Professional Background

  • Professor, SNBNCBS (2022-Present)
  • Associate Professor, SNBNCBS (2017-2022)
  • Assistant Professor, SNBNCBS (2012- 2017)
  • Visiting Faculty, Kansas State University, Kansas, USA (2012)




Educational Background

  • MSc, School of Physical Sciences, JNU, New Delhi 2003.
  • PhD: SSCU, IISc, Bangalore (2009).
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University (2009-2012)


Main area of Research : Strongly correlated system, quantum computing, modelling of materials, Development of Numerical Methods

Selected Awards & Achievements :

  • Ramanujan Fellowship (2013- 2018)
  • Postdoctoral Partner Travel grant at Princeton University (funded by The Elsevier Foundation) (2009-2012)
  • UGC CSIR JRF (2003-2005) and SRF (2005-2008)


Student Supervision :

Significant recent publications:

Google Scholar


  1.  Quantum phase diagram of ferromagnetically coupled singlet dimers on a distorted Shastry-Sutherland lattice, Monalisa Chatterjee, Santanu Pal, and Manoranjan Kumar, APS Open Sci. 1, 000011
  2. Emergent quasiparticles of the spin-1  trimer chain, Phys. Rev. B 112, 094436
  3. Polarization-Driven Charge Frustration and Emergent Phases in the One-Dimensional Extended Hubbard Model, Sourabh Saha, Jeroen van den Brink, Manoranjan Kumar, and Satoshi Nishimoto, Physical Review Letters 135, 206504 (2025) (Editors' Suggestion)
  4. Exploring quantum phases in frustrated spin-1/2 chain and ladders: a detailed review, Manodip Routh, Sayan Ghosh and Manoranjan Kumar, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 37 403001, (2025)
  5. Emergent many-body composite excitations of interacting spin-1/2 trimers, Anup Kumar Bera, S. M. Yusuf, Sudip Kumar Saha, Manoranjan Kumar, David Voneshen, Yurii Skourski & Sergei A. Zvyagin, Nature Communications (2022) 13:6888