Professional Background

  • Nov 2024 - Present: Assistant Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Science, Kolkata, India.
  • April 2021- Oct 2024: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
  • Jan 2021- Mar 2021: Project Scientist, IIT Kanpur

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, India (2021)
  • M.Sc. (2 Yrs.), Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, India (2015)
  • B.Sc. (Physics), Krishnath College, University of Kalyani, India (2013)

Main area of Research

  • Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
  • Quantum Materials
  • Quantum Geometry
  • Optical properties and Plasmons
  • Low Dimensional Materials
  • Electronic Structure Theory


Selected Awards/Achievements & Grants

  • 2025: Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (PM-ECRG), ANRF, India
  • 2021: Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, IIT Kanpur, India.
  • 2016: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship for securing All India Rank 5 in NET, CSIR, India.
  • 2013: Basana Mazumdar award for obtaining highest marks (1st/408 students) in the B.Sc. degree in Physics, awarded by University of Kalyani, India.
  • 2010-2015: INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education, DST Goverment of India.

Significant Recent Publications

  •  J. Qiu, B. Ghosh, J. Schütte-Engel, T. Qian, M. Smith, Y. Yao, J. Ahn, Y. Liu, A. Gao, C. Tzschaschel, H. Li, I. Petrides, D. Bérubé, T. Dinh, T. Huang, O. Liebman, E. Been, J. Blawat, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, K. Fong, H. Lin, P. Orth, P. Narang, C. Felser, T. Chang, R. McDonald, R. McQueeney, A. Bansil, I. Martin, N. Ni, Q. Ma, D. Marsh, A. Vishwanath, S. Xu,  Observation of the axion quasiparticle in 2D MnBi2Te4,   Nature 641,62-69 (2025)


  • Barun Ghosh#, Yugo Onishi, Su-Yang Xu, Hsin Lin, Liang Fu, Arun Bansil, Probing quantum geometry through optical conductivity and magnetic circular dichroism, Science Advances 10, eado1761 (2024)
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