Bikas Chakrabarti

Bikas K. Chakrabarti is Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, India. His research interests include physics of fracture, quantum glasses and the interdisciplinary sciences of optimisation, brain modelling, and econophysics. Professor Chakrabarti is a recipient of the S. S. Bhatnagar Award (1997). He has also received the Outstanding Referee Award of the American Physical Society (2010). He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences.