Faculty Details
Rahul Poddar
Designation
Assistant Professor in Mathematics
Areas of Interest/Specialisation
Riemannian Geometry
Google CV Link:
https://www.sites.google.com/view/rahul-poddar
Name and details of Ph.D. Degree awarded Institution
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL), India (2023)
Awards/Honours
National Postdoctoral Fellowship (N-PDF), 2026 — Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Government of India.- Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2024 — Department of Atomic Energy(DAE), Government of India.
- ICM 2026 Travel Support, 2026 — Selected for travel support to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2026), Philadelphia, USA, awarded by the Simons Foundation and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and its Commission for Developing Countries (CDC).
- ANRF International Travel Support (ITS), 2024 — Anusandhan National.Research Foundation (ANRF), Government of India.
- DAE Foreign Travel Support, 2024 — Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India.
- CSIR–UGC National Eligibility Test (NET), 2019 — Qualified with All India Rank (AIR) 93.
- North-East State Level Eligibility Test (NE-SLET), 2019 — Qualified.
- IIT Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (IIT-JAM), 2016 — Qualified.
Research Experience
- National Postdoctoral Researcher, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India, January 1 – August 3, 2026.
National Postdoctoral Fellowship (N-PDF), Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Government of India. - Institute Postdoctoral Researcher, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India February 14, 2024 – December 31, 2025.
Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India.
Best Peer-reviewed Publications (Best 05)
- R. Poddar. On Non-Compact Extended Bach Solitons. Mathematische Nachrichten, 299(5), pp. 1140-1151, 2026.
- E. Griffin, R. Poddar, R. Sharma and W. Wylie. Extended Solitons of the Ambient Obstruction Flow. The Journal of Geometric Analysis, 35(5), pp. 163, 2025.
- A. W. Cunha, A. N. Silva Jr. and R. Poddar. Characterization of q-solitons under Trace conditions and Conformal vector fields. Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques, 206, pp. 103746, 2026.
- R. Poddar, S. Balasubramanian and R. Sharma. Generalized m-Quasi Einstein Manifolds Admitting a Closed Conformal Vector Field. Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, 202(6), pp. 2687-2697, 2023.
- R. Poddar, R. Sharma and A. W. Cunha. Some Rigidity Results on Non-Compact Almost Ricci Solitons. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 550(1), pp. 129543, 2025.
- R. Poddar. Remarks on Cotton Solitons. Letters in Mathematical Physics, 114(4), pp. 95, 2024.
- A. Ghosh, R. Sharma and R. Poddar. Recent Results on Ricci and Yamabe Solitons in Contact Geometry. Contemporary Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 2025.
- R. Poddar. A Liouville-type theorem for subharmonic functions and its applications to Quasi-Einstein Manifolds. Archiv der Mathematik , pp. 1-9, 2026.
- R. Poddar and R. Sharma. On the Triviality of modified Conformal Vector Fields. Indagationes
Mathematicae, pp. 1-10, 2025. - R. Poddar, R. Sharma and S. Balasubramanian. Certain Classification Results on m-quasi Einstein Manifolds. Results in Mathematics, 78(5), pp. 197, 2023.