Teaching Faculties
Dr. Ratan Kumar Bera
Associate Professor Department of Physics
- ratan.bera@jaipur.manipal.edu
- PhD Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) 2018
- M.Sc. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 2012
- B.Sc. Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, (University of Calcutta) 2010
- Plasma Physics
- NASA Heliophysics Supporting Research (HSR) grant , Role-Co-I, 2023-2026 (Amount: $824K)
- Best Poster Presentation Awards in PSSI Coferences by PSSI (2014 and 2015)
- Travel grants from APS-DPP (2017) and Strong field science India (2014, 2015)
- Secured ranks in JEST 2013, GATE 2012 and UGC-NET 2012
- Teaching and Mentoring:
- Taught various core physics subjects to undergraduate and graduate students.
- Supervised four project students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
- Assisted in organizing workshops and conferences
- Life member, Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI)
- Student Member, American Physical Society (APS), USA, 2016-2020
- Regular Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU), USA, since 2021
- Regular member, Solar Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) Workshop, USA, since 2022
- R. K. Bera et al., "The role of pickup ions in the interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium. II. Effects of solar cycle," Astrophysical Journal, vol. 990, no. 5, (2025)
- R. K. Bera et al., "The role of pickup ions in the interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium. I. Importance of kinetic processes at the heliospheric termination shock"", Astrophysical Journal, vol. 954, no. 147, (2023)
- "F. Fraternale, N. V. Pogorelov, and R. K. Bera, "Constraining the Properties of the Multicomponent Local Interstellar Medium: MHD-kinetic Modeling Validated by Voyager and New Horizons Data", Astrophysical Journal Letter, vol. 974, no. L15 (2024)"
- R. K. Bera et al., "The effect of viscosity and resistivity on Rayleigh-Taylor instability induced mixing in magnetized high-energy-density plasmas"", Journal of Plasma Physics, vol. 88, no. 905880209, (2022)
- R. K. Bera et al., "Relativistic electron beam driven longitudinal wake-wave breaking in a cold plasma"", Physics of Plasmas, vol. 23, no. 8, (2016)
