Research Experience:

• 09/2021 -- now: Postdoctoral Researcher at Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel.

  • Supervisor: Prof. Adi Zitrin

• 01/2016 -- 06/2021: Ph.D. in Cosmology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India.

  • Title: Singularities in Gravitational Lensing

  • Guide: Prof. Jasjeet Singh Bagla

Education:

• 01/2016 -- 07/2021: Ph.D. in Cosmology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India.

• 07/2013 -- 07/2015: M.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan, India.

• 07/2010 -- 07/2013: B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, Maharaja’s College, University of Rajasthan, India.

Awards and Fellowships:

• 10/2022 -- 09/2024: Kreitman fellowship awarded by Kreitman School of Advance Studies, BGU, Israel.

• 09/2021 -- 09/2022: Postdoctoral fellowship in BGU, Israel.

• V V Narlikar best Ph.D. thesis award 2022: Awarded in IAGRG-2022 meeting held in IISER Kolkata.

• 01/2018 -- 12/2020: Senior Research Fellow awarded by CSIR, India.

• 01/2016 -- 12/2017: Junior Research Fellow awarded by CSIR, India.

Talks (Invited):

• "Extremely magnified stars in cluster lenses", 17th January 2024, at Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

• "Extremely magnified stars in cluster lenses'', 13th July 2023 in Symposium 9: Gravitational lensing in the eyes of the JWST at EAS-2023, Krakow, Poland.

• (online) "Exotic Image Formation in Gravitational Lensing", in Weekly online meeting on cosmology, IIT Madras, India, in August 2021.

Talks (Contributed):

• "Extremely magnified stars in cluster lenses'', in ICGC-2023 at IIT Guwahati, India in December 2023.

• "Extremely magnified stars in cluster lenses", in IAUS381: Strong Lensing in the Era of Big Data held in Otranto, Italy, in June 2023.

• (Online) "Singularities in gravitational lensing'', presented PhD thesis for VV Narlikar best thesis award in the IAGRG-2022 meeting on 20th December 2022.

• "Exotic image formation in cluster lenses", in Cluster Physics From Space To Reveal Dark Matter: Current And Future Challenges meeting held at ISSI, Bern, Switzerland in July 2022.

• "Simulating caustic-crossing events", in Cluster Physics From Space To Reveal Dark Matter: Current And Future Challenges meeting held at ISSI, Bern, Switzerland in July 2022.

• "Caustic-Crossing Events in Cluster Lenses", in IPS-2022, held at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel in February 2022.

• (Online) "Exotic Image Formation in Gravitational Lensing", in Shivalik HEPCATS Meeting held at IISER Mohali in July 2020.

• "Exotic Image Formation in Gravitational Lensing", in the I-TMT Workshop held at ARIES, Nainital, India in October 2019.

• "Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves", in the ASI-2019 held at Christ University, Bengaluru, India in February 2019.