Prof. Arghya Taraphder

Professor and former HoD, Dept of Physics and Centre for Theoretical Studies, IIT Kharagpur PhD: IISc Bangalore 1991 PhD guidance: 7 completed 1 submitted Postdoctoral Associate in the Condensed Matter Physics Group, Rutgers University, USA: Aug. 1991 - Jan. 1993 Visiting Scientist, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, USA: Aug. 1991 - Jan. 1993 Visiting Scientist, LEPES, CNRS, Grenoble, France: Feb. 1993 – July 1994 Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, July 1999 Visiting Professor, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, Feb. 2001-Apr. 2001 Visiting Associate, ICTP, Trieste Italy, May 2001-July 2001 Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, May 2001- July 2001 Visiting Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, May 2003 Visiting Associate, ICTP, Trieste Italy, June 2003-Aug 2003 Visiting Professor, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, Aug-Sep 2003 Visiting Professor, ICMM, CSIC, Madrid, Spain Oct. 2003- Sep. 2004 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, Oct. 2004 - Dec. 2004 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, May 2005 - July 2005 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, May 2006 - July 2006 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, May 2007 - July 2007 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, Jan 2008 - April 2008 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, May 2009 – July 2009 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, May 2010 – July 2010 Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, June 2013- July 2013 Visiting Professor, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, Aug 2014 Academia Sinica Foreign Expert, Yangchen Institute of Technology, China, Dec. 2014, June 2015 Research Interests: Problems in Condensed-Matter Physics -- Correlated and disordered electronic systems, Phase transitions, Statistical mechanics including biological and other complex systems.
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