Suvrat Raju

Suvrat Raju is an Indian physicist. He is known for his work on black holes. He was awarded the 2019 ICTP Prize  and the 2022 Nishina Asia award.

Research
Raju advanced a potential resolution of the black hole information paradox, which is based on the idea that "all the information inside a black hole can be recovered from outside" in quantum gravity. Together with Kyriakos Papadodimas, Raju formulated the Papadodimas-Raju proposal for black holes Raju was part of a collaboration that proposed the utility of the Mellin transform in AdS/CFT arguing that it provided a "natural language" for correlation functions. Raju was part of a collaboration that developed an "index" for quantum field theories with super-conformal symmetry.

Career
Raju studied physics at St. Stephen's College in Delhi University from 1999 to 2002. He earned his PhD at Harvard University in 2008. He is currently a professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Awards and honours

 * 2022 Nishina Asia award for "his original and influential insights into the resolution of the black hole information paradox and the principle of holography in quantum gravity."
 * 2020 Asian scientist 100
 * 2019 ICTP Prize "for new insights into the holographic description of black-hole interiors, for clarifying the nature of subtle non-local effects in quantum gravity, and for contributions to the study of the AdS/CFT correspondence."
 * 2017 Swarnajayanti Fellowship
 * 2015 Smt. Saraswathi Cowsik medal
 * 2013 Indian National Science Academy medal for young scientists
 * 2013 National Academy of Sciences of India young scientist award.

Public Advocacy
Raju criticized aspects of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal arguing, with M. V. Ramana, that the Indian nuclear liability bill favored foreign nuclear corporations and that the nuclear reactors that the Indian government was planning to import were expensive. Raju was part of a team of scientists that released a report on the protests at Hyderabad central University in 2016 that was critical of the actions of the university administration. Raju was part of a group of scientists who argued that the 2019 Indian Citizenship (Amendment) Act was "discriminatory".