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Saraswat Bhattacharyya

Election Year: 2019

Election Constituency: India

Scholar Status: Scholar Alum

Rhodes Identifier: India & St John's 2019

Saraswat Bhattacharyya

Biography

Saraswat Bhattacharyya is an undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is the recipient of KVPY Scholarship offered by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He was a Visiting Undergraduate Research Fellow at Harvard University (May 2018- July 2018). Saraswat is working in condensed matter physics. He is interested in developing novel approaches of solving problems, and adapting interdisciplinary ideas from other fields of research. He has received rigorous training in Indian Classical Instrumental Music on the Sarod under late Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta, Padmabhushan, and Ustad Abir Hussain.