Born on 26 January 1964 in West Bengal, Pinaki Majumdar graduated in engineering from Jadavpur University in 1986 and continued his studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras from where he earned a master's degree (MTech) in 1990.[2] His doctoral studies were at the Indian Institute of Science and after earning a PhD in 1996, he did his post-doctoral work at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey for a couple of years. Returning to India, he joined Harish-Chandra Research Institute as a fellow in 1998. He has since held various positions at HRI such as those of a reader (2001–03) and an associate professor (2003–07) before becoming a full professor in 2007. He continues his association with the institute, holding the positions of the director and grade-1 professor.[3][4] He also serves as a professor at Homi Bhabha National Institute.[5]
Legacy and honors
Majumdar's research was mainly focused on disordered and strongly correlated quantum systems and his studies have assisted in a wider understanding of the metal-insulator transition.[6] He is also reported to have contributed to the studies of nanoscale texture formation and colossal response driven by external fields.[7] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[8][note 2] and Google Scholar, an online article repository of scientific articles, has listed 93 of them.[9]
Pinaki Majumdar, Peter B. Littlewood (1998). "Dependence of magnetoresistivity on charge-carrier density in metallic ferromagnets and doped magnetic semiconductors". Nature. 395 (6701): 479–481. Bibcode:1998Natur.395..479M. doi:10.1038/26703. S2CID204997491.
