Srikanth Sastry#
| Membership Number: | 7458 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | INDIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.jncasr.ac.in/faculty/sastry |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7399-1835 |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=9ndLacoAAAAJ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008,10 - present Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
- 2012,04 - 2014,04 Professor, TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, TIFR, Hyderabad (on lien from JNCASR)
- 2003,10 - 2008,10 Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
- 1998,10 - 2003,10 Faculty Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
- 1998,02 - 1998,09 Visiting Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology/Arizona State University
- 1996,05 - 1997,12 Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
- 1993,11 - 1996,04 Visiting Fellow, Physical Sciences Laboratory, DCRT, National Institutes of Health
- 1986,09 - 1993,10 Research/Teaching Assistant: Center for Polymer Studies and Physics Department, Boston University (1993,05 – 1993,10 post-Ph D)
Fields of Scholarship
- Slow dynamics and the glass transition
- Energy landscapes
- Nucleation
- Anomalous thermodynamics and liquid-liquid transition in water and silicon
- Glassy behavior in biological matter
- Routes to jamming in sphere packings
- Mechanical properties of amorphous solids
- Self assembly design and addressable self-assembly
- Memory formation and adaptable materials
Honours and Awards
- 2025 - 2027 The Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship, UK
- 2024 Gauss Professorship, Göttingen Academy of Sciences
- 2022 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society
- 2015 Elected Fellow, Indian National Science Academy
- 2015 - 2025 J C Bose National Research Fellowship
- 2015 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- 2008 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, CSIR, India
- 2008 Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Elected Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences
- 2006 C V Raman Young Scientist State Award
- 2003 Swarnajayanthi Fellowship, DST
- 2001 B. M. Birla Science Prize
