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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1961|6|15}}
| birth_place = India
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| residence = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Plasma physics]] | [[Optical physics]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani|BITS Pilani]] | [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur|IIT Kanpur]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on [[Ultrashort pulse]] and [[Warm dense matter]]
| awards = {{ublist| 2000 B. M. Birla Science Prize]] | 2003 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 2005 Salute Mumbai Award | 2006 [[Department of Atomic Energy|DAE]]-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator Award| 2015 [[Infosys Prize]] }}
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'''Gattamraju Ravindra Kumar''' (born 15 June 1961) is an Indian [[Laser science|laser physicist]] and a senior professor of Nuclear and Atomic Physics at [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]. Known for his research on [[Ultrashort pulse]] and [[Warm dense matter]], Kumar is an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] and the [[Indian National Science Academy]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2003.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017-11-11 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}} He is also a recipient of the B. M. Birla Science Prize and [[Infosys Prize]].

== Biography ==
[[File:Aerial View BITS Pilani, 2014.png|thumb|left|Aerial View BITS Pilani]]
Born on 15 June 1961, Ravindra Kumar did his graduate honors degree in mechanical engineering from [[Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani]] and continued there to earn an master's degree MSc honors degree in physics in 1983.<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P08-1461 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> Subsequently, he enrolled for doctoral studies at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] from where he secured a PhD in 1990.<ref name="Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF">{{Cite web |url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2015/ravindra-kumar-g.asp |title=Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF |date=2017-10-21 |website=Infosys Science Foundation |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> His post-doctoral work was also at IIT Kanpur and in 1992, he joined [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] where he is a senior professor of the Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics,<ref name="Faculty profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tifr.res.in/~dnap/index.php/members/people/14 |title=Faculty profile |date=2017-10-21 |website=TIFR - Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> heading UPHILL (Ultra-short Laser Pulse High Intensity Laser Laboratory.<ref name="Infosys Science Foundation announces winners of Infosys Prize 2015">{{Cite web |url=http://www.science.gov.au/international/International-science-news-and-events/Documents/STnewsletter_Nov2015.pdf |title=Infosys Science Foundation announces winners of Infosys Prize 2015 |date=November 2015 |website=Department of Industry, Innovation and Science - Government of Australia |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref><ref name="UPHILL-TIFR">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tifr.res.in/~uphill/contactus.html |title=UPHILL-TIFR |date=2017-10-21 |website=Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref><ref name="Ultra-short Laser Pulse High Intensity Laser Laboratory">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tifr.res.in/~uphill/ |title=Ultra-short Laser Pulse High Intensity Laser Laboratory |date=2017-10-21 |website=Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Kumar is known to have established UPHILL (Ultra-short Laser Pulse High Intensity Laser Laboratory), a centre for advanced laser experiments at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.<ref name="lecture on “Extreme Light, Extreme States”">{{Cite web |url=http://www.indiainfoline.com/article/print/news-top-story/infosys-science-foundation-organizes-lecture-on-extreme-light-extreme-states-116032900258_1.html |title=lecture on "Extreme Light, Extreme States" |date=2017-10-21 |website=India Info Online |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> Here, he heads a group of scholars and researchers who are involved in studies related to laser-matter interactions.<ref name="UPHILL-TIFR" /> He is reported to have worked on the generation of megagauss magnetic pulses using ultrafast laser pulses<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=14 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> and his group observed the ''turbulent magnetic fields created by instabilities of the high current electron beams driven by the laser pulse'' for the first time.<ref name="Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF" /> Nanoparticle coated surfaces and pendular states of molecules are two of the other areas of his research.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=2017-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/G_Ravindra_Kumar |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-10-17 |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 75 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Kumar=3AGattamraju_Ravindra=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> He has also guided a number of students in their doctoral studies.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He is a member of the [[Optical Society of America]] and sits in the International Committee on Ultra-High Intensity Lasers of the [[International Union of Pure and Applied Physics]].<ref name="ICUIL Members">{{Cite web |url=https://www.icuil.org/ |title=ICUIL Members |date=2017-10-21 |website=International Committee on Ultra-High Intensity Lasers |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> He is also a life member of Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry,<ref name="ISMS Members">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ismas.org/members.aspx |title=ISMS Members |date=2017-10-21 |website=Indian Society For Mass Spectrometry |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> Indian Society of Atomic and Molecular Physics, [[Plasma Science Society of India]]<ref name="PSSI Life members">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pssi.in/documents/2016-Oct-06%20PSSI%20Member%20List.pdf |title=PSSI Life members |date=2017-10-21 |website=Plasma Science Society of India |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> and [[Indian Laser Association]].<ref name="ILA Life Members">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ila.org.in/ |title=ILA Life Members |date=2017-10-21 |website=Indian Laser Association |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> Plenary or invited lectures delivered by him include the lecture on ''Extreme Light, Extreme States'' of [[Infosys Science Foundation]] in March 2016.<ref name="lecture on “Extreme Light, Extreme States”" />

== Awards and honors ==
Ravindra Kumar was awarded the B. M. Birla Science Prize by B. M. Birla Science Centre in 2000.<ref name="Fight poverty, Kalam tells scientists">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2003/06/08/stories/2003060803970600.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030925095007/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2003/06/08/stories/2003060803970600.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 September 2003 |title=Fight poverty, Kalam tells scientists |date=8 June 2003 |website=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref><ref name="B. M. Birla Science Prize">{{Cite web |url=http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |title=B. M. Birla Science Prize |date=2017-10-21 |website=B. M. Birla Science Centre |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2003.<ref name="CSIR list of Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexdiscipline-wise |title=CSIR list of Awardees |date=2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research}}</ref> The [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] elected him as a fellow in 2004<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Kumar,_Prof._Gattamraju_Ravindra |title=Fellow profile |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> and he received the Salute Mumbai Award in 2005.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> The [[Department of Atomic Energy]] honored his work during the period between 2006 and 2011 with DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator Award and the elected fellowship of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] reached him in 2008.<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=21 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104001952/http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |archive-date=4 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Infosys Science Foundation]] presented the [[Infosys Prize]] to him in 2015.<ref name="Infosys Science Foundation announces winners of Infosys Prize 2015" />

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |last=G. Ravindra Kumar |title=Intense, ultrashort light and dense, hot matter |journal=Pramana - Journal of Physics |date=2009 |volume=73 |issue=1 |pages=113–155 |doi=10.1007/s12043-009-0095-7|bibcode=2009Prama..73..113R }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Deepak More, Ch. Rajesh, Amit D. Lad, G. Ravindra Kumar, Shailaja Mahamuni |title=Two photon absorption in Mn<sup>2+</sup>-doped ZnSe quantum dots |journal=Optics Communications |date=2010 |volume=283 |issue=10 |pages=2150–2154 |doi=10.1016/j.optcom.2010.01.053|bibcode=2010OptCo.283.2150M }}
* {{Cite book |last=Gattamraju Ravindra Kumar |title=12th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics |chapter=Plasmonics for Ultrahigh Intensity Light |journal=OSA Technical Digest |pages=T2C.3 |date=2014 |doi=10.1364/PHOTONICS.2014.T2C.3|isbn=978-1-55752-882-7 }}
* {{Cite journal |last= Ravindra Kumar Gattamraju, Gourab Chatterjee, Prahshant Singh, Amitava Adak, Amit D. Lad, K. M. Schoeffler, L. O. Silva, Sudip Sengupta, P. K. Kaw, Amita Das |title=Laboratory simulation of astrophysical magnetic turbulence |journal=APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts |volume=2015 |pages=YO6.013 |date=2015 |bibcode=2015APS..DPPYO6013G}}
* {{Cite journal |last= Ravindra Kumar Gattamraju, Moniruzzaman Shaikh, Amit Lad, Deep Sarkar, Kamalesh Jana, Indranuj Dey |title=Giant magnetic fields and relativistic electron transport in dense, hot plasmas created on solid targets |journal=APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts |volume=2016 |pages=YO5.013 |date=2016 |bibcode=2016APS..DPPYO5013G}}

== See also ==
* [[List of BITS alumni]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://indico.ictp.it/event/a11190/session/17/contribution/10/material/0/0.pdf |title=High energy density science with ultrashort lasers (Presentation) |last=G. Ravindra Kumar |date=October 2012 |website=International Centre for Theoretical Physics |access-date=2017-10-21}}

== External links ==
* {{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HioewRop7EA |title=Interview with Infosys Prize 2015 – Physical Sciences winner G. Ravindra Kumar |date=26 August 2016 |type=YouTube video |publisher=Infosys Prize |access-date=2017-10-21}}

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