Bedangadas Mohanty is a Professor of Physics at the School of Physical Sciences, NISER, Bhubaneswar. He is currently the spokesperson of the India-ALICE-STAR Collaboration. He was a Scientific Associate at the experimental physics division, CERN working in ALICE. He is a member of the SuperCDMS collaboration for dark matter search. Bedangadas did his Masters from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (1996), Ph.D. from Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (2002), and Postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA. He was at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata during (2002-2012). Bedangadas won many awards and honours for his academic excellence. Fellow of American physical society (2020), INFOSYS prize in physical sciences (2021), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) , J C Bose National Fellowship (2017), Fellow of all three National Science Academies (2017), Bhatnagar Prize (2015), Swarna Jayanti Fellowship (2010-11), DAE Outstanding Research Investigator award (2010), DAE Young Scientist award (2006), INSA Young Scientist medal (2003). He is the Editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics.