Srikanth Sastry
Srikanth Sastry is an Indian physicist. He is a Boston University alumnus and he along with Raghunathan Srianand were awarded the Shanti Swarup [Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology] in physical sciences in 2008.
Sastry received his PhD from Boston University in 1993 under supervision of H. Eugene Stanley. Since then he has held roles as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health and at Princeton University. In 1998 he became faculty fellow at Jawaharlal [Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research] and since 2003 he has held a position as associate professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. He is currently a professor at the Theoretical Science Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur campus, Bangalore.
Sastry's research interests are:
- Slow dynamics in super cooled liquids and glass transition
- Metastable liquids
- Phase transitions and kinetics of phase transformation
- Statistical geometry
- Anomalous thermodynamic and dynamic properties of water and other network forming liquids
- Statistical mechanics of biomolecular systems.
Recognition
Sastry is the recipient of- Swarnajayanthi Fellowship:
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards 2008:
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2022