Autor: Prafulla Kumar Behera

Dr. Prafulla Behera is currently an associate professor at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He obtained his Ph.D. from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and a research scientist at the University of Iowa, USA. His major research interests include experimental particle physics, detector building and data analysis. Dr. Behera was a member of BABAR experiment, Stanford, USA and ATLAS experiment, Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, he is a member of CMS and INO experiments, and he is also a member of the international advisory committee of VERTEX conference. He has published more than 1000 articles in respected international journals. He serves as a referee for several American Physical Society journals.  Dr. Vipin Bhatnagar is currently a professor at the Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He obtained his Ph.D. from Panjab University, Chandigarh, following which he was a postdoctoral fellow at LAL Orsay, France and CERN associate, CERN, Geneva. His major areas of research include experimental particle physics, detector building, computational physics and data analysis. He is a member of NOv A experiment, Fermilab, USA and CMS experiment, Geneva, Switzerland. He has more than 700 journal articles in international peer-reviewed journals.  Dr. Prashant Shukla is a professor at the Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai. He obtained his Ph.D. from Mumbai University, India. His research interests include high energy nuclear collisions, quark gluon plasma, and cosmic ray physics. Currently, he is a member of CMS and INO collaboration. He has published more than 150 articles in international journals of repute.  Dr. Rahul Sinha is currently a professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. He obtained his M.A and Ph.D from Rochester, USA, which was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research primarily focuses on theoretical particle physics. Dr. Sinha is a member of BELLE and BELLE II experiment at KEK, Japan. He has supervised 11 doctoral students, and has also published more than 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.