page_title: G. Ravindra Kumar
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: G. Ravindra Kumar / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial View BITS Pilani, 2014 taken by RC club
context_page_description: Gattamraju Ravindra Kumar is an Indian laser physicist and a senior professor of Nuclear and Atomic Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Known for his research on Ultrashort pulse and Warm dense matter, Kumar is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. 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 2003. He is also a recipient of the B. M. Birla Science Prize and Infosys Prize.
context_section_description: Born on 15 June 1961, Ravindra Kumar did his graduate honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and continued there to earn an master's degree MSc honors degree in physics in 1983. Subsequently, he enrolled for doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur from where he secured a PhD in 1990. His post-doctoral work was also at IIT Kanpur and in 1992, he joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research where he is a senior professor of the Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics, heading  UPHILL (Ultra-short Laser Pulse High Intensity Laser Laboratory.
caption: Aerial View BITS Pilani
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