Faculty Profile

Dr. Sabyasachi Maulik is an Assistant Professor in Physics at the Xavier School of Engineering and Technology, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata. He carried out his Ph.D. thesis at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. Prior to joining St. Xavier's University, he held postdoctoral positions at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include quantum field theory, string theory, gravity, holography, and mathematical physics, with a particular focus on black holes, and gauge/gravity duality.

• Ph. D. in Physics from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, a CI of Homi Bhabha National Institute, 2023.
• M. Sc. in Physics from IIT Kharagpur, 2018.
• B. Sc. with honours in Physics from Acharya B. N. Seal College, University of North Bengal, 2016.

• July 2026 – present: Assistant professor in Physics, Xavier School of Engineering and Technology, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata.

• S. Maulik, A. Mitra, D. Mukherjee and A. Ray, Logarithmic corrections to near-extremal entropy of charged de Sitter black holes, JHEP 01 (2026) 156 [2503.08617].
• S. Maulik, X. Meng and L.A. Pando Zayas, Quantum-corrected Hawking radiation from near-extremal Kerr-Newman black holes, JHEP 02 (2026) 205 [2501.08252].
• S. Maulik, L.A. Pando Zayas, A. Ray and J. Zhang, Universality in logarithmic temperature corrections to near-extremal rotating black hole thermodynamics in various dimensions, JHEP 06 (2024) 034 [2401.16507].
• K. Banerjee, R. Basu, B. Krishnan, S. Maulik, A. Mehra and A. Ray, One-loop quantum effects in Carroll scalars, Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 085022 [2307.03901].
• S. Maulik and H. Singh, Entanglement entropy and the first law at third order for boosted black branes, JHEP 04 (2021) 065 [2012.09530].

• Joint CSIR-UGC NET for Junior Research Fellowship, 2017.