Thanu Padmanabhan

Who is Thanu Padmanabhan?

Thanu Padmanabhan is an Indian theoretical physicist and Cosmologist whose research spans a wide variety of topics in Gravitation, Structure formation in the universe and Quantum Gravity. He has published more than 230 papers and reviews in international journals and ten books in these areas. Many of his contributions, especially those related to the analysis and modelling of dark energy in the universe and the interpretation of gravity as an emergent phenomenon, have made significant impact in the field. He is currently Distinguished Professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, at Pune, India.