For a world-class physics research institute in India
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- from Shaastra :: vol 05 issue 06 :: Jun 2026
Theoretical physicist Jainendra K. Jain on the excitement, and the challenges, of establishing privately funded research institutes in India.
Jainendra K. Jain is Evan Pugh University Professor and Eberly Chair in Physics at Penn State University. He recently took over as Founding Director of the Lodha Theoretical Physics Institute, and plans to establish one of the few privately funded research Initiatives in India. Jain has been widely decorated for his composite fermion theory – a theoretical picture that was experimentally verified – which explains the experimental phenomena of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect. In an interview with Shaastra, he addressed the role of privately funded research in India. Excerpts:
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