Srikanth Sastry - Curriculum Vitae#

Professor, Theoretical Sciences Unit and School of Advanced Materials
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
Jakkur Campus, Bangalore 560064, INDIA

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., 1993, Boston University, in Physics
  
• M.A., 1989, Boston University, in Physics
  
• B.Sc. 1984, Bangalore University, Bangalore, in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics

APPOINTMENTS

• 2008 - present Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
  
• 2012 - 2014 Professor, TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad (on lien)
  
• 2003 - 2008 Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
  
• 1998 - 2003 Faculty Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

PRINCIPAL HONORS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RECOGNITION

• The Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship, UK, 2025 - 27.
  
• Gauss Professorship, Göttingen Academy of Sciences, 2024.
  
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 2022.
  
• J C Bose National Research Fellowship, 2015 – 2025.
  
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2015.
  
• Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India, 2008
  
• Fellow, Indian Academy of Science, India, 2008
  
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, CSIR, India, 2008.
  
• Sir C V Raman Young Scientist Award, KSCST, India, 2006
  
• Swarnajayanthi Fellowship, DST, 2003

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Slow dynamics in supercooled liquids and the glass transition; Other routes to structural arrents in soft matter (Jamming – shear jamming, in particular and gelation) ; Mechanical properties of glasses and other amorphous solids and their yielding behavior; fatigue failure; Memory formation and adaptable materials; Anomalous thermodynamic and dynamical properties, liquid-liquid phase transitions in water, silicon and other network forming liquids; Self-assembly design and addressable self-assembly; Glassy behavior in biological matter.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Selected)

(1) Editorial boards Series Editor, Soft and Biological Matter, Springer Nature, 2025 – ; Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 – ; Member, Editorial Board, Current Science, 2016 – 2018; Associate Editor, Resonance: Journal of Science Education (Indian Academy of Sciences), 2015 – 2018; The European Physical Journal E, Soft Matter, 2008 – ; Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2004

(2) Committees. Chair, International Program Committee, 10th International Soft Matter Conference (ISMC2026), Goa, India; Member, international advisory committee, STATPHYS 23 (2007) – 29 (2025). Organization of Technical Conferences. Co-organizer "Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics" 1999, ICTP, Trieste, Italy – Bengaluru, India, 2025. . Co-Coordinator, "The Physics of Glasses", April 12 - July 9, 2010, KITP, Santa Barbara, USA. Co-Coordinator, “Memory Formation in Matter”, KITP, Santa Barbara, USA, Jan 2, 2018 - Mar 9, 2018.