Curriculum Vitae

B.Sc: St. Joseph's college, Bangalore (1982)

M.Sc: Annamalai University (1985)

Ph.D: TIFR/Bombay University (1992).

Current Position: Professor, School of Maths, TIFR

Long term Visiting Positions:

• Research Assistant, Regensburg University, 1991-1992
• Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, 1993-1994
• Visitor, Max-Planck Institute, Bonn, 2003.
• Visiting Professor, Chennai Mathematical Institute, 2007-2008.

Awards:

• Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Award, 1993
• Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 1994-1997
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, 1997-1998
• Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 2004
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Mathematical Sciences, 2004.
• Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 2005.
• ICTP Ramanujan Prize for Mathematics, Trieste, 2006.
• Vaidyanathaswamy Visiting Chair Professor, Chennai Mathematical Institute, 2008-2011.
• Adjunct Faculty, IISER Pune.
• Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, 2009.

Grants:

• NATO Grant, August 1994
• NSF-Americas grant, June 1994
• Principal Investigator for the Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR) Project 2501-1 on Algebraic groups in Arithmetic and Geometry, 2001--2004.
• India-UK DST-Royal Society Networking Grant, 2005 and 2006.

Committees:

• Member, Scientific Council, Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR/CEFIPRA)
• Member, Scientific Committee, CIMPA (International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics)
• Member, Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India