Mott Insulators : Physics and applications

Sindhunil Barman Roy received his BSc (Hons) degree in Physics (in 1977) from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, and MSc degree in Physics (in 1980) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He obtained his PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1985. Subsequently, between 1986 and 1991, he was a postdoctoral research associate in Imperial College, London and the University of Florida, Gainesville. He was a staff member of the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore from 1992 to 2018, and also a professor of the Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai between 2007 and 2018. Presently he is an emeritus professor in UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore. His research interests span both basic and applied aspects of magnetism and superconductivity and he has published more than 200 research papers in international peer reviewed journals. He served on the editorial board of Superconductor Science and Technology between 2008 and 2014. He is a recipient of the Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award of the Department of Atomic Energy, India and a fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK