Surajit Dhara is an Indian physicist affiliated to the School of Physics in

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, in various capacities since 2006. His area of special interest is soft matter physics. He studies control and manipulation of topological defects of liquid crystals, elasticity and defect mediated directed assembly, topological active matter, rheology and photonics of liquid crystals. He is a recipient of the

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for his contributions to physical sciences in 2020. Surajit Dhara obtained his B.Sc. degree from Ramananda College (Bishnupur) in 1995, M.Sc. degree from

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in 1998 and Ph.D. degree from

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, Bangalore, in 2004. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2008, a visiting scientist at Jozef Stefan Institute, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, during 2013–2018 and a visiting professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, in 2018. In 2021, he became a laureate of the

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by the ''

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* * {{Authority control Living people Indian physicists 21st-century Indian physicists Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science Scientists from West Bengal 1975 births