Rahul Pandit#
| Membership Number: | 7462 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | INDIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~rahul |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0948-8834 |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=75RHOJQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
Present and Previous Positions
- March 1990 - 1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- March 1996 - 2002 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- March 2002 - July 2021 Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- since 1 August 2021 Honorary Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- April 2001 - March 2008 Chair, International Relations Cell, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- April 2008 - September 2020 Chair, Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- Elected Chair of the C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) January 2018 - October 2021
- Elected Vice President of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) November 2017 - October 2021
- 1 August 2007 - 30 June 2023 JC Bose National Fellow
- Since 1 July 2023 National Science Chair
Fields of Scholarship
- Spiral- and scroll-wave turbulence in mathematical models for cardiac tissue
- AI-ML applications
- Statistical properties of fluid, passive-scalar, magnetohydrodynamic
- Active-fluid turbulence
- Multi-fluid turbulence
- Burgers turbulence
- Fuid turbulence with polymers
- Superfluid turbulence
- Statistical physics of condensed-matter systems and phase transitions
- Turbulence
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy - 1988
- 1 January 1996 Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc)
- 2001 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- 2004 Meghnad Saha Award of the University Grants Commission
- 1 January 2006 Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (FNA)
- 1 August 2007 - 30 June 2023 JC Bose National Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology and SERB, India
- 2009 Professor Rustom Choksi Award of the Indian Institute of Science
- October 2009 - 2012 MSIL Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science
- August 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- 2012 Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals of the American Physical Society
- November 2015 Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (FTWAS)
- 11 April 2017 Goyal Prize for Physical Sciences
- 2021 Satyendranath Bose Medal of the Indian National Science Academy
- Since 1 July 2023 National Science Chair SERB, India
- 10 October 2025 Named a American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. "For important contributions to challenging and fundamental problems in statistical and nonlinear physics, and for extensive service to the community."
