| Citation | Professor Ajay Kumar Sood, Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru , India
Prof. Sood is today the best Indian experimental physicist working in condensed matter. He has initiated several contemporary research areas such as confined and interface phonons in superlattices, squeezed phonon states produced by femtosecond lasers, and generation of electrical voltage by the flow of liquids (gases) on nanotubes (semiconductors). He is most noted for his seminal contributions to soft matter such as discovery of rheochaos, namely of spatio-temporal chaotic dynamics under shear flow, validation of non-equilibrium fluctuation theorem, anisotropic grain growth under stress and flocking transition in active granular matter. The originality, diversity and significance of Professor Sood's contributions are truly remarkable and noteworthy. Prof Sood has received the prestigious TWAS Prize in Physics and was till recently the President of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is one of the important young leaders of Indian science in general and physics in particular.
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