Rohit Mukherjee
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowships |
| Project Title: | Topological Quantum Transport in Frustrated Magnets |
| Field of Study: | Physics |
| Home Institution: | Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh |
| Host Institution: | Indian Institute of Technology , Cornell University, NY |
| Grant Start Month: | August 2023 |
| Duration of Grant: | Nine months |
Brief Bio:
Mr. Rohit Mukherjee is a Ph.D. candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He is working on various aspects of condensed matter physics with a focus on the topological transport signatures in strongly correlated systems. He graduated from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College in Kolkata with a bachelor’s degree and has a master’s degree in physics from IIT Kanpur. In August 2022, Mr. Mukherjee was a visiting student at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
Mr. Mukherjee is a teaching volunteer at PRAYAS, an initiative by IITK students to assist underprivileged school children near the university. He also enjoys traveling and meeting new people from different backgrounds and cultures. He is passionate about educating the general public about science and science communication.
As a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research fellow, Mr. Mukherjee is exploring topological spin transport in frustrated magnetic systems, such as spin liquids. A deeper understanding of these exotic states of matter can also shed light on the physics of the pseudo-gap phase in high-temperature superconductors, which is one of the biggest open questions in the field of condensed matter physics as well as fault-tolerant quantum computing.