Sanjay Puri (born 23 November 1961) is an Indian statistical physicist and a senior professor at the School of Physical Sciences of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
[4] The core areas of Puri's work are in statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics[5] with special focus on pattern formation in nonequilibrium systems.
[11] Besides, he has published three books,[12] including Dissipative Phenomena in Condensed Matter: Some Applications, co-authored with Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta[13] and Kinetics of Phase Transitions, an edited work.
[2] The Indian National Science Academy awarded him the Young Scientist Medal in 1993[18] and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics selected him as an associate member in 1994.
[3] Puri received the N. S. Satya Murthy Memorial Award of the Indian Physics Association in 1994[12] followed by B. M. Birla Science Prize in 1999.