Atish Dabholkar

Atish Dabholkar
Born
India
Alma mater
Known forStudies on quantum gravity, black holes and string theory
Awards SS Bhatnagar Prize (2006)
ANR Chaire d'Excellence (2007)
National Leadership Award (2008)
Distinguished Alumnus Award (2023)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsRutgers University
Harvard University
California Institute of Technology
TIFR
Stanford University
CNRS
CERN
ICTP
Doctoral advisor

Atish Dabholkar (Marathi अतीश दाभोलकर) is an Indian theoretical physicist. He is currently the Director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) [1] with the rank of Assistant Director-General, UNESCO. Prior to that, he was head of ICTP's High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics section,[2] and also Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Sorbonne University in the "Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies" (LPTHE).

  1. ^ Castelvecchi, Davide; Makoni, Munyaradzi (14 November 2019). "Physics institute focused on developing countries gets a new leader". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03512-5. PMID 33184467. S2CID 214093705.
  2. ^ "Following in Salam's footsteps". International Centre for Theoretical Physics. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2017.