Dr. Sai Harshini Tekur
Senior Researcher (Physics)
Education
• Ph.D. Physics - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India 2019
• M.Sc., Physics - Bangalore University, India, (2009-2011)
• B.Sc., - National Degree College Jayanagar, India (2006-2009)
Research Interests
• Classical and Quantum Chaos
• Quantum Computing -Algorithms and Architectures
• Random Matrix Theory in Complex Systems

Professional Experience
• Research Associate: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India (2022-2024)
• Georg Endress Fellow: University of Freiburg, Germany (2021-2022)
• Postdoctoral Fellow- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS) Dresden, Germany (2019-2021)
Biography
Dr. Sai Harshini is a Senior Researcher at Prayoga, specializing in random matrix theory, quantum chaos, and quantum computation. She completed her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Dresden followed by a stint at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg as a Georg Endress Fellow. She returned to IISER Pune to work as a Research Associate before joining Prayoga. Her doctoral work involved finding and analyzing spectral measures to characterize quantum chaos, and she continues to work on these, as well as related aspects including the physics of many-body systems, quantum information measures, and network theory.
Ongoing Research Projects
Will be updated soon
Representative Publication
Higher-order spacing ratios in random matrix theory and complex quantum systems, SH Tekur, UT Bhosale, MS Santhanam, Physical Review B 98 (10), 104305, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.104305
Symmetry deduction from spectral fluctuations in complex quantum systems, S. Harshini Tekur and M. S. Santhanam, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032063(R), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.032063
Awards/Honours/Affiliation/Membership
1. Georg Endress Fellow, University of Freiburg, Germany (2021-2022)