The Thanu Padmanabhan Centre for Cosmology and Science Popularization (CCSP)

Mohammad Sami, FASc & FNASc is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, known for his work on dark energy. He served as (Founder) director of the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CTP) and also as the Dean of Faculty of Natural Sciences in Jamia Millia Islamia at New Delhi, India. M. Sami has contributed to the cutting-edge areas of research in modern cosmology such as dark energy, modified theories of gravity, quintessential inflation on brane, D-brane inflation and extended schemes of massive gravity. Prof. M.Sami has several research collaborations both at national and international level. Along with his technical research, he strongly encourages the importance of popularizing science in society. He is the recipient of several national and international awarded fellowships such as Hon’ble President of India Visitor’s award for path breaking research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, 2015. He is also the Vice President of Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPS).

M. Sami

Professor and Director of CCSP

PhD: Moscow State University, Russia
M.Sc.: People’s Friendship University, Moscow, M.Sc. Physics, in Theoretical Physics, 1973-1978.
People’s Friendship University, Moscow, Research Associate, Worked on the Construction of Measures in Functional Spaces, 1978-1979.

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Mobile No: +91 98211 03323

EXPERIENCE:

Pool Officer, Dept. of Physics, University of Pune, India, 1983 – 1985.
Lecturer, Dept. of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, 1985 – 1994.
Reader, Dept. of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, 1994 – 2006.
Visiting Scientist at IUCAA, Pune, India, 2002 – 2005.
Professor, Director, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, 2006 – 2020.
Distinguished Professor, International Centre of Cosmology, Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT), Changa, Dist: Anand, Gujarat 388421.
Professor (Foreign Expert) in Eurasian National University, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan.

Research Interest:

Dynamics of early Universe: Phase transitions, primordial black holes and baryogenesis.
Models of dark energy, quintessential inflation and relic gravity waves.
Cosmological Perturbations.
Reheating mechanisms.

KEY PUBLICATIONS:

E. J. Copeland, M. Sami and S. Tsujikawa, Dynamics of dark energy, Int.J.Mod.Phys. D15, 1753-1936(2006). (This paper is cited by the Nobel committee document, 2011 in Class for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on the accelerating universe).
S. Nojiri, S. D. Odintsov and M. Sami, Dark energy cosmology from higher-order, string-inspired gravity and its reconstruction, Phys. Rev. D 74, 046004 (2006)
M.Sami and A. Toporensky, Phantom field and the fate of universe, Mod. Phys. Lett. A19, 1509 (2004)
P. Singh, M. Sami and N. Dadhich, Cosmological dynamics of phantom field, Phys. Rev. D 68, 023522 (2003)
E. O. Pozdeeva, M. R. Gangopadhyay, M. Sami, A. V. Toporensky and S. Y. Vernov, Inflation with a quartic potential in the framework of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, Phys. Rev. D102, no.4, 043525 (2020)