Anirban Chakraborti is Professor and Dean of the School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. He has held several academic and research positions at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Helsinki University of Technology, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Banaras Hindu University and the École Centrale Paris. In 2009, he received the Young Scientist Medal from the Indian National Science Academy. His areas of research include econophysics, statistical physics and quantum physics.