jana, Indranuj Dey |title=Giant magnetic fields and relativistic electron transport in dense, hot plasmas created on solid targets |journal=APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts |volume=2016 |pages=YO5.013 |date=2016 |bibcode=2016APS..DPPYO5013G}}

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{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HioewRop7EA |title=Interview with Infosys Prize 2015 – Physical Sciences winner G. Ravindra Kumar |date=26 August 2016 |type=YouTube video |publisher=Infosys Prize |access-date=2017-10-21}}

Category:Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science

Category:Scientists from Mumbai

Category:1961 births

Category:Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Category:Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy

Category:Indian optical physicists

Category:Living people

Category:Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani alumni

Category:Academic staff of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Category:Indian plasma physicists