Shashi Prabhakar

Assistant Professor

AMOPH division, Physical Research Laboratory
Ahmedabad 380009, Gujarat, India
Office: +91-79-2631 4990 · Mobile +91 85116 35590
[email protected] · [email protected]

Research interests

Higher-dimension entanglement and applications

Long-distance quantum communication

Academic qualification

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

Ph. D. (Physics)
2009 - 2014

IIT Guwahati, Assam

M. Sc. (Physics)
2007 - 2009

Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

B. Sc. (Physics Hons.)
2004 - 2007

Experience

Assistant Professor

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
September 2021 - Present

Part-time Teacher

Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
April - May 2021

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
April 2019 - March 2011

Research Associate

University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
April 2018 - April 2019

Post Doctoral Fellow

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
October 2015 - September 2017

Post Doctoral Fellow

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
July 2014 - September 2015

Current members

Preeti Gangwani

Final semester project student
January 2023 - present

Alumnis

Ajay Kumar

Summer Inturnship Program 2023, PRL
May 2022 - July 2022

Awards & Professional Recognitions

  • Seal of Excellence by European Commission for the proposal Photon-bunching for enhancing the Infrared and Terahertz detection (PIT) submitted to Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions 2018-19, Score 92/100
  • Best student paper award at Photonics-2014 at IIT Kharagpur, India
  • Qualified CSIR-JRF-LS in National Eligibility (India) Test December, 2008

Recent Publications

  • Will be populated soon

Courses taught

Quantum optics

together with Prof. R. P. Singh, PRL
January 2023 - Present

Quantum optics and Nano Photonics

together with Dr. Satyendra Nath Gupta, PRL
January 2022 - May 2022

Contact

Shashi Prabhakar
Office 04, New cubicles, Second floor, New Building, Thaltej campus,
Physical Research Laboratory,
Near Gotila Garden, Sindhu Bhavan marg,
Thaltej, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
PIN 380054, India.
Office: +91-79-2631 4990 (preffered)
Mobile: +91 85116 35590
Email ID: shaship [at] prl [dot] res [dot] in
Alt. Email ID: prabhakar.shashi [at] gmail [dot] com
Web Page: https://www.prl.res.in/~shaship/