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I am Harsh Kumar, a post-doctoral fellow at CFA/Harvard College Observatory in Harvard University.
Born in 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 the University of Delhi with a B.Sc Physics (Hons.) degree. I spent two more years in Delhi and did my master's at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics at the North Campus of Delhi University. I moved to the city of dreams, Mumbai, in December 2017 to pursue my PhD at IIT Bombay with Prof. Varun Bhalerao. After completing my PhD, I joined as a postdoc at Harvard University. Happily enjoying life in Boston since then.
Here at Harvard University, I work on various aspects of Astrophysics. My primary interests revolve around the study of transients, including the hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae, tidal disruption events, and the optical counterpart of Gravitational Waves. In the past, I have worked on automating the GROWTH-India Telescope, which is India's first fully robotic telescope, the study of Gamma-ray bursts afterglows, and other fast-decaying transients in the optical regime. I was part of the core team that handled the nightly observations and development of GROWTH-India operations.
Image: GROWTH-India telescope at Hanle, ladakh
Image Credit: Shubham Shrivastav
Me enjoying breeze at Marine drive, Mumbai.
Image credits: Sanoj Parshad Dimri.
During my stay in Jubilee Hall - 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 and Virat Kohli play --- the best-ever players in their respective 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.
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