Rate My Professor Tanmay Maji

Tanmay Maji is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, a position he has held since 2022. His research specialization lies in theoretical high energy physics, with a focus on quantum chromodynamics. Key areas of his work include jet event shapes, soft-collinear effective theory, event shapes in deep inelastic scattering for future electron-ion colliders, angularity in Higgs boson decays, hadronic structure phenomenology using light-front quark-diquark models, form factors, transverse momentum dependent parton distributions, Wigner distributions, and single spin asymmetries.

Maji earned his PhD from the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2018, having qualified the Joint Admission Test for MSc (JAM) 2010 with an All India Rank of 68. His postdoctoral appointments include positions at the Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University in Shanghai; the Department of Physics at IIT Bombay; and as a National Postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Hyderabad. Notable publications encompass 'A light front quark-diquark model for the nucleons' (Phys. Rev. D 94, 094020, 2016), 'Wigner distributions and orbital angular momentum of a proton' (Eur. Phys. J. C 76, 409, 2016), 'Transverse structure of a proton in a light-front quark-diquark model' (Phys. Rev. D 95, 074009, 2017), 'Leading twist generalized parton distributions and spin densities in a proton' (Phys. Rev. D 96, 013006, 2017), and 'Quark generalized TMDs at skewness and Wigner distributions' (Phys. Rev. D 107, 074040, 2023). He has received the Gary McCartor Award 2018 from the international Light Cone Advisory Committee and Jefferson Lab, the Young Researcher Award 2019 from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation amounting to Rs. 12 lakh, a Best Poster Award at the Helmholtz International Summer School 2017, and travel grants from CSIR, SERB, and IIT Kanpur. Maji serves as principal investigator for a SERB project on soft-collinear effective theory approach to precision angularity event shapes at high energy hadron colliders and is a member of the EIC-India-Theory Alliance.