Sanjay Jain

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Sanjay Jain
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Ph.D. Theoretical Physics - 1987
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
M.Sc. Physics - 1981
Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi
B.Sc. Physics (Honours) - 1979
St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi

Conformally invariant field theory in two dimensions and strings in curved spacetime.
Thesis advisor : Spenta R. Wadia

2018 - present	Senior Professor, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi
2002 - 2018	Professor, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi
2016 - 2019	Head, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi (Nov 2016 - Dec 2019)
2016	Addie & Harold Broitman Member, Simons Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA (Sept 2016 - Oct 2016)
2016	Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA (Jan 2016 - Aug 2016; on sabbatical leave from University of Delhi)
2000 - 2004	Associate Professor, Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
1999 - 2000	Visiting Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe (on sabbatical leave from University of Delhi)
1992 - 2000	Assistant Professor, Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science
1990 - 1992	Research Associate, Physics Department, Harvard University
1987 - 1990	Research Associate, Physics Department, Brown University
1981 - 1987	Research Scholar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India (since 2007).
Member of the External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA (2000-2006, 2007-present).
Senior Associate, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Banglore, India (2013-2016).
Honorary Faculty Member, Condensed Matter Theory Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India (1995 - 2004).
Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (1996-2003).

Member, Editorial Board of the Journal: Artificial Life (MIT Press)
Member, Editorial Board of the Journal: Theory in Biosciences (Springer)
Member - Programme Committee: European Conference in Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07) to be held from 1-5 October, 2007 at Dresden, Germany
Coordinator, Delhi Node of National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology (NNMCB), 2013 - 2016 (supported by Science and Engineering Board, Govt of India)
Instructional Workshop on Proteomics and Proteogenomics Data, at Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, October 10 - 12, 2015
Instructional Workshop on Gene Expression Analysis:Hands-on using Microarray and Next Generation Sequencing Data, at Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, March 10, 2015
Symposium on Mathmatical and Computational Biology, at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, March 7-9, 2015
Instructional Workshop on Fundamentals of Systems Biology, at Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi, December 22 - 24, 2014
Member - Programme Committee: European Conference in Complex Systems 2006 (ECCS'06), 25-29 September, 2006 at Oxford University, UK.
Convener: Millennium Meeting on String Theory, 3-7 January, 2000 at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore