[1] Dhar obtained his PhD in 1998 from the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Dhar then became a faculty member of the Raman Research Institute and later joined the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences.
[2] Dhar works on the theory and applications of statistical physics to study non-equilibrium problems.
His research areas include anomalous heat transport in low dimensional systems[3] and open quantum systems where he made significant contributions in developing an approach using quantum Langevin equations.
For his results in classical and quantum transport in low dimensional systems and contributions to non-equilibrium fluctuation theorems, Dhar was awarded the ICTP prize in 2008[4] and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for Physical Sciences in 2009.