Mr. Krishnakanta Bhattacharya is currently a research scholar in the Physics Department of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam. His focus is understanding the thermodynamics of gravity and its different aspects. He has eight publications to his credit in top-tier journals such as Physical Review D, Nuclear Physics B, and Classical and Quantum Gravity. His articles address several different areas of gravitational physics, including the connection between gravity and thermodynamics, scalar-tensor models of gravity, and non-commutative geometries.

Mr. Bhattacharya completed his graduation and master’s from the renowned Visva-Bharati University. He was the recipient of the prestigious INSPIRE fellowship during his BSc and MSc years. He was recently selected for the Distinguished Student Award by the American Physical Society (APS) and invited to attend the APS April Meeting, 2019. Last year, he achieved the Best Poster Award in the Research Conclave of IIT Guwahati. Outside research, he involves himself in sports, yoga, and music.

During the Fulbright-Nehru fellowship period, Mr. Bhattacharya is working on theoretical gravitational research and specifically on investigating the correspondence between the equations of fluids dynamics and the equations of gravity, i.e., Einstein’s equations. This will provide insight into the scalar-tensor theory and increase understanding of fluid-gravity correspondence.