Pranawachandra Deshmukh

Pranawachandra Deshmukh
Pranawachandra Deshmukh
	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati ; Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru
Doctoral advisor	Dr. Chintamani Mande ; Dr. P. L. Khare
Website	www.iittp.ac.in/dr-p-c-deshmukh

Pranawachandra Deshmukh (born 12 September 1950) is an Indian

NPTEL

.

Biography

Pranawachandra Deshmukh was born in Amravati on 12 September 1950.^{[citation needed]}

Deshmukh graduated from

Nagpur University in 1973.^{[citation needed}

]

Deshmukh earned his Ph.D. from Nagpur University in 1979, under the joint supervision of Dr. Chintamani Mande and Dr. P. L. Khare.^[2]

Deshmukh's teaching has focused on

NPTEL^[3]^[4]^[5]

University Positions

Following his PhD studies, from 1978 to 1979, Deshmukh was a

University of Aarhus, Aarhus in the Physics department and worked with Professor Jan Linderberg.^[2]

From 1979 to 1980 he was a research associate at University of Notre Dame under Professor R. Hayes and Professor W. R. Johnson. From 1980 until 1983, Deshmukh was a research associate at Georgia State University and worked with Professor S. T. Manson.^[2]^[1]

Deshmukh returned to

Indian Institute of Technology Mandi for 2009–2010.^[1]

In 2016, Deshmukh joined

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati).^[8]

Services

Prof. Deshmukh has held numerous prestigious positions throughout his career. He has served as a Visiting Professor,

International Center of Theoretical Physics, Triste, Italy

. He also worked as a Visiting Scientist at

University of Aarhus, Aarhus, where he held a Visiting Professorship, in 1991.^[1]

In addition to his teaching and research endeavors, Deshmukh has actively participated in various professional organizations. He served as Convenerfor the 11th National Conference of Atomic and Molecular Physics hosted by the Indian Society for Atomic and Molecular Physics in December 1996. He also held the position of Secretary for the Indian Society for Atomic and Molecular Physics from 2001 to 2003. Deshmukh held position of Vice President of the Indian Society for Atomic and Molecular Physicfrom 2003 to 2004.

He was also a Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Asian International Seminar on Atomic and Molecular Physics between 2004 and 2007, and again from 2011 to 2016. In 2005, Deshmukh was elected President of the Indian Society for Atomic and Molecular Physics. Deshmukh also served as Convener for the 7th Asian International Seminar of Atomic and Molecular Physics held from December 4 to 7, 2006.[9]

Prof Deshmukh was the Head of the Department of Physics at the

Indian Institute of Technology Mandi^[1]

from 2009 to 2010.

He also served as the Dean, Academics, at the

Indian Institute of Technology Mandi^[1] from 2009 to 2010. He held the post of Visiting Professor, The Western University of London, Ontario, Canada in 2011.^[1] Later he was appointed as a Western Fellow, at The Western University of London, Ontario, Canada in 2013 and 2014.^[1]

Some other positions held by Prof. Deshmukh are:

Member, General Committee, International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions (2015)

Visiting/Adjuct Professor,
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati (2015-2018)^[10]

Dean, Sponsored Research and Consultancy,
Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (2016-2020)^[1]

Convener, 7th Topical Conference of the Indian Society for Atomic and Molecular Physics (6–8 January 2018)[11]
Convener, AAMOS20 - Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences 2020 (14–18 December 2020)^[12]
Member, Board of Editors, Institute of Physics Journal - Physica Scripta^[13]
Mentor and Convener, CAMOST, a joint initiative of
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati
(since 2020)

Publications

Books and monographs

Foundations of Classical Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (2019), Foundation of Classical Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics – Formalism, Methodologies, and Applications, Cambridge University Press (2023) Quantum Mechanics – Formalism, Methodologies, and Applications