!!Srikanth Sastry - Curriculum Vitae
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Professor, Theoretical Sciences Unit and School of Advanced Materials\\
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)\\
Jakkur Campus, Bangalore 560064, INDIA\\
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__EDUCATION__
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*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
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__APPOINTMENTS__
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*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
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__PRINCIPAL HONORS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RECOGNITION__ 
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*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
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__RESEARCH INTERESTS__ \\
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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.\\
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__PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES__ (Selected) 
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(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
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(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.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit ssastry}][{ALLOW upload ssastry}][{ALLOW comment All}]