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Dabholkar was born on September 16, 1963 in Kolhapur, India; the son of Shripad and Vrinda (Abhyannkar) Dabholkar.
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Dabholkar was born on September 16, 1963 in Kolhapur, India; the son of Shripad and Vrinda (Abhyannkar) Dabholkar.
Dabholkar studied at Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur from 1980 to 1985 and received his Master of Science degree. In 1990, he graduated from Princeton University in New Jersey with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics.
Dabholkar began his career as a Post-doctoral Associate at Rutgers University in Piscataway, where he worked from 1990 to 1993. During 1993, he held a position of a Post-doctoral Associate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 1994, Dabholkar became a Senior Research Fellow at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California and held it for two years.
Atish was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University in Stanford, California in 2003-2004. Two years later, he took a position of a Staff Associate at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Trieste in Italy, where he worked until 2009.
Since 1996, he has been working as a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. He has also been a Director of Research at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Laboratory of Theoretical and High Energy Physics (LPTHE) in Paris, since 2007.
In 2001 Dabholkar was the coorganizer of the Strings Conference held at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Atish Dabholkar is well known for his research on string theory, black holes and quantum gravity. In his work in collaboration with Jeffrey A. Harvey, Dabholkar identified a spectrum of supersymmetric states (now known as "Dabholkar-Harvey states") and initiated the study of supersymmetric solitons in string theory which played an important role in the discovery of duality symmetries in string theory and later in the study of quantum entropy of black holes.
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Dabholkar is a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
On January 7, 1987 Atish Dabholkar married Sandhya Gokhale. They have a child.
