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]

Office location: on the map
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.
Web Page: https://www.prl.res.in/~shaship/

Research interests

Higher-dimension entanglement and applications

Long-distance quantum communication

Academic qualification

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

Ph. D. (Physics), degree awarded by IIT Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar
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 2021

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

Rachita Nandan

PhD Student
July 2022 batch - present

Alumnis

Akhilesh Dubey

Summer Inturnship Program 2023, PRL
May - July 2023

Preeti Gangwani

Final semester project student
January - May 2023

Ajay Kumar

Summer Inturnship Program 2022, PRL
May - 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

Publications

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Courses taught

Quantum Information

together with Dr. Satyendra Nath Gupta, PRL
Jan - April 2024

SAS-203: Space Exploration: Astronomical Instruments and Observing Techniques

13th CSSTEAP PG Course on Space and Atmospheric Science
Jan - February 2024

RS601: Research Methodology: Numerical Methods

together with Dr. Arvind Singh, PRL
July - November 2023

Quantum optics

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

AMO701: Quantum optics and Nano Photonics: Quantum Optics

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

Opportunities

Please follow the links for eligibility and deadline requirements.

PostDoctoral Fellow Position

Deadline: around end of February, May, August and November
PDF @ PRL

PhD Position

External funded possibilities from CSIR/UGC-JRF and Inspire Fellow
Deadline: around mid of February
PhD @ PRL

Summer Internship Program

Deadline: around mid of April
SIP @ PRL

Academic Project Training

Deadline: 2 semesters project (August-May): around end of July
Deadline: 1 semester project (January-April): around middle of December
APT @ PRL

Please get in touch with us as early as possible (>1 months prior to the deadline) to discuss your application, such that we can process the requirements from our side.

Talks online

Spatial Modes of Light in Turbulence and their Quantum

02/10/2023 Structured Light and Spin-Orbit Photonics 2023
YouTube

Position momentum entanglement

19/05/2023 QIQT 2023
YouTube

Quantum effects under turbulence

03/06/2022 QIQT 2022
YouTube

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