Academic Appointments

• Oct 2025-Present                     Postdoctoral Scholar-Employee, University of California, Los Angeles

2026 Visitor at Caltech

• Oct 2022-Sep 2025                  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University 

• Aug 2021-Jan 2022                  Predoctoral fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute 

• May 2014-Jul 2016                   Undergraduate Associate, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

Education

• Oct 2018-Sep 2022                  Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences

• Aug 2016-Jul 2018                    MSc in Physics and Astronomy, University of Amsterdam

• Jul 2013-Jun 2016                     BSc in Physics (Honours), St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), University of Calcutta

Awards

• President's Award from the Polish Academy of Sciences (best PhD student) (2021)

• Predoctoral fellowship from the Simons Foundation (2021-2022).

• CAMK Scholarship for the best research article in 2020 (2021)

• Scholarship on neutron star physics, NCN-OPUS Grant (2019-2022, PI B. Haskell).

• Amsterdam Excellence Scholarship, University of Amsterdam (2016-2018) 

• INSPIRE Scholarship, DST, Govt. of India (2013-2016) 

• Certificate of Merit, Top 1% in National Graduate Physics Examination 2016, IAPT

• Best Poster Award, 60th DAE-BRNS Symposium in Nuclear Physics (Dec 2015)

Other achievements

• Selected to study MSc Physics at IIT Kharagpur, BTech in Computer Science Engineering at NIT, and BTech in Chemical Engineering at Jadavpur University (based on Class 12 Joint Entrance Examinations).

• All India Rank 9 in JEST 2016.

• Admitted to the TIFR Astronomy and Astrophysics Integrated PhD program.