Mustansir Barma is an Indian scientist specializing in Statistical Physics. He was former Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research^[1] from 2007 to 2014.

Early life

Mustansir Barma was born in Mumbai to a Dawoodi Bohra family.^[2]

Awards and honours

• Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy (1980).
• Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1983 – 86).
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences awarded by the CSIR (1995).
• Honorary faculty member, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (1998 – 2001).
• DAE Raja Ramanna Prize Lecture in Physics (2004).
• S.N. Bose Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress (2007).
• J.C. Bose Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (2007).
• Seventh Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2009).
• R.S. Goyal Prize for Physics (2006), awarded in 2010.
• Padma Shri Award (2013)^[3]