Name              :   Spenta R. Wadia

                                                Date of Birth     :   1 August 1950
        
                                               Institution          :   Deparment of Theoretical Physics
                                                                            School of Natural Sciences
                                                                            Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
                                                                            Mumbai-400 005, India

Education:

• St. Mary's High School, Bombay, SSC 1967
• Bachelor of Science, St. Xavier's College, University of Bombay, 1971
  
• Master of Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1973
• Doctor of Philosophy, City College of City University of New York, 1978
  

• Enrico Fermi Institute Fellow, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 1978-80 
  
• Staff Scientist, University of Chicago, 1980-82
  
• Faculty of Department of Theoretical Physics, 1982-

• Academic Position :
  Distinguished Professor
• Administrative Positions :
  Chair, Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR,
  and
  Director, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of TIFR

• Distinguished Alumnus of St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
• J.C. Bose Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2006 -
• Indian Physics Association C. V. Raman Lecture, 2005
• TWAS (The Academy of Sciences of the Developing World) Physics Prize, 2004 
• Steven Weinberg Prize of the Abdus Salam International Centerfor Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 1995

Academy Fellowships:

• Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India, elected 1992
  
• Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, Delhi, India, elected 1997
  
• Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, USA, elected 1997
  
• Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India, elected 2000
• Fellow, TWAS, Trieste, Italy, elected 2006

Honorary Positions:

• Staff Associate, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy , 1996-2001
  
• Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 1996
  
• Honorary Faculty, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India

• Member, Commission on Mathematical Physics (C-18), International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), 1997-99-2002.