
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Pathak is an Indian politician from
Aam Aadmi Party and
Rajya Sabha
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MP from
Punjab
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since April 2022. He is a former assistant professor of
IIT Delhi
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, former research associate at
University of Oxford
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and
MIT
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. He is also currently
Aam Aadmi Party's Incharge in
Gujarat
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& Co-incharge in
Punjab
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and
Himachal Pradesh
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Early life and education
He was born in Bataha village in
Mungeli
Mungeli is a city and a Municipal Council in Mungeli district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The pin code of Mungeli is 495334.
Demographics
As of 2001 India census
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,
Chhattisgarh to agriculturist parents. He completed his education till class 6th from his village and then moved to Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh to his aunt's house for further studies. He completed his masters in Chhattisgarh and then moved to Indian Institute of Chemical Technology,
Hyderabad
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and National Chemical laboratory,
Pune
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for further studies.
He then moved to the
University of Cambridge
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to pursue
Ph.D on high-temperature superconducting materials. Post that he pursued post-doctoral research as research associate in
University of Oxford
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and
MIT
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.
Professional career
He joined the faculty of
IIT Delhi
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in 2016. His area of work at the
IIT
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is stated to be fabrication of perovskite-based photovoltaic devices, photo-physical properties and he has a number of research papers to his credit.
Political career
He was recognized for his behind-the-scenes work in the
2022 Punjab elections, on behalf of the
Aam Aadmi Party, and was nominated by the party as a candidate for a seat in the
Rajya Sabha
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, to which he was elected, unopposed, in April 2022.
He was appointed
Aam Aadmi Party's Incharge in
Gujarat
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& Co-incharge in
Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
on 21 March 2022. Later he was appointed Co-incharge for
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh (; ; "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen mountain states and is characterized by an extreme landscape featuring several peak ...
on 4 June 2022.
References
External links
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Living people
Rajya Sabha members from Punjab, India
Aam Aadmi Party politicians from Punjab, India
Rajya Sabha members from Aam Aadmi Party
1979 births
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