Samindranath (Sami) Mitra received his Ph.D. at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1994, where he
worked on certain theoretical aspects of the quantum Hall effect. After a stint working on chemical physics at
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, Sami arrived at Physical Review Letters. He handles
papers on mainly transport properties in semiconductors, 2D materials, and mesoscopic systems. Sami grew up in
Kolkata and Delhi, and learned to love opera in Bloomington.