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 has been a guest on the TRS Podcast and Hyperquest, along with being an invited public intellectual at various litfests like Auroville Litfest and Pune International Literature Festival.
Dr. Guha Majumdar has published extensively across Springer Nature, Elsevier and AIP journals. In 2026, he has been invited to speak at various prominent institutions and fora including Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), the Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT), University of Massachusetts and the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) – Department of Space (Government of India), where he was invited to deliver the 36th PRL Amrut Rajbhasha Lecture. He organized an international roundtable on Quantum Artificial Intelligence under the Road to India AI Impact Summit 2026, under the aegis of the Government of India’s IndiaAI Mission, and has served as a national resource person for National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
