About ME
I am Harsh Kumar, a post-doctoral fellow at CFA/Harvard College Observatory in Harvard University.
Born at the beautiful place Bhakli, located in southern Haryana. After getting my primary education at R.K.D Sr. Sec school in my native place, I moved to New Delhi for my higher education and graduated from Sri Venkateswara College of Delhi University with a B.Sc Physics (Hons.) degree. I spent two more years in Delhi and did my master's at the Department of Physics at the North Campus of Delhi University. I moved to the city of dreams, Mumbai, in Dec 2017 to pursue my PhD at IIT Bombay with Prof. Varun Bhalerao. After completion of PhD, I have joined as a post doc at Harvard University. Happily enjoying life in Boston since then. You can find my CV here.
Here at Harvard University, I work on various aspects of Astrophysics. My primary interests revolve around the study of transients, including the optical counterpart of Gravitational Waves, the study of Gamma-ray bursts afterglows and other fast-decaying transients in the optical regime. In the past, I have worked on automating the GROWTH-India Telescope, which is India's first fully robotic telescope. I was part of the core team that handled the nightly observations of GROWTH-India.
During my stay in Jubilee Hall hostel - my hostel while I was pursuing my master's, I fell in love with playing Badminton. After moving to IIT Bombay, if there was one habit that did not change was playing badminton regularly. I do love watching Lionel Messi play --- the best-ever player in any sports history for me. Sitting on Marine Drive Bombay for the full night and enjoying the relaxing breeze can fix any problem for me. I just love that feeling.