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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Sunil Mukhi
| image = Sunilmukhi.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{b-da|20 November 1956}}
| birth_place = India, Mumbai
| residence = [[India]]
| nationality = Indian
| field = [[Physics]]
| work_institution = [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune]]<br/>[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]<br/>[[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]
| alma_mater = [[St Xavier's College]] [[Mumbai]]<br />[[Stony Brook University]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[George Sterman]]
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = [[String Theory]]
| prizes = S.S. [[Bhatnagar Award]] 1999<br/> J.C. Bose Fellowship, 2008.
| religion =
| footnotes =
}}

'''Sunil Mukhi''' is an Indian theoretical physicist working in the areas of [[string theory]], [[quantum field theory]] and [[particle physics]]. Currently he is a physics professor at [[IISER Pune]]. He is also the dean of faculty there.

==Career==
He obtained a B.Sc. degree at [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]] and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1981 from [[Stony Brook University]] (also called the [[State University of New York at Stony Brook]]). After spending two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]] at [[Trieste]], [[Italy]], he returned to India where he worked at the [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] in Mumbai, India from 1984 to 2012. In 2012 he left the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research to join the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune]] as the head of the Physics Department, a position he held until 2018. In 2019 he became Dean, Faculty at the same institute.

==Research==
His major publications deal with fundamental properties of string theories, and include the conformal invariance of supersymmetric two-dimensional field theories which describe the world-sheet dynamics of strings,<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Alvarez-Gaumé | first1 = L. | last2 = Freedman | first2 = D. Z. | last3 = Mukhi | first3 = S. | title = The background field method and the ultraviolet structure of the supersymmetric nonlinear σ-model | doi = 10.1016/0003-4916(81)90006-3 | journal = Annals of Physics | volume = 134 | pages = 85 | year = 1981 |bibcode = 1981AnPhy.134...85A }}</ref> the study of supersymmetric solitons using index theorems,<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Imbimbo | first1 = C. | last2 = Mukhi | first2 = S. | doi = 10.1016/0550-3213(84)90559-5 | title = Index theorems and supersymmetry in the soliton sector | journal = Nuclear Physics B | volume = 247 | issue = 2 | pages = 471 | year = 1984 |bibcode = 1984NuPhB.247..471I }}</ref> the discovery of a new duality between string theory and M-theory,<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Dasgupta | first1 = K. | last2 = Mukhi | first2 = S. | doi = 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00070-3 | title = Orbifolds of M-theory | journal = Nuclear Physics B | volume = 465 | issue = 3 | pages = 399 | year = 1996 |arxiv = hep-th/9512196 |bibcode = 1996NuPhB.465..399D }}</ref> the identification of string networks as supersymmetric states<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Dasgupta | first1 = K. | last2 = Mukhi | first2 = S. | doi = 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00140-3 | title = BPS nature of 3-string junctions | journal = Physics Letters B | volume = 423 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 261 | year = 1998 |arxiv = hep-th/9711094 |bibcode = 1998PhLB..423..261D }}</ref> and the discovery of a novel Higgs mechanism in the worldvolume theory of M-theory membranes.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mukhi | first1 = S. | last2 = Papageorgakis | first2 = C. | doi = 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/085 | title = M2 to D2 | journal = Journal of High Energy Physics | volume = 2008 | issue = 5 | pages = 085 | year = 2008 |arxiv = 0803.3218 |bibcode = 2008JHEP...05..085M }}</ref>

==Other activities==
In 2002, he played a role<ref>{{cite press|last=Ramachandran|first=R|title=The Vice-Chancellor of Kumaun University and a research group led by him stand accused of having indulged in various forms of misconduct in research, including plagiarism|volume=19|issue=22|url=http://frontlineonnet.com/fl1922/stories/20021108003508400.htm|publisher=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]|location=[[India]]|date=2002-10-26|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014024552/http://frontlineonnet.com/fl1922/stories/20021108003508400.htm|archive-date=2007-10-14}}</ref> in exposing a series of instances of [[plagiarism]] by the Vice-Chancellor of Kumaon University in India. The Vice-Chancellor was eventually found guilty by a national committee<ref>{{cite press|title=Probe panel upholds plagiarism charges against Kumaon V-C|last=Bagla|first=Pallava|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/storyOld.php?storyId=17786|date=2003-02-03|publisher=[[The Indian Express]]|location=[[New Delhi]]}}</ref> and subsequently resigned.

Mukhi has a number of interests in addition to physics, notably [[Indian Classical Music]] on which he maintains a webpage [http://theory.tifr.res.in/~mukhi/Music/music.html], [[science]] popularisation which he carries out through seminars at schools and colleges as well as newspaper articles, and [[Film|cinema]], [[cooking]] and [[meditation]]. Within the field of Indian Classical Music he has spent considerable effort archiving classic recordings, particularly those of notable vocal artist [[Pandit Kumar Gandharva]] on whom he also maintains a webpage [http://theory.tifr.res.in/~mukhi/Music/gandharva.html]. He has previously written a blog, named "Tantu-jaal"[http://sunilmukhi.blogspot.com/]. Since May 2018 he has been the lead vocalist of the progressive heavy metal band Let's Keep Thinking, based on the [[IISER Pune]] campus.

==Honors==
Mukhi is a Fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], [[Indian National Science Academy]] and [[The World Academy of Sciences]], and a recipient of the S.S. [[Bhatnagar Award]] for Physical Sciences, 1999 and the J.C. Bose Fellowship, 2008. He has been an Editor of the [[Journal of High Energy Physics]] since its inception in 1997. He is Chair of the Panel on Scientific Values of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].

Mukhi was an invited speaker at the international conferences [https://web.archive.org/web/20080411002813/http://feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu/strings2000/ Strings 2000] in [[Michigan]], [http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/strings02/ Strings 2002] in [[Cambridge]] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20071023012528/http://ph-dep-th.web.cern.ch/ph-dep-th/content2/workshops/strings2008/ Strings 2008] in [[Geneva]]. He was one of the organisers of [http://theory.tifr.res.in/strings/ Strings 2001] in [[Mumbai]] — a conference that attracted much publicity because of the participation of [[David Gross]], [[Stephen Hawking]] and [[Edward Witten]]. He has also lectured at advanced schools in theoretical physics, notably at [[Cargèse]] and [[Les Houches]] in [[France]], at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005191550/http://www.mri.ernet.in/~sercthep/ SERC school] series in [[India]], and at the first PITP School at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]] during his sabbatical year there. He was a Visiting Fellow Commoner at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] during the Lent Term, 2012.

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://theory.tifr.res.in/~mukhi/index.html Sunil Mukhi's Home Page]
*[http://inspirehep.net/search?p=exactauthor%3ASunil.Mukhi.1&sf=earliestdate Sunil Mukhi's scientific publications]
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