Dr. Arpita Mitra
Lecturer, NAS Mahidol University
Research Skills
Analytic
Renormalization group flow and holography
Soft factors from scattering processes on curved backgrounds
Asymptotic symmetries and flat space holography
Quantum information approaches to quantum Gravity
Spontaneous symmetry breaking of higher form global symmetries
Field theoretic and holographic complexity
Gauging of spacetime symmetries in nonrelativistic limit
Path Integral methods related to anomalies and effective field theories
Computation
Programming Languages: Mathematica, Python
Scripting Language: LATEX
Education
2012-2017: Ph.D. : S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India
Supervisor: Prof. Rabin Banerjee ; Co-Supervisor: Prof. Pradip Mukherjee
Thesis: Nonrelativistic diffeomorphism invariance and its applications
Degree awarded: 16/01/2018 (from University of Calcutta)
Areas of research: Field theories on curved backgrounds; Cosmological applications of modified gravity theories
2010–2012: M.Sc. Physics : IIT Madras, India
M.Sc. Thesis: “Magnetoimpedance studies in soft magnetic conductors”
Summer Project: “Elements of Quantum field Theory” (at IACS, Kolkata)
Specialization Topics – General Relativity and Cosmology, Field Theory, High energy physics, Condensed Matter, Advanced electronics & lab
2007–2010: B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics : Scottish Church College, Kolkata, India (affiliated to University of Calcutta)
Past Work Experience
2022-2025: Postdoctoral Fellow @ Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea
2021 – 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow @ NCTS, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan
2019 – 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, India
2018: ICTP Trieste TRIL fellow, UCSC, Brescia, Italy
2017 – 2018: Senior Research Fellow : Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), Kolkata, India
Awards and Fellowships
2024: Brain Korea 21 postdoctoral fellowship
2018: ICTP Trieste TRIL Fellowship
List of Publications
Activities@NAS
Coordinator: Fields for Thoughts; Field theory group seminar
Teaching@NAS
NWTP611: Classical Field Theory in the international PhD program of Mahidol University at NAS in semester 2 of AY2025