Faculty Member, Cambridge Central Asia Forum
Chairman
Jesus College, Cambridge
About
Siddharth Saxena is Chairperson of the Cambridge Central Asia Forum and Honorary Secretary of the Committee for Central and Inner Asia. He is a Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge and He is also a Senior Research Associate and College Lecturer in Physics. He was awarded the 2006 IUPAP Young Scientist Medal in the field of magnetism.
He trained as a physicist, anthropologist and historian . One technical side his expertise is in Experimental Physics, Chemistry and instrumentation development and on his social science research interests are in the areas of religion and identity, knowledge systems and institutional history of Central Asia and the Middle East.
He has set up high-pressure cell company, CAMCELL, in 2006. and also advises the Governments and UNESCO, UNIFEM, UNDP for education in Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Middle East. Portfolio of advice held up to cabinet and ministerial level.
He has been a EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow, Sarah Woodhead Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, a Fellow at University College, London and at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, after completing a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1997. He also has completed Doctoral degree in Social Anthropology.
Recently, he has been an organiser and session-chair at the Gordon Conference on Superconductivity, SCES conference and Conference Chair of QCCM. He has been invited to speak at more than 60 international conferences. He has been awarded grants from the EPSRC, the Royal Society and the European Science Foundation, KAIST (Korea Cambridge Collaboration) and Neutron and X-Ray time at sources in UK and abroad.
Contact Information
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