Sumathi Rao was born on 5 December 1956 and is an Indian theoretical physicist and professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru, working in the field of condensed matter physics.
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Sumathi Rao is a former member of women in physics promotion of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics from 2000 to 2008.
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Sumathi Rao received her doctoral degree entitled B-L violation in grand unified theories from Stony Brook University, US under the supervision of Robert Shrock in 1983.
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Sumathi Rao completed her PhD in high energy physics in the sub-field of grand unified theories.
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Sumathi Rao made the crucial decision to shift her field of research to theoretical condensed matter physics from high energy physics upon finding that her achievements were being belittled, and her work and papers attributed to her husband Ashoke Sen who was working in the same field.
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Sumathi Rao is currently a condensed matter systems Professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute and has been there since 1995.
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Sumathi Rao has been working in the area of electronic transport in quantum wires, quantum dots and in the field of correlated mesoscopic physics in low dimensions.
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Sumathi Rao worked as an associate scientist at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, a centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste.
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Sumathi Rao has always been vocal about the detrimental biases faced by women academic scholars.
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Sumathi Rao has involved in the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics working group women in physics which has been working to increase the representation of women in physics, particularly at higher and decisionmaking levels of from its inception in 2000 until 2008.
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Sumathi Rao wrote articles focusing on the topic of getting girls interested in a career in science or engineering and interested in reaching the top of their profession, the hurdles they will have to face, and the ways to improve their chances of making it to the top of respective fields.
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Sumathi Rao has been awarded as Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India in 2001 and Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2017 for her contributions in the theoretical condensed matter physics.