Spenta R. Wadia
Indian physicist
Spenta R. Wadia (born 1 August 1950) is an Indian theoretical physicist with research interests in elementary particle physics, quantum field theory and statistical physics, string theory and quantum gravity. His other scientific interests are in complex systems including cross-disciplinary biology. He is a recipient of the 2004 TWAS Prize in Physics; the 1995 Physics Prize of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP); and the J. C. Bose Fellowship of the Govt of India. He is an elected member of TWAS, and a Fellow of all the Science Academies of India. In 2024, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the United States' oldest and most prestigious scholarly societies.
Career
He is an alumnus of St Mary's High School Mumbai, St Xavier's College Mumbai and IIT-Kanpur. He graduated from the City University of New York in 1978 (mentor Bunji Sakita) and his postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago (mentors Yoichiro Nambu and Leo Kadanoff). He joined the faculty of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai in 1982 and worked there till 2015. He was the Chair of the Dept of Theoretical Physics 2007–2009, Distinguished Professor 2008-2015 and is the Founder Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) of TIFR in Bangalore. He helped Sunil Mukhi's first student (who deregistered from Sunil Mukhi after writing a paper) obtain a Ph.D. Presently he is the Infosys Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at ICTS. He was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, USA during 1990–1992; Centre European Recherché Nuclear (CERN) in Geneva, during 1996-1997 and 2003–2004; KITP Simons Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2018.
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