Rohini Godbole

Rohini Godbole is an Indian physicist and academic. She is a professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.^[1] She has worked extensively on different aspects of particle phenomenology over the past three decades, in particular on exploring different aspects of the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) and the physics beyond it (BSM). Her work regarding hadronic structure of high-energy photons outlined a variety of ways in which to study it and has had implications for the design of next generation electron positron colliders. She is an elected fellow of all the three academies of Science of India and also the Science Academy of the Developing World (TWAS).^[2]

Research Fields

Godbole has been working in the following areas-^[3]

• New Particle Production at current and future colliders
• Physics at Large Hadron Collider and Next Linear Collider
• QCD phenomenology: Structure Functions of a proton, photon and nucleus
• Supersymmetry and Electroweak Physics

Education and Career

Rohini Godbole obtained her BSc from Sir Parshurambhau College, University of Pune, MSc from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and PhD (1979) in theoretical particle physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.^[4] Prof. Godbole joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai as a visiting fellow in 1979. She was Lecturer and Reader at the Department of Physics, University of Bombay from 1982 to 1995. She joined the Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as Associate Professor in 1995 and has been Professor since June 1998. Currently she is Professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Contribution

Prof. Godbole is part of the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG)^[5][6] for the International Linear Collider in the European research lab, CERN. The International Detector Advisory Group monitors the ILC detector research and development of the Research Directorate and the detector design groups. She is the Chair of the Panel for Women in Science initiative of the Indian Academy of Sciences.^[7] Along with Ram Ramaswamy, Godbole jointly edited Lilavati's Daughters, a collection of biographical essays on women scientists of India, which was published in the form of book by Indian Academy of Sciences in 2008.^[8]

Awards

• Satyendranath Bose Medal of Indian National Science Academy (2009)^[9]
• Fellowship of National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) (2007)^[10]
• Fellowship of Academy of Sciences of the Developing World, TWAS 2009^[11]

References

Other sources

• Autobiographical article by Rohini Godbole in Lilavati's Daughters