Education

B. Sc. (Hons) Physics, Hindu College, University of Delhi, 1984
M. A. Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1990
Ph.D. Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992 (with Steven Kivelson)

Employment

Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992-95                        
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Princeton University, 1995-2001   
Associate Professor, Physics Department, Princeton University, 2001 - 2005
Professor, Physics Department, Princeton University, 2005 -
Co-Director, Program on Oil, Energy and the Middle East, TRI-PIIRS (Princeton), 2006-2007
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Physics, Princeton University, 2008-2010
Director, Program on India and the World, CISS-WWS (Princeton), 2009-
Associated Faculty, Princeton Environmental Institute

Awards and Fellowships

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1996
William L. McMillan Award ``for outstanding contributions in Condensed Matter Physics'' awarded by the University of Illinois, 1996
Old Dominion Faculty Fellow of the Humanities Council, Princeton University 1996-1998.
Bergman Award of the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, 1997
David and Lucille Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, 1998
Senior Fellow, Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics, 2006-2008
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2009
Europhysics Prize of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society "for the prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles in spin ice" (shared), 2012
Humboldt Research Award, 2014