Bikas Chakrabarti
Bikas Kanta Chakrabarti (born 14 December 1952 in Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) is an Indian physicist. Since January 2018, he is emeritus professor of physics at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India. Biography

Chakrabarti received his Ph.D. degree from Calcutta University in 1979. Following post-doctoral work at the University of Oxford and the University of Cologne, he joined the faculty of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) in 1983. He is S. S. Bhatnagar Prize awardee (1997) and former J. C. Bose National Fellow (2011-2020). He is a former director of SINP. At present he is INSA Senior Scientist and Emeritus Professor at SINP,  and also Honorary  Visiting Professor of economics at the Indian Statistical Institute. He was Honorary Emeritus Professor (2018-2021) at S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences. Much of Chakrabarti's research has centered around statistical physics & condensed matter physics (including Quantum computing & Quantum annealing; see also D-Wave Systems & Timeline of quantum computing) and their application to social sciences (see e.g., Econophysics). He has authored several books and papers in the fields of physics and economics. Chakrabarti is (and was) member of the editorial boards of a number of physics and economics journals and book series. Honors, Awards & Recognitions

Awards, Fellowships, etc
 Young Scientist Award of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (1984)
 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (1997)
 Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1997-)
 Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (2003-)
 Honorary Visiting Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (2007- )
 Outstanding Referee Award of the American Physical Society (2010)
 J. C. Bose National Fellow, Department of Science and Technology (India) (2011-2020)
 Honorary Emeritus Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (2018-2021)
 INSA Senior Scientist, Indian National Science Academy (2021- )

Peer Recognition/Appreciation

 "Father of Econophysics", Thesis, Dept. History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (2018)
 "Earliest Work in Laying Foundation of Quantum annealing", Publication from Inst. Theor. Phys., University of Innsbruck (2022)

