Saurabh Basu is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He carries out research in the field of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, with a focus on graphene, topological insulators and ultracold atoms. He obtained his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, before undertaking a post-doctoral fellowship at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India and at Queens University, Canada. He has published over 130 research articles and has been a contributor for edited volumes published by CRC Press and World Scientific.