Background
I completed my undergraduate studies in India, and later pursued a postgraduate degree in Particles, Strings, and Cosmology in England. For my dissertation at Durham University, under the supervision of Ruth Gregory (currently at King’s College London), I worked at the intersection of cosmology and string theory—specifically studying how cosmic inflation can be embedded in string theory using D-branes. This exploration led me to the String Landscape and the Swampland: the vast space of consistent 4D effective field theories that arise from string theory, and its contrasting domain of inconsistent theories.Feel free to email me if you're curious—I’m always happy to chat about the Swampland or anything stringy!
During the first year of my PhD, I worked on a quantum mechanical model of Majorana fermions with random interactions, known as the SYK Model (Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev Model). This model is remarkable because, in the low-energy limit where it becomes strongly coupled, its effective action involves a Schwarzian derivative—an object also found in the holographic description of Jackiw–Teitelboim (JT) gravity. In other words, the low-energy SYK model is holographically dual to 2D JT gravity, making it a powerful tool for exploring aspects of quantum gravity and black holes.
Genealogy
My PhD advisor is Claudia Ratti, who completed her Phd from Torino University, Italy and is a Tenured Professor at University of Houston and the Physics Department Associate chair.
About the picture: The picture above was taken in the summer after my postgraduation, when I went traveling across the UK. This was taken outside the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
