Ritabrata Munshi is a Professor of Mathematics at School of Mathematics, TIFR, Mumbai and is presently on lien to ISI, Kolkata. He received his PhD from Princeton University (2006), under the supervision of Sir Andrew Wiles. During 2006–2009 he was the Hill Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University and has also spent a year (2009–2010) at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University before returning to India and joining TIFR, Mumbai. He specializes in number theory and has made major contributions to the subconvexity problem, analytic aspects of L-functions and automorphic forms as well as Diophantine equations. He is the recipient of many awards including the Swarnajayanti Fellowship by DST (2012), the Birla Science Prize (2013), the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2015), and the Infosys Science Prize (2017). He is also an invited speaker for the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 at Brazil. He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2017.