CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

    Mithun Thudiyangal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics.

    He:

    • Delivers lectures and engages laboratory classes to postgraduate students of Photonics, Nanoscience and Technology, and undergraduate Physics courses.
    • Participates in research-related activities.
    1. Guest editor of the special issue “Non-Ergodicty in dynamical systems” for the Elsevier journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 2019 – 2021. 
    2. Referee for the various journals - Physical Review (A, B & E), Physica A, Journal of statistical Physics, Journal of Chaos soliton and Fractals, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Physics Letters A, Symmetry
    3. Organizer 
      1. 1. Secretary; One day Research Scholar's symposium on Recent Advances in Physics (RAP 2014), held at Department of Physics, Pondicherry University, India, 9th April 2014. 

        2. Organizer: One of the organizers of the Brown/BU/UMass Seminar on Dynamics & Partial Differential equations, Brown University, Providence, USA, 21st November 2019. 

        3. Organizer: One of the organizers of the Brown/BU/UMass Seminar on Dynamics & Partial Differential equations, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, 5th November 2021.

SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING

Subject Semester / Year
Mathematical Physics M.Sc. I Semester
Mathematical Methods of Physics B.Sc. III Semester

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree Specialisation Institute Year of passing
Ph.D. Physics Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry, India 2017
MSc Physics Calicut University, Kerala, India 2010

Experience

Institution / Organisation Designation Role Tenure
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Visiting Assistant Professor September 2019 - August 2022
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Post Doctoral Fellow (Reseach Associate) September 2022 - May 2023
IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS), Daejeon, South Korea Post Doctoral Fellow (Reseach Associate) November 2016 - June 2019
Savitribhai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. National Post Doctoral Fellow August 2016 - November 2016
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India Visiting Research Fellow April 2016 - July 2016

AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

Area of Interest

Ultracold Atomic Physics and Nonlinear Physics

Area of Expertise

Quantum turbulence, Topological defects in Bose-Einstein Condensates, Statistical Mechanics of Nonlinear systems

Area of Research

Quantum turbulence, Topological defects in Bose-Einstein Condensates, Statistical Mechanics of Nonlinear systems