Urbasi Sinha is an Indian physicist and professor at the

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. Her research considers quantum information science and quantum photonics. She was named in the

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list in 2018, appointed an Emmy Noether Fellow in 2020 and awarded the Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award in 2023. She was awarded the Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in the Physics category in 2024.

Early life and education

Sinha was born in London and completed her undergraduate from

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graduate and doctoral degrees at the

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. Her research considered superconducting devices. Her doctorate involved explorations of the

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. She moved to the

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for her postdoctoral research, where she became interested in quantum computing and optics. Here she developed a triple-slit variation to the

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; testing the

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. The Born rule predicts the probability that a measurement made in a quantum system will give a particular result.

Research and career

When Sinha returned from Canada to Bangalore she was made a professor at the

. Here she leads the Quantum Information and Computing lab (QuIC) laboratory. Here she started working on quantum photonics and the development of a quantum internet. Alongside technological applications, Sinha is interested in testing fundamental quantum phenomena, including

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. In 2017, Sinha was appointed a Homi Bhabha Fellow at the

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. In 2020, Sinha was appointed an

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Fellow at the

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. Her research group demonstrated a quantum communication channel between fixed and moving platforms in 2023. Urbasi is involved with designing the National Quantum Mission India. In 2023, Sinha was awarded a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Photonic Quantum Science and Technologies at the University of Calgary.

Awards and honours

* 2017 Homi Bhabha Fellow * 2018 ICTP-ICO Gallieno Denardo Award in Optics * 2019

, ''

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'' * 2023 Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award * 2024 Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in the Physics category

Select publications

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Personal life

Her husband, Aninda Sinha, is a high energy physicist at the

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References

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