Swapan Kumar Pati

Swapan Kumar Pati (born 7 December 1968) is an Indian quantum chemist, a professor of the department of chemistry at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and the head of the Quantum Theory Molecules to Materials Group at the institute.

[8] Subsequently, he moved to Bengaluru to pursue his doctoral studies at Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science[9] and completed his post-doctoral work at University of California, Davis and Northwestern University.

On his return to India, he joined the Theoretical Sciences Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research as a member of faculty where he serves as a professor and the head of the Quantum Theory Molecules to Materials Group.

[1] Pati's researches fall into five major areas; Quantum Magnetism, Optical and Opto-electronic Properties, Transport in Nanostructures and Biomolecular Systems, Hydrogen Storage in Organic Molecular Solids and New Carbon based Materials[10] and his studies are reported to have widened the understanding of electronic optical and magnetic phenomena in molecular systems.

[8] Pati, who is a junior associate at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics since 2003, received the MRSI Medal of the Materials Research Society of India in 2006[17] and the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2007.