Spenta R. Wadia

Spenta R. Wadia is an Indian theoretical physicist working in string theory and quantum field theory. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and the first Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS). He is a recipient of the 2004 TWAS Prize in Physics.

Spenta Wadia did his bachelors from St. Xavier's College, Bombay and masters from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He obtained his Ph.D. from City College of City University of New York in 1978. He then worked at University of Chicago from 1978-82 first as a research fellow and then as a staff scientist. He finally moved to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1982 where he remains to this day.

He is well known for his contributions to string theory, especially for the black hole solution in two dimensional string theory and various other work relating to the black holes in the context of string theory. He has published around 80 papers in reputable scientific journals.