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Mr. Adway Kumar Das is a Ph.D. candidate at IISER Kolkata, West Bengal. His doctoral thesis focuses on how the statistical properties of the energy spectrum and states of various random matrix model manifests in the dynamics of single-particle quantum mechanical systems. His research has been published in peer-reviewed international journals like Physical Review E, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, and Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (JSTAT). He has presented at several national and international conferences like Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD), Statphys-Kolkata, and Nordita-Stockholm conference on Ergodicity Breaking and Integrability in Long-Range Systems and on Random Graphs, 2022.

Mr. Das holds a BS-MS dual degree from IISER Kolkata, West Bengal, where he was awarded the second-best thesis by the Department of Physical Sciences. He was awarded the Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) fellowship in 2021 by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He is also a member of the IISER Kolkata student chapter of OPTICA. While Physics keeps Mr. Das occupied, he is also interested in social work and loves to travel. He particularly enjoys trekking in Sikkim and strolling along the beaches of Kerala. He is an avid fan of Bayern Munich and relishes the works of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Sidney Sheldon and Dan Brown.

As a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research fellow, Mr. Das is exploring the correlations among the energy levels of banded random matrices and corresponding Hilbert space structure. He is primarily working on the spectral statistics and quenched dynamics to address the loss of ergodicity and thermalization in single-particle quantum mechanical systems.

Dr. Swayam Sampurna Panigrahi is an assistant professor in IFMR-GSB, Sri City. Before this, she worked with IPE Hyderabad, IMI Bhubaneswar, and Woxsen University. She holds a doctorate degree from XIMB, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha in supply chain sustainability. She was a TEQIP scholarship awardee from the Government of India during her MTech from VSSUT Burla, where she was also adjudged as the University Best Postgraduate in production engineering. She has a BTech in mechanical engineering.

Dr. Panigrahi’s research interests are business and human rights, e-waste management, and Industry 4.0 application in operations. She received the “MSME Fellowship” from NIMSME, Hyderabad, under the Ministry of MSME, Government of India in 2017. She has won two Best Paper awards at WIPRO Sustainability Summit in 2016 and at the 105th Indian Economic Association Annual International Conference in 2022. She received two consecutive Emerald Literati awards by the Emerald Publishing House, Bingley, UK in 2019 and 2020. She was also recognized as “LinkedIn Top Voice” in business management, business operations and lean manufacturing in 2023. She is an associate member of the Business and Human Rights Forum at Columbia University.

Human rights issues in global textile and apparel supply chains require joint attention from policy makers, civil society members, and supply chain researchers. As a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research fellow at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Dr. Panigrahi’s research is uncovering gross human rights violations. Her objective is to develop a generic framework to address these challenges through exchange of best practices across the U.S. and India.