Education
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics in 1981 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics in 1981 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
After spending two years at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy, he returned to India where he has worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental in Mumbai, India since 1984. In November, 2012 he joined Indian Institute of Science Education and, Pune as the head of physics department. His major publications deal with fundamental properties of string theories, and include the conformal invariance of supersymmetric two-dimensional field theories which describe the world-sheet dynamics of strings, the study of supersymmetric solitons using index theorems, the discovery of a new duality between string theory and M-theory, the identification of string networks as supersymmetric states and the discovery of a novel Higgs mechanism in the worldvolume theory of M-theory membranes.
In 2002, he played a role in exposing a series of instances of plagiarism by the Vice-Chancellor of Kumaon University in India.
The Vice-Chancellor was eventually found guilty by a national committee and subsequently resigned. Mukhi has a number of interests in addition to physics, notably Indian Classical Music on which he maintains a webpage, science popularisation which he carries out through seminars at schools and colleges as well as newspaper articles, and cinema, cooking and meditation.
Within the field of Indian Classical Music he has spent considerable effort archiving classic recordings, particularly those of notable vocal artist Pandit Kumar Gandharva on whom he also maintains a webpage. He also writes a blog, named "Tantu-jaal".