Physics Welcomes the First UF Dirac Post-Doctoral Fellow
The UF Department of Physics is welcoming its first Dirac Postdoctoral Fellow, Sarbajaya Kundu, PhD. Kundu’s research focus is in correlation effects in topological phases of matter, topological superconductivity, Kitaev quantum magnets and magnetic-field-induced phases of matter. As a UF Dirac Fellow, Kundu will act as a liaison between theoretical and experimental efforts both within UF and across the three National High Magnetic Field laboratory (NHMFL, “MagLab”) sites (Gainesville, Los Alamos and Tallahassee). From 2021 onward, a Dirac Fellow will continue to be affiliated with UF (subject to funding).
Prior to coming to UF, Kundu had collaborated with a large number of MagLab scientists on the experimental study of a Kitaev candidate material, sodium iridate. She received her bachelor of science degree from the Presidency College at the University of Calcutta in 2013 and her PhD from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 2019 (with professor Vikram Tripathi). For the last two years, Kundu has been a post-doc at the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, working with professor Claude Bourbonnais and professor David Senechal.
