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		Dr. Bijaya K. Sahoo, FNASc
		Senior Professor
           	Head, AMOPH Division (since August, 2024)
		Chair, Academic Committee (since January, 2019)
        	Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division
		Room No. 455
		Physical Research Laboratory (PRL)
		Navrangpura
		Ahmedabad-380009
		Tel. No(s).: 0091 79 26314455(O)
        		          0091 79 29600210 (R)
		Fax:            0091 79 26314900
		Email(s): [email protected] 
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PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Head, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division, PRL, since August 2024.
Deputy Head, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division, PRL, January 2023 - August 2024.
Senior Professor, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division, PRL, September 2023 - Present.
Professor, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division, PRL, July 2018 - August 2023.
Overseas Visiting Professor, Institute of Physics (IOP), CAS, Beijing, China during March - May, 2018.
PIFI fellowship Visiting Scientist, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (WIPM), CAS, Wuhan, China during June 2017 - February, 2018.
Associate Professor, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division, PRL, from July, 2013 to June, 2018.
Reader, Theoretical Physics Division, PRL, from June, 2010 to June, 2013
Post Doctoral Fellow and Project Leader of project ”Atomic parity violation as a high-precision test of the unified electroweak theory” with project number 680-47-128 financed by ”NWO-VENI programme” from the Netherlands to work at Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI), RuG University, Groningen, The Netherlands from October 2008 to June 2010.
Post Doctoral Fellow on ”FOM Fellowship”: Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI), RuG University, Groningen, The Netherlands from March 2008 to October 2008.
Post Doctoral Fellow on ”Visitors Programme Fellowship”: Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, April 2006 to March 2008
Guest Scientist on ”DAAD Scholarship”: GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2004 - March 2006

EDUCATION:

Doctor of Philosophy (Atomic Physics): Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India, January 2000-September 2005
Master of Science (Particle physics as special subject, First class): Utkal University, India, September 1997 - August 1999
Bachelor of Science (Physics Honors, First class with ”Distinction”): Nayagarh college, India, August 1994 - May 1997

Awards and Honors:

Name appeared in the list of Top 2% of Scientists in the world in the respective research fields for single year as well as for career published in 2024 by Stanford University.
Elected as a Fellow of the National Academdy Sciences (NASI) in 2023.
Name appeared in the list of Top 2% of Scientists in the world in the respective research fields for single year as well as for career published in 2023 by Stanford University.
Name appeared in the list of Top 2% of Scientists in the world in the respective research fields for single year as well as for career published in 2022 by Stanford University.
Name appeared in the list of Top 2% of Scientists in the world in the respective research fields for single year published in 2021 by Stanford University.
Name appeared in the list of Top 2% of Scientists in the world in the respective research fields for single year published in 2020 by Stanford University.
Invited as a panelist to the VAIBHAV summit under Computational Natural Sciences held during Oct-Nov 2020 (https://vaibhav.gov.in/v5.php).
Awarded as an Outstanding Reviewer for 2018 by J. Phys. B: Atomic, Mol. and Opt. Physics.
Buti Foundation Award in 2018 for Excellence in Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics and Biophysics - 2016 by Indian Physics Association.
Overseas Professor Fellowship from Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China during 1 March - 29 May, 2018.
PIFI Fellowship from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for the years 2017-2018.
Selected for Indo-Australia EMCR fellowship by INSA for 2016-2017.
Awarded as an Outstanding Reviewer for 2016 by J. Phys. B: Atomic, Mol. and Opt. Physics.
One of the founding members of INYSA constituted by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2015.
Principal Researcher from India for the INSA-JSPS project on Parity (P) and Time (T) reversal symmetry violations in xenon and francium atoms: probing new physics of elementary particles and atomic nuclei using low-energy methods for the years 2013-2016.
INSA medal for Young Scientists award from the Indian National Science Academy in 2012.
S N Ghosal Award from the Indian Physical Society as the Best Young Physicist for a Presentation at the Colloquium for Young Physicists. 18-19 August, 2011.
Professor S.N.Ghosh Young Scientist Award from Indian Society of Atomic & Molecular Physics for the year 2010.
First Best prize from the Indian Physical Society for the Presentation of a Paper Entitled Atomic Probes of Fundamental Interactions at the Colloquium for Young Physicists. 18-19 August, 2011.
"Financial support by Department of Science & Technology (DST), India to attend a workshop at ECT*,Trento, Italy from 15-19 Nov. 2010 under Young Scientist scheme."
"Young international Scientists Fellowship award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)" for the year 2010.
”NWO-VENI fellowship” from NWO(N), the Netherlands to work at KVI, University of Groningen for 2009-2012 (terminated in June, 2010).
”Postdoctoral fellowship” from FOM, the Netherlands to work at KVI, University of Groningen in 2008.
”Postdoctoral fellowship” from Max-Planck institute for the physics of complex systems from 2006 to 2008.
”The Best Thesis Award” for the year 2006 on my PhD thesis by the Indian Association of Atomic and Molecular Physics at XVI National Con- ference on Atomic and Molecular Physics (8th - 11th January, 2007), TIFR, Bombay, India.
”DAAD Scholarship” under the ”Sandwich Model” from 01.10.2004 to 31.03.2006 and I carried out a part of my research work at GSI under Dr. Thomas Beier, Darmstadt, Germany during this period.
Qualified ”GATE” (1999).
Qualified ”NET(CSIR-JRF)” two times: December (1998) and June(1999).

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