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A small team building an experimental physics lab from the ground up.

Dr. K T Satyajith

Dr. K T Satyajith

Founder Director, IMJIR, and Head, Delta Q

An experimental physicist with over 20 years in research, teaching and instrumentation. His PhD at Bangalore University (2011), under Dr. Sharath Ananthamurthy, built one of India's first electron-trap facilities and won the ISAMP–BRNS national best thesis award.

He is a visiting scientist at GSI, Germany, working on the g-factor of bound electrons, and collaborates with Helmholtz Institute Mainz, IUAC Delhi, VECC Kolkata and IIST Trivandrum. He set up the Integrated M.Sc. programme at Amrita University and the quantum computation curriculum at NMAMIT, Nitte.

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Siddharth J. Shetty

Siddharth J. Shetty

Chairman, IMJ Institutions

Chairman of MNBS Trust and founder of IMJIR, with the goal of an international research centre in a rural setting. He has expanded the trust's engineering, management, nursing and degree programmes. An engineer, agriculturist and entrepreneur, he is also active in philanthropy and cultural work.

Research team

  • Vishwa Chandrasekaran

    Vishwa Chandrasekaran

    Junior Research Fellow

    Trapped-ion quantum computation. M.Sc. Physics, Pondicherry University (2023).

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  • Vyshnav Haridas

    Vyshnav Haridas

    Project Associate

    Trapped-ion systems, electron trapping, precision electromagnetic and vacuum systems.

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  • Ahalya P Krishnan

    Ahalya P Krishnan

    Junior Research Fellow

    Electron–positron trapping systems. M.Sc. Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology (2024).