Prof Bedangadas Mohanty has been elected as Fellow of American Physical Society for the year 2020 for his distinguished contribution to the study of the Quantum Chromodynamics Phase Diagram and Search for the QCD Critical Point in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions at both the relativistic heavy ion collider and the large hadron collider.
Dr Mohanty has contributed to the establishment of the quark-hadron transition and first direct comparison between experimental high energy heavy-ion collisions data and QCD calculations and the "Physics World" considered it among the 10 best in the year 2011.
His work in the STAR experiment has led to an exciting possibility of the existence of a critical point in the phase diagram of QCD. One of the works established the observable for the critical point search in the experiment. This is considered as a landmark work in the field.He has very successfully led the beam energy scan physics program in this direction to publish important scientific papers in Physical Review Letters related to the QCD Critical Point.
Prof Mohanty has been selected for all the three Academy fellows in India. He got the highest award in Science in India: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in the year 2015.
He is also the recipient of JC Bose Fellow in 2016. Other than these he is the recipient of many awards in the field of Physical Sciences.