page_title: E. V. Sampathkumaran
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: E. V. Sampathkumaran / Biography
caption_attribution_description: தமிழ்: சென்னைப் பல்கலைக்கழகத்தின் கட்டுமானத் தோற்றம்
context_page_description: Echur Varadadesikan Sampathkumaran is an Indian condensed matter physicist and a Distinguished Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Known for his research on the thermal and transport behaviour of magnetic systems, Sampathkumaran is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India as well as The World Academy of Sciences. 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 1999.
context_section_description: E. V. Sampathkumaran, born on 6 December 1954 in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, earned his BSc degree from the University of Madras before obtaining a master's degree from Annamalai University. Subsequently, he joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research as a member of faculty in 1976. During this period, he enrolled at the University of Mumbai for doctoral studies on valence fluctuations in rare-earth compounds and secured a PhD in 1982, guided by Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan, a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate. He did his post-doctoral work on valence fluctuations as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, under the guidance of G. Kaindl, during 1983–84 and returned to TIFR to resume his career there. Barring two sabbaticals, the first as an Indo-Waseda Exchange Visitor for two months in 1988 to Japan and the other, a two-month stint at Paderborn University in 1996, his entire career was spent at TIFR, holding various positions. During 2008–10, he chaired the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science after which he served as the dean of the Natural Sciences faculty from 2010 to 2013. After his superannuation in 2014, he continues his association with the institute as a Distinguished Professor. He also had a brief stint as the director of the institute during April–July 2015 and served as an Honorary Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research from 2001 to 2015.
caption: University of Madras
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