K. Sravan Kumar, Ph.D.
Our Universe is full of grandeur with awe-inspiring vastness, brightness, and darkness. All the spectacular large scale structures we enjoy and wonder about in our clear night sky can be describable by the magic of math and logic which we call: Theoretical Physics. From the dawn of the 19th century, our quest through theoretical physics (of course with the help of experiments and observations) has revealed astonishing secrets of nature from the subatomic scale to galactic and even cosmological scales. This has transformed and transcended our humankind both scientifically and culturally adding an additional shining to our beautiful pale blue dot in our seemingly endless cosmos.
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Here I stand on the shoulders of brilliant minds and trying hard to understand and resolve the biggest questions we have about the Universe, nature of gravity, and matter at high energy scales. Join me in my journey of passion, hard work, and obsession with Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP).
Big questions that challenge me all the time?
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Why our Universe tends to be very homogeneous and Isotropic on large scales? On what principles Einstein's General Theory of Relativity must be modified so that can describe the past, current, and future evolution of our Universe?
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Why our Universe is mostly filled with so-called dark matter and dark energy? What we see in the night sky is only about 4 % of the energy in the whole Universe. What fundamental theory of gravity and/or matter aptly describe the dark sector?
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The most bizarre objects that we now certainly know that exist are Black-holes which were and will definitely be the obsession for generations. Neither do we fully understand their geometry nor what they are made of?. What realistic route in theoretical high energy physics can lead us to the understanding of these mysterious objects?
EDUCATION
Research Experience
March 2023-
The Royal Society Newton International Fellow,
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation,
U. Portsmouth, United Kingdom
November 2020- February 2023
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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November 2018- October 2020
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
March 2013- May 2017
Ph.D. in Physics (Theoretical Cosmology)
Center for Mathematics and Applications (CMA), Department of Physics, University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilha, Portugal.
​August 2009- April 2011
M.Sc. in Physics, School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
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November 2017- October 2018
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics,
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China.
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About me
Awards and Fellowships
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The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowship-2022
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JSPS International Research Fellowship
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Ph.D. Fellowship (2012) from the Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal