Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha

Education and career

Kulshreshtha obtained B.Sc. (1969) and M.Sc. (1971) degrees from Jiwaji University, Gwalior. He received his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Delhi, under the supervision of R. P. Saxena. Following an appointment as lecturer in physics at Rajdhani College of the University of Delhi in 1977, Kulshreshtha worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kaiserslautern (1982–1984). He then held five-year positions at the University of Delhi (1986–1991) and the University of Kaiserslautern (1990–1994) before being appointed a professor at the University of Delhi in 1994. Kulshreshtha remained a professor at the University of Delhi until 2016, serving as Head of the Department of Physics and Astrophysics during 2007–2010. Since 2011 he was several times visiting faculty in the Nuclear Physics Theory Group at Iowa State University.

Research

Kulshreshtha's research focuses on formal aspects of quantum field theory and string field theory, in particular instant-form and light-front quantization. He is a member of the International Light Cone Advisory Committee, and helped organize the 2012 International Conference on Light-Cone Physics at the University of Delhi. He also studies boson stars, black holes and wormholes in general relativity, work which was profiled by the American Physical Society's PhysicsCentral site.

Kulshreshtha has written over 60 scientific articles, which have received over 400 citations.