Sunil Mukhi

Sunil Mukhi is an Indian theoretical physicist working in the areas of string theory, quantum field theory and particle physicsHe earned a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1981 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook After spending two years at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy, he returned to India where he has worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India since 1984 In November, 2012 he joined Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune as the head of physics departmentHis major publications deal with fundamental properties of string theories, and include the conformal invariance of supersymmetric twodimensional field theories which describe the worldsheet dynamics of strings, the study of supersymmetric solitons using index theorems, the discovery of a new duality between string theory and Mtheory, the identification of string networks as supersymmetric states and the discovery of a novel Higgs mechanism in the worldvolume theory of Mtheory membranes