Sabiha Majumder – a former PhD from the lab – joins banking/finance sector

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Hearty congratulations to Dr. Sabiha Majumder who is all set to join ING in Amsterdam on a new exciting career path of banking/finance.

Sabiha got a PhD from the Physics department of IISc in 2017/18, working jointly with me and Sriram Ramaswamy. Her thesis applied ideas from nonequilibrium statistical physics and stochastic systems to analyse risks of ecological collapse. She published a number of excellent papers on this topic, in prestigious ecology journals. After her PhD, she joined ETH-Zurich for a postdoc, where she continued for two years.

In her new job, Sabiha will be employing her interdisciplinary skills as a Risk analyst in the banking/finance sector!

This shows how skills learnt in PhD are highly transferable. One need not continue in the traditional academic set up after PhD — something that a lot of PhD aspirants are unaware of. There are a large number of opportunities outside the academic set up where skills of PhD are going to be extraordinarily useful.

 

We have been awarded an UGC-UKIERI grant for collaboration with Colin Torney

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We are delighted that we have been awarded an UGC-UKIERI grant for collaboration with Colin Torney in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow and my colleague Dr Kavita Isvaran at CES. The grant amount is around 25,000 UK Pounds (equivalent to around 25 lakhs) and is valid from March 2018 – March 2020.

The ideas and work proposed here are by PhD student Akanksha Rathore who is jointly advised by me and Kavita. The grant will help both of our groups to travel back and forth, and work on investigating collective behaviour of blackbuck in the wild.

This is our second collaborative grant with Colin Torney, the previous one being funded by Royal Society which was instrumental in starting our collaboration as well as getting this grant.

 

 

 

Winter School on Modern Finance and Macroeconomics: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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Together with my collaborators Prof. Srinivas Raghavendra and Prof. Srikanth Iyer, we are organizing an exciting ICTS workshop on Modern Finance and Macroeconomics: A Multidisciplinary Approach.

We have put up various pages to help you know more about the program. Here they are:

PS: My interest in this area stems from analogous behaviours of regime shifts in ecosystems and abrupt stock market crashes in financial systems. See this page for more.