Dr Sandeep Gautam joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics on 15 December 2016. His broad research interest is in the field of ultracold quantum gases. He received his PhD in 2012 from the Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad. He then worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. After that, he joined Sao Paulo State University as a post-doctoral Fellow. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at IIT Ropar.