Research Interests

• Suprathermal particles in the interplanetary medium

• Solar Energetic Particles

• Magnetospheric particle environment

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Physics: Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India (Degree conferred by Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, India) [July 2019  - July 2024]

• M.Sc. (Physics): Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India [July 2017 - June 2019]

• B.Sc. (Physics Hons.): The University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, India [July 2014 - June 2017]

• Higher Secondary (XII): Barabelun Mohini Mohan Vidyamandir, Barabelun, Bardhaman, India [2014, West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education] (Topper in Bhatar Block)

• Secondary (X): Barabelun Mohini Mohan Vidyamandir, Barabelun, Bardhaman, India [2012, West Bengal Board of Secondary Education]

Research Publications

Published in Journals

• Goyal, S. K., Tiwari, N. K., Patel, A. R., Shanmugam, M., Vadawale, S. V., Chakrabarty, D., Sebastian, J., Dalal, B. et al. ''Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment on Board Aditya–L1: The Supra-Thermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer'', Solar Physics 300, no. 3 (2025): 35 (doi: 10.1007/s11207-025-02441-z).

• Shaver, SR., Smith, AR., Babu, SS., Baruah, Y., Bauer, M., Chaturmutha, V., Chen, H., Dalal, B., and others., "Exploring observational heliophysics across all scales: Reflections and insights from the 2023 NASA Heliophysics Summer School", Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, 2024 (doi: 10.1029/2023CN000217)

• Dalal, B., Chakrabarty, D., Srivastava, N., Sarkar, A., ''Suprathermal population associated with stream interaction regions observed by STEREO-A: New insights", ApJ, 2023 (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad08c6)

• Dalal, B., Chakrabarty, D., Srivastava, N., “Differential behaviors of suprathermal 4He and Fe populations in the interplanetary medium during solar cycle 24”, ApJ, 2022 (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac88d8)

Published in Newsletters

• Sebastian, J., Kumar, A., Chakrabarty, D., Kumar, P., Goyal, S. K., Vadawale, S. V., Shanmugam, M., Hasan, M., Sarkar, A., Dalal, B. et al. ''Comparison of Solar Wind flux and bulk parameters obtained from Aditya L1-ASPEX with Wind-3D-PPESA-L and ACE-EPAMLEMS120'', GSICS Newsletter, Winter 2025 issue (doi: 10.25923/gmzc-9a28)

Published in arXiv

• Chakrabarty, D., Dalal B., Vadawale, S. et al.,''Energetic (< 2 MeV) Ion Environment of the Magnetosphere as measured by ASPEX-STEPS on board Aditya-L1 during its earth-bound phase'', 2025 (arXiv doi: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21919) [Under review, Revision submitted in ApJ]

• Dalal, B., Chakrabarty, D., Cohen, C. M. S., Srivastava, N., ''Investigation on upstream ion events from L1 point observation: New Insights'', 2024 (arXiv doi: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13243) 

• Sebastian, J., Dalal, B., Gupta, A., et al. "One Year of ASPEX-STEPS Operation: Characteristic Features, Observations and Science Potential" (arXiv doi: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18117) [Under review, JOAA]

• Kumar, A., Parashar, S., Kumar, P., Chakrabarty, D., Bapat, B., Sarkar, A., Shah, M., Adalja, H., Patel, A. R., Adhyaru, P. R., Shanmugam, M., Banerjee, S. B., Subramaniam, K., P., Ladiya, T., Sebastian, J., Dalal, B., et al. "One year of ASPEX-SWIS operation -- Characteristic features, observations and science potential" (arXiv doi: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17523)  [Under review, JOAA]

Awards/Achievements/Grants

• Heliophysics Summer School-2023: Got an opportunity to attend the Heliophysics Summer School - 2023 in both online (July 17 - 21, 2023) and in-person (August 7 - 11, 2023) modes. The in-person mode was held in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

• Best Poster Award: Dalal. B., Chakrabarty, D., Srivastava, N., “Comparison of suprathermal particles between the last two solar cycles: Insights”, presented in National Space Science Symposium, 2022 (NSSS-2022)

• INSPIRE Scholarship (2014 - 2019)

• Swami Vivekananda Merit-cum Means Scholarship (2012-2014)

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