Dr. Santosh Kumar Das

Designation : Assistant Professor
Broad Area of Expertise : Physics
Email : santosh{at}iitgoa.ac.in
Contact Number : 0832 249 0139
Address : F-16, Academic Block B
Educational Qualifications
- Ph.D : Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, 2012
- M. Phil: Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha 2007
- M.Sc : Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha 2005.
- B.Sc : Vyasanagar College (Utkal University), Jajpur Road, Jajpur, Odisha, 2003
Areas of Research
Heavy-ion collisions, Quark gluon plasma, QCD at high temperature, Transport theory and its application in heavy-ion collisions, Heavy quark diffusion in QCD matter
Courses Taught
UG Courses:
PH101: Quantum Physics and Applications
PH103: UG Physics Lab
PG/PhD Courses:
PH802: Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
PH806: Field Theory
Institute Elective:
IE601:Numerical Simulation and Its Applications
Professional Appointments
- Assistant Professor: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Goa, India, June 2018-Present
- Associate Professor: School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, December 2017- June 2018
- Post Doc: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, January, 2013 - July 2017
- Post Doc: University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, May 2012 - September, 2012
Recent Publications
- Marco Ruggieri, Pooja, Jai Prakash, Santosh K. Das, Memory effects on energy loss and diffusion of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma, Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 3, 034032
- Jai Prakash, Manu Kurian, Santosh K. Das, Vinod Chandra, Heavy quark transport in an anisotropic hot QCD medium: Collisional and Radiative processes, Phys. Rev. D, 103, 9, 094009 (2021)
- Mohammad Yousuf Jamal, Santosh K. Das, Marco Ruggieri, Energy Loss Versus Energy Gain of Heavy Quarks in a Hot Medium, Phys. Rev. D, 103, 5, 054030 (2021)
- Jun-Hong Liu, Santosh K. Das, Vincenzo Greco, Marco Ruggieri, Ballistic diffusion of heavy quarks in the early stage of relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC, Phys. Rev. D 103 ,034029 (2021)
- Santosh K. Das, Jane Alam, Salvatore Plumari, Vincenzo Greco,Transmission of airborne virus through sneezed and coughed droplets, Phys. Fluids 32, 097102 (2020)
- Salvatore Plumari, Gabriele Coci, Vincenzo Minissale, Santosh K. Das, Yifeng Sun, Vincenzo Greco, Heavy-light flavour correlations of anisotropic flows at LHC energies within event-by-event transport approach, Phys. Lett. B, 805 (2020) 135460
Recognition and Awards
- Seal of excellence from European Commission, 2017
- Outstanding thesis award from Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, 2015
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