Sandeep Kumar Pathak (born 4 October 1979) is an Indian academic turned politician from
Aam Aadmi Party
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, ) is a List of political parties in India, political party in India. It was founded on 26 November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions, following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement against then gover ...
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
Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...
and
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh (; Sanskrit: ''himācāl prādes;'' "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a States and union territories of India, state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen Indian Himalayan ...
.
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
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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 master's 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
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT- Delhi) is a public institute of technology located in Delhi, India. It is one of the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology created to be a Centre of Excellence for India's training, research and developme ...
in 2016. His area of work at the
IIT 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
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, ) is a List of political parties in India, political party in India. It was founded on 26 November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions, following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement against then gover ...
, 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 (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...
on 21 March 2022. Later he was appointed Co-incharge for
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh (; Sanskrit: ''himācāl prādes;'' "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a States and union territories of India, state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen Indian Himalayan ...
on 4 June 2022.
References
External links
Profileat
National Portal of India
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IIT Delhi
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Google Scholar
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Living people
People from Mungeli district
Rajya Sabha members from Punjab, India
Aam Aadmi Party politicians from Punjab, India
Rajya Sabha members from Aam Aadmi Party
1979 births
Alumni of the University of Cambridge