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Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar is a quantum physicist, philosopher and writer. He is the author of From Shiva to Schrödinger, The Logic of Ish and Urdhva. He is Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) Bengaluru and Chair of the Quantum Information and Intelligence Systems (QuIIS) group at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Delhi NCR.

Having completed his doctorate from Cavendish Laboratory – University of Cambridge, he has been Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, senior postdoctoral researcher at the Indian Institute of Science – Bangalore (funded by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India), and a postdoctoral associate of Nobel Laureate (Physics, 1973) Prof. Brian Josephson at the University of Cambridge. He has been a Trinity Barlow Scholar (2015-2018), Nehru Scholar (2014-2018), INSPIRE Scholar (2011-2014) and TIFR NIUS Fellow (2012-2014). He has been a lead speaker at the National Quantum Mission strategic consultations, in the theme of Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Error Mitigation, and has had training in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from the MIT Schwarzmann School of Computing.

Dr. Guha Majumdar has been showcased by UNESCO twice, in its documentary screened at the Global Convention on Higher Education 2018 and as the lead of the Drafting and Organization Committees for the NGO-UNESCO Position Paper on Youth and Advocacy 2021. He has chaired a C20 session on Education and Technology, besides having his position-paper on technological interventions for pedagogical innovations forwarded by the C20 Secretariat to the G20 2023. Previously, he has worked with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, on competency-based learning, differentiated curriculum and experiential learning, submitting a report that fed into the formulation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

He has been a science communicator, with his documentary on Quantum Mechanics having been aired on Doordarshan, under the Science India initiative. He is the founder-convenor of Mandala, Vijnana Bharati and a founder-director of Scitya STI think tank.