Tarun Souradeep is new RRI director

Bengaluru: Senior gravitational waves and cosmology expert Prof

Tarun Souradeep

took charge as director of

Raman Research Institute

(

RRI

) in Bengaluru on Thursday. Describing RRI as an institution with a rich heritage and unique scientific legacy, he said, “It is an honour to be at the helm of RRI. It has nurtured a healthy balance of top-end research, together with technological capability that holds great promise for future frontier endeavours on a par with the best in the world.” Souradeep was earlier a professor and chair of the physics department at

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

. “His area of expertise is cosmology and gravitational wave physics and astronomy, and he has made important contributions and succeeded in creating a strong, sustained Indian effort addressing issues on a par with international research,” RRI said in a statement. RRI is an autonomous institute funded by the

department of science and technology

. tnn