Prof. Sudhir Raniwala is an experimental particle physicist. He
retired as a Professor and Dean from the University of Rajasthan in
2020 where he initiated a major change in the curricula. He has
now joined J K Lakshmipat University, Jaipur as Professor
Emeritus.
With a consistent academic record (gold medalist, best thesis award
in the DAE Nuclear Physics Symposium, INSA visiting scientist,
CERN Associate, ICTP Senior Associate), in addition to CERN, he
has worked in different centres in Italy. He was a member of a
number of academic committees including the Physics Board,
Editorial Board and an internal reviewer at different institutes. He
worked in the collaboration experiment ALICE at the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva. His research work was liberally
funded by the Department of Science and Technology. The
University of Rajasthan was granted PURSE grants adding to about
50 crore because of the h-factor of his group’s large number of
publications.
His penchant for pedagogy in teaching makes him a very popular
teacher, as evident in his TEDx talk
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZhUSTEGJ0 ). He has
written a number of popular articles in newspapers explaining
concepts in frontiers of science.
He feels strongly about ethics in academics and has worked to
sensitise the community through a number of talks, newspaper
articles and communication with various national and state
authorities. Some of his efforts have contributed to the UGC
regulation 2018 on academic integrity. Prof. Raniwala was also the
Dean/ Director of LNMIIT for two years while maintaining his lien.
