Lokesh Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Panjab University Chandigarh. His responsibilites at Panjab University include teaching, research, and academic/administrative works. He is working in the field of Experimental High Energy Physics (EHEP). He is actively participating in the research program of Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (STAR) experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY, USA; A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; and Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany.
Dr. Lokesh works in the field of Quark Gluon Plasma. His research interest is the understanding of the phase structure of the Quantum Chromo Dynamic (QCD) phase diagram. QCD phase diagram is usually plotted as temperature (T) versus baryon chemical potential (μB). Quark Gluon Plasma is a state of matter where quarks and gluons exist in free state rather than in a hadronic volume. This state is believed to have existed few microsecond after the big-bang. Lattice QCD predicts a transition to QGP at high temperature which can be achieved in experiments by smashing heavy-ions at relativistic speed.