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{{Infobox scientist
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| name = Pinaki Majumdar
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| residence = [[Allahabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
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| known_for = Studies on metal-insulator transition, [[High-temperature superconductivity|High T<sub>c</sub> Superconductors]], [[Superfluidity]], [[Ultracold atom|Ultracold Quantum Gases]], [[optical lattice|Optical Lattices]] and [[Nanoscopic scale|nanoscale]] texture formation
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'''Pinaki Majumdar''' (born 26 January 1964) is an Indian condensed matter physicist and the director of the [[Harish-Chandra Research Institute]]. Known for his research on correlated [[quantum systems]], Majumdar is a recipient of the Global Indus Technovator Award of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2007.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017-11-11 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

== Biography ==
[[File:IISc Admin Building.jpg|thumb|left|Indian Institute of Science]]
Born on 26 January 1964 in [[West Bengal]], Pinaki Majumdar graduated in engineering from [[Jadavpur University]] in 1986 and continued his studies at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Madras]] from where he earned a master's degree (MTech) in 1990.<ref name="Biographical Information">{{Cite web |url=http://www.hri.res.in/~pinaki/ |title=Biographical Information |date=2017-10-31 |website=Harish-Chandra Research Institute |access-date=2017-10-31}}</ref> His doctoral studies were at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] and after earning a PhD in 1996, he did his post-doctoral work at [[Bell Laboratories]], New Jersey for a couple of years. Returning to India, he joined [[Harish-Chandra Research Institute]] as a fellow in 1998. He has since held various positions at HRI such as those of a reader (2001–03) and an associate professor (2003–07) before becoming a full-time professor in 2007. He continues his association with the institute, holding the positions of the director and grade-1 professor.<ref name="Director and Professor I">{{Cite web |url=http://www.hri.res.in/people/Physics/pinaki |title=Director and Professor I |date=2017-10-31 |website=Harish-Chandra Research Institute |access-date=2017-10-31}}</ref><ref name="Prof Pinaki Majumdar has been Appointed as Director HRI Allahabad">{{Cite web |url=http://psukhabar.com/?p=3203 |title=Prof Pinaki Majumdar has been Appointed as Director HRI Allahabad |date=30 March 2017 |website=PSU Khabar |access-date=2017-10-31}}</ref> He also serves as a professor at [[Homi Bhabha National Institute]].<ref name="Pinaki Majumdar - faculty">{{Cite web |url=http://www.hbni.ac.in/faculty/HRI/hrial_phys_majumdar_pinaki.htm |title=Pinaki Majumdar - faculty |date=2017-10-31 |website=Homi Bhabha National Institute |access-date=2017-10-31}}</ref>

== Legacy and honors ==
Majumdar's research was mainly focused on ''disordered and strongly correlated [[quantum systems]]'' and his studies have assisted in a wider understanding of the metal-insulator transition.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=266 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> He is also reported to have contributed to the studies of ''[[Nanoscopic scale|nanoscale]] texture formation and colossal response driven by external fields''.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=2017-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pinaki_Majumdar2 |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-10-17 |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[Google Scholar]], an online article repository of scientific articles, has listed 93 of them.<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=MCQDGXkAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2017-10-31 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2017-10-31}}</ref>

Majumdar won the Institute Merit Prize and Silver Medal of the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Madras]] in 1990 when he passed out of the institute.<ref name="Pinaki Majumdar - faculty" /> The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded Pinaki the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2007.<ref name="CSIR list of Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexdiscipline-wise |title=CSIR list of Awardees |date=2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research}}</ref> He received two awards in 2008; the Outstanding Research Investigator Award of the Safety Review Committee of the [[Department of Atomic Energy]] ([[Atomic Energy Regulatory Board#DAE Safety Review Committee .28DAE-SRC.29|DAE-SRC]] and the Global Indus Technovator Award of [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].<ref name="Materials and Energy Category">{{Cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/technovators/gita/2008_winners_materials.html |title=Materials and Energy Category |date=2017-10-31 |website=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |access-date=2017-10-31}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |last=Pinaki Majumdar, H. R. Krishnamurthy |title=Lattice Contraction Driven Insulator-Metal Transition in the d=∞ Local Approximation |journal= Phys. Rev. Lett. |date=1995 |volume=74 |issue=3303 |pages = 1525–1528|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1525|pmid = 10056815|bibcode=1994PhRvL..73.1525M }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Pinaki Majumdar, Peter B. Littlewood |title=Dependence of magnetoresistivity on charge-carrier density in metallic ferromagnets and doped magnetic semiconductors |journal=Nature |date=1998 |volume=395 |issue=6701 |pages=479–481 |doi=10.1038/26703|bibcode=1998Natur.395..479M |s2cid=204997491 }}
* {{cite book|author1=Sumathi Rao (editor)|author2=Pinkai Majumdar (chapter author)|title=Field Theories in Condensed Matter Physics|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wuqmQJDeEa0C&pg=PA7|date=30 May 2002|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-7503-0876-2|pages=7–|chapter=Quantum Many Particle Physics}}

== See also ==
* [[Quantum systems]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite journal |last=Pinaki Majumdar, Peter Littlewood |title=Magnetoresistance in Mn pyrochlore: electrical transport in a low carrier density ferromagnet (full text) |journal=Physical Review Letters |arxiv=cond-mat/9708068 |date=2008 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1314 |s2cid=118977974 }}

== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X58EWXvkO64 |title=Thermal fluctuations in Fermi superfluids |last=Pinaki Majumdar |date=4 June 2013 |publisher=International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |format=YouTube video |access-date=2017-10-31}}

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