Broad Research Interests: Active galactic nuclei, Blazars, Jet launching mechanisms, Gamma-ray Astronomy, Time-domain astronomy, Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope and Detectors.

Research highlights:

1. Detection of the observational signature of Poynting flux dominated jet

Shukla and Mannheim 2020, Nature Communications, Volume 11, article id. 4176

2. Detection of minute-scale γ-ray variability in CTA 102

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 854, L26, (2018)

3. Detection of hardest γ-ray spectrum above 10 GeV in Mrk 501

The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 832, 177, (2016)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5656-2657

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=2&user=A-bgSX5TSyMC

Academic and Research positions

• October 2019 -- Present: Assistant Professor at Discipline of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Indore, India

• January 2019 -- August 2019: Visitor Post Doctoral position at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India

• March 2016 -- September 2018: Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/astro/home/)

• November 2014 -- November 2015: Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Particle Physics, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland (ipa.phys.ethz.ch/)

• May 2013 -- November 2014: Post Doctoral Fellow at Department of High Energy Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India (www.tifr.res.in/~dhep/ )

Education

• PhD: Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore (www.iiap.res.in/)

• M.Sc.: University of Pune

• B.Sc.: P. P. N. College, C. S. J. M. University, Kanpur

Media Attention to Our Research Work

Altmetric

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17912-z/metrics

PhysicsWorld: Magnetic reconnection drives mini-jets in blazar

Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/uow-sbh082120.php

Physics. Org: Research investigates variability of the blazar Mrk 421

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-variability-blazar-mrk.html

www.bhaskar.com/local/mp/indore/news/where-do-light-rays-come-from-the-black-holes-of-the-akash-ganges-professor-of-indore-iit-found-out-in-research-127697375.html?fbclid=IwAR10wj6b_088AjV4s0uicdCzFNWy4uZJMLp4yZmzn4yY0hEtwP0FxVAv8KU&_branch_match_id=686572842863781924&utm_campaign=127697375&utm_medium=sharing

My Group:

Ms. Sushmita Agarwal (PhD Student, IIT Indore)

Mr. Anurag Arya (M.Sc Student, IIT Indore)

Mr. Chandan K Das (M.Sc Student, IIT Indore)

Mr. Jincen Jose (M.Sc Student, CBSE, Raipur)

Mr. jishnu vijayan (M.Sc Student, Karnataka University)

Member of collaborations present and past & close collaborators

• Member: FACT, CTA-India, & HAGAR

• Collaborate with: MAGIC, HESS, Fermi-LAT & AstroSat

• Prof. Karl Mannheim, Dr. D. Dorner, C. Wendel - Universit\"{a}t W\"{u}rzburg, W\"{u}rzburg}

• Prof. R. Mishra, Prof. G. C. Dewangan, Dr. Savithri E and Dr. P. Pawar - IUCAA

• Dr. A. Agarwal- RRI

• Dr. D. Paneque- Max-Plank, Munich

• Prof. David. J. Thompson - GSFC, NASA

• Prof. A. Biland- ETH, Zurich

• Dr. V. R. Chitnis, Prof. A. R Rao, S. Patel, A. Sarkar- TIFR, Mumbai

• Prof. G. C. Anupama, Prof. Arun Mangalam- IIA, Bangalore

• Dr. P. Subramanian - IISER, Pune

• Dr. Frank Rieger - University of Heidelberg & MPIK, Heidelberg

Teaching (COURSES)

• AA 201 : Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics

• AA 202N : Astronomical Techniques

• AA 608: Astrostatistics

• AA 472/672 : Galactic and Extra-galactic Astronomy

• AA 601N : Astrophysical Fluids and Plasma

• AA 602 : Advanced Topics in Astronomy and Astrophysics

• AA 652 - Astronomy Laboratory II