Indranil Chakraborty
Mumbai, Maharashtra| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowships |
| Project Title: | Exploring the implications of gravitational wave memory effects in cosmology and modified gravity |
| Field of Study: | Physics |
| Home Institution: | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra |
| Host Institution: | University of Virginia , Charlottesville, VA |
| Grant Start Month: | October 2025 |
| Duration of Grant: | Twenty-four months |
Brief Bio:
Dr. Indranil Chakraborty is currently an institute postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where he has been working since May 2023. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, affiliated with University of Calcutta, in 2015. He then completed both his master’s degree in physics (2017) and PhD (2023) at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal.
Dr. Chakraborty’s research interests lie in gravitational physics, particularly in the study of gravitational wave memory effects — a subtle and yet-to-be-detected phenomenon predicted by general relativity. Over the years, he has authored several research articles, including a single-author publication in reputed international journals.
As a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Dr. Chakraborty is investigating how gravitational wave memory effects manifest in cosmological settings. His project also aims to develop a formalism for calculating memory effects in modified theories of gravity. This research is crucial for next-generation gravitational wave detectors, as they are expected to probe potential deviations from general relativity — currently the best-verified theory of gravity.