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Prof.Manu Kurian

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Physics

Email: manukurian[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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Personal Page: Under Construction

Research Interest: Quark-Gluon Plasma, Relativistic Hydrodynamics

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

  • Winter Semester, 2025-2026: Advanced Mathematical Methods in Physics (MSc+PhD), IIT Dhanbad.
  • Monsoon Semester, 2025-2026: Plasma Physics: Fundamentals and Applications (MSc+PhD), IIT Dhanbad.
  • Winter semester, 2024-2025: Nuclear Science and Engineering (Engineering Physics B.Tech.), IIT Dhanbad.
  • Semester-I, 2021: Mathematics IV, (B.Tech common) IIT Gandhinagar

Academics

  • 03/2016-11/2020: Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India .
  • 2013 -2015: Masters degree in Physics (M.Sc.), from Department of physics, Calicut University, Kerala, India. 
  • 2010 - 2013: Bachelor degree in Physics (B.Sc.), from St. Joseph's college Devagiri, Kozhikode, Kerala, India. 
  • 2008 - 2010: Higher Secondary Education from St. Josephs school Kodenchery, Kerala, India.
  • 2008: Secondary School, St. Josephs school Kodenchery, Kerala, India.

Position

  • 12/2024-present: Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad.
  • 05/2023-11/2024: Special Postdoctoral (SPDR) Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) (RIKEN Research centre), New York, United States.
  • 01/2022-04/2023: (PBEEE fellow) Postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
  • 11/2020-01/2022: Institute postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India. 
  • 07/2019-11/2019: Graduate Research Trainee (GRT) at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Awards and Honors

  • Special Postdoctoral Fellowship (SPRD) to work at RIKEN Research Center Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), New York, United States, 2023.
  • Quebec Merit Fellowship: Postdoctoral fellowship under Excellence Scholarship Program for Foreign Students (PBEEE) from the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT), 2021-2022.
  • Gold Medal for Outstanding Research in Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, August 2021.
  • Overseas research experience fellowship from Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar to visit McGill University, Canada, 2019.
  • Graduate Teaching Fellowship in the course Quantum Mechanics-II, January-April 2019. 
  • Joint CSIR-UGC JRF and NET, All India raking-138, June 2017.
  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)-Physics subject, All India ranking 28, 2016. •
  • Higher Education Scholarship from Kerala State Higher Education Council, 2011-2015

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  • Particle number diffusion in second-order relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics with momentum-dependent relaxation time; Sunny Kumar Singh, Samapan Bhadury, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 111, 114007 (2025).
  • Revisiting shear stress tensor evolution: Non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics with momentum-dependent relaxation time; Sunny Kumar Singh, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 110 1, 014004 (2024).
  • Energy loss of a fast moving parton in Gribov-Zwanziger plasma; Manas Debnath, Ritesh Ghosh, Mohammad Yousuf Jamal, Manu Kurian, Jai Prakash; Physical Review D Letters 109, L011503 (2024).
  • Impact of chiral asymmetry and magnetic field on passage of an energetic test parton in a QCD medium; Ritesh Ghosh, Mohammad Yousuf Jamal, Manu Kurian; Physical Review D 108, 054035 (2023).
  • Open charm phenomenology with a multi-stage approach to relativistic heavy-ion collisions; Mayank Singh, Manu Kurian, Sangyong Jeon, and Charles Gale; Physical Review C 108, 054901 (2023).
  • Magnetic field dependent electric charge transport in hadronic medium at finite temperature; Ritesh Ghosh, Manu Kurian; Physical Review C 107, 034903 (2023).
  • Thermal and thermoelectric responses of hot QCD medium in time-varying magnetic fields; Gowthama K. K., Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 106, 034008 (2022).
  • Dragging heavy quark in anisotropic QCD medium beyond the static limit; Avdhesh Kumar, Manu Kurian, Santosh K. Das, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review C 105, 054903 (2022).
  • Thermal dilepton production in collisional hot QCD medium in the presence of chromo-turbulent fields; Vinod Chandra, Manu Kurian, Lakshmi J. Naik and V. Sreekanth; Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 49 (2022) 7, 075103.
  • Thermoelectric behaviour of hot collisional and magnetized QCD medium from an effective kinetic theory; Manu Kurian; Physical Review D 103, 054024 (2021).
  • Electromagnetic response of hot QCD medium in the presence of background time-varying fields; Gowthama K. K., Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 104, 094037 (2021).
  • Heavy quark transport coefficients in a viscous QCD medium with collisional and radiative processes; Adiba Shaikh, Manu Kurian, Santosh K. Das, Vinod Chandra, Sadhana Dash, B. K. Nandi; Physical Review D 104, 034017 (2021).
  • Heavy quark transport in an anisotropic hot QCD medium: collisional and radiative processes; Jai Prakash, Manu Kurian, Santhosh K. Das and Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 103, 094009 (2021).
  • Response of a weakly magnetized QCD medium to inhomogeneous electric field; Gowthama K. K., Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 103, 074017 (2021).
  • Second order relativistic viscous hydrodynamics within an effective description of hot QCD medium; Samapan Bhadury, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra, Amaresh Jaiswal; Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 48 (2021), 105104
  • Dynamics of QCD Matter—current status; A. Jaiswal, M.Kurian et.al, ; International Journal of Modern Physics E 24 (2021) 2130001.
  • Thermal transport in a weakly magnetized hot QCD medium; Manu Kurian; Physical Review D 102, 014041(2020).
  • Charm quark dynamics in quark-gluon plasma with 3+1 D viscous hydrodynamics; Manu Kurian, Mayank Singh, Vinod Chandra, Sangyong Jeon, and Charles Gale; Physical Review C 102, 044907 (2020).
  • First order dissipative hydrodynamics and viscous corrections to the entropy four-current from an effective covariant kinetic theory; Samapan Bhadury, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra, Amaresh Jaiswal; Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 47, 085108 (2020).
  • Impact of longitudinal bulk viscous effects to heavy quark transport in a strongly magnetized hot QCD medium; Manu Kurian, Santhosh K. Das, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 101, 094024 (2020).
  • Heavy quark dynamics in a hot magnetized QCD medium; Manu Kurian, Santhosh K. Das, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 100, 074003 (2019).
  • Longitudinal conductivity of hot magnetized collisional QCD medium in the inhomogeneous electric field; Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 99, 116018 (2019).
  • Transport coefficients of hot magnetized QCD matter beyond the lowest Landau level approximation; Manu Kurian, Sukanya Mitra, S. Ghosh, Vinod Chandra; European Physical Journal C 97, 134 (2019).
  • Bulk viscosity of a hot QCD medium in a strong magnetic field within the relaxation-time approximation; Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 97, 116008 (2018).
  • Effective description of hot QCD medium in strong magnetic field and longitudinal conductivity; Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; Physical Review D 96, 114026 (2017).

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

  • Thermal and Electric Charge Transport in a Weakly Magnetized Hot QCD Medium Manu Kurian; Proceedings of DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, Springer Proc.Phys. 277 (2022) 391-395.
  • Dynamics of QCD Matter—current status and Developments; Santosh K. Das, M. Kurian, et.al, ; arXiv:2211.06729 (2022), International Journal of Modern Physics E 31 (2022) 12.
  • Electric charge transport in QCD medium in the presence of time-varying electromagnetic fields; Gowthama K. K., Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; DAE Symp. Nucl. Phys. 65, 742-743 (2022).
  • Charm quark transport within viscous QCD medium: Colliding and radiating; Adiba Shaikh, Manu Kurian, Santosh K. Das, Vinod Chandra, Sadhana Dash, B. K. Nandi; PoS CHARM2020 (2021) 060.
  • Transport phenomena in the hot magnetized quark-gluon plasma; Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; Proceedings of XXIII DAE High Energy Physics Symposium, Springer Proc.Phys. 261 (2021) 1013-1017.
  • Relativistic Dissipative Hydrodynamics: Quasiparticle Description; Samapan Bhadury, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra, A. Jaiswal; International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2019), Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 250. Springer, Cham.
  • First order dissipative hydrodynamics from an effective fugacity model; Samapan Bhadury, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra, A. Jaiswal; DAE Symp. Nucl. Phys. 64, 810-811 (2020).
  • Hot nuclear matter in strong magnetic field; Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra; DAE Symp.Nucl.Phys. 62, 918-919 (2017).

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)


 

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

  • Reviewer of Journal: Physical Review C (PRC)
  • Reviewer of Journal: Physical Review D (PRD)
  • Reviewer of Journal: Nuclear Physics B
  • Reviewer of Journal: International Journal of Modern Physics E (IJMPE)

Guidance

Ph.D

  • Arnab Sarkar (2024- present)

  • Pritipadma Sahoo (2025-present)

  • Anandhakrishnan S R (2025-present)

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