Probing the Role of Babcock-Leighton Mechanism in Solar Activity: Jazzing Up Cycle Predictions with Algebraic Dipole Moments

Source region of Coronal Mass Ejections Driven by Homologous Compact-flare Blowout Jets

uGMRT detects the first solar-type flare on a star young-fast rotaitng non-solar type star

Predicting Strong SEP Events Using Time Series Machine Learning Classifiers

Electrostatic Solitary Waves in the Earth’s Magnetosheath: MMS Observation

Solar dynamo: How far from the critical dynamo transition!

A Detailed Spectroscopic Radio Imaging of the Sun using MeerKAT: Opening a New Frontier in Solar Physics

Sun's Magnetic Flip: Exploring Cycle 25's Polar field  Reversal!

Should you use Elsässer variables to study Alfvénic fluctuations?

2.5D MHD Simulation of Formation and Evolution of Plasmoids in Coronal Current Sheet

How the Parametric Decay Instability Affects Coronal Type III Radio Bursts?

Studying the Spheromak Rotation in Data-constrained Coronal Mass Ejection Modeling with EUHFORIA and Assessing Its Effect on the Bz Prediction

Does the Solar Chromosphere Rotate Faster than the Solar Photosphere?

A New Colorful Perspective to Visualize Linear Polarization in the Solar Corona

Photospheric Lorentz Force Changes in Eruptive and Confined Solar Flares

Generation of fine structures in interplanetary type III radio bursts

SWASTi-CME: A physics-based model to study CME evolution and its interaction with Solar Wind

Rotation of a Stealth CME on 2012 October 5 Observed in the Inner Heliosphere

Fresh sunspots emerge in a perfect rhythm with the diminishing solar dipole moment

Exploring the impact of imaging cadence on inferring CME kinematics 

The behaviour of solar wind protons and alphas in the Stream Interaction Region in solar cycle 23 and 24

Anomalous Active Regions and their footprints on the Solar Cycle

SITCoM: An open-source tool to analyse dynamics in coronal images

Did Parker Solar Probe see the Fastest Solar Eruption to Date?

When Hot Meets Cold: Multi-Thermal Aspect in a 3D Coupled Tearing-Thermal Evolution in a Solar Current Sheet

The curious case of Sun’s polar field reversals

Tips to Avoid Space Weather Mis-predictions - Beware of CME Rotation and Interaction

Formation of an observed eruptive flux rope above the torus instability threshold through tether-cutting magnetic reconnection

DAGGER: Shielding humanity from solar storms using Artificial Intelligence

Magnetic Explosions at the Sun bear birthmarks, says recent study

On the Turbulence of near-Earth CME Plasma

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The Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), part of the Aditya-L1 mission, captured its first image using a spectroscopic channel for the emission line at 5303 Angstroms.

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by Aditya-L1 Payload Teams from Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Space Physics Laboratory (SPL), and U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), India

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by Dr. Anshu Kumari (Singh) 

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by Dr. Megha Anand, Dr. Ranadeep Sarkar, Dr. Ritesh Patel, Dr. Satabdwa Majumdar

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Mr. Kalpesh Ghag

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Ms. Suganya Sundaramurthy

Ms.  Shifana Koya

Mr. Saikat Majumder

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Satyam Agarwal for successfully defending his thesis titled “Numerical simulations of Solar Eruptive Events” at the Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) registered at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Gadhinagar.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Sahel Dey for recieving the Best Poster Award in the Solar and Space Plasma Physics group, Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP2024) held in Grand Swiss-Bel Hotel, Malacca, Malaysia during Nov. 3-8, 2024.

Congratulations to Dr. Shilpi Bhunia, who has successfully defended her thesis titled - “Radio Imaging Spectroscopy of Eruptions in the Solar Corona” at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Prateek Mayank for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled “Modeling the Evolution and Impact of Space Weather Drivers”, at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Pawan Kumar for joining as a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Immanuel Christopher Jebaraj, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, Finland, for receiving the Vincenzo Ferraro Prize for young scholars in space plasma physics.

Congratulations to Dr. Kartika Sangal for successfully defending her PhD thesis titled ”Study of waves and quasi periodic pulsations in the solar atmosphere”, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU), Varanasi

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Shirsh Lata Soni, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Climate and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, USA, for receiving the Outstanding Postdoc Fellow Award 2024.

Congratulations to Dr. Souvik Roy for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled “Modeling the impact of space weather on planetary space environments”, at the Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI), IISER Kolkata. 

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Maya Prabhakar for successfully defending her thesis at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore, and joined as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.

Congratulations to Dr. Anwesha Maharana for successfully defending her thesis titled - “Advanced CME models for improved geo-effectiveness predictions” at the KU Leuven, Belgium.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Anshu Kumari (Singh) on her appointment as a Reader at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.

Congratulations to Dr. Sumanth Rotti on successfully defending his thesis titled - “Novel Short-term Predictions of Solar Energetic Particle Events Using Machine Learning Time Series Classifiers ” at Georgia State University, Georgia, USA.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Balveer Singh has recently joined as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) under the UKRI fund at the Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. S V Manoj Varma on successfully defending his thesis titled - “The Solar Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope: Detector characterization and on-board processing for flare studies” at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Binal Dineshkumar Patel for being awarded the best oral presentation prize during the 10th Plasma Science Society of India-Plasma Scholar’s Colloquium (PSSI-PSC2024) held at IIT Delhi, India in July 2024.

Congratulations to Ms. Saraswathi Kalyani Subramanian from Indian Institute of Astrophysics, (IIA) Bangalore, for receiving the best poster award at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Systems 2024, held in Yokohama, Japan in June 2024.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Binal Dineshkumar Patel for successfully defending her thesis titled - “Source Region Characteristics of Coronal Mass Ejections and their Interplanetary Propagation” at the Udaipur Solar Observatory (USO), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL).

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Komal Choraghe for successfully defending her thesis titled - “The Magnetospheric Response To Different Near-Earth Space Weather Conditions” at the Department of Physics, University of Mumbai, Mumbai.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Rohit Sharma on his appointment as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

We extend our warmest congratulations to Dr. Prantika Bhowmik on her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Congratulations to Dr. Kantepalli Sasikumar Rajaon on his appointment as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore.

We extend our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Prateek Mayank from Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India, on receiving the Jack Eddy fellowship, NASA, 2024, USA.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Komal Choraghe for joining as a postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore.

We congratulate Dr. Dibyendu Sur for being featured in the Early Career Scientist Spotlight of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for showcasing his outstanding work.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Devojyoti Kansabanik, NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University, USA for receiving an honorable mention in the IAU PhD at-large Prize 2023 for his PhD thesis.

We extend our congratulations to Dr. Ritesh Patel, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, for a successful NASA ROSES-2023 proposal.

We extend our congratulations to Chaitanya Shishtla, doctoral candidate at University of Helsinki, on being chosen as an early career member of EGU, 2024.

We congratulate Kalpesh Pramod Ghag, from the Department of Physics, University of Mumbai, on receiving the NEWKIRK fellowship, NCRA, HAO, NASA.

Congratulations to Omkar Sadanand Dhamane on his selection as a research associate at the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Planetology (IAPS), INAF, Italy.

We extend our congratulations to Maya Prabhakar for joining as a research associate at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.

Congratulations to Dr. Pawan Kumar  on the successful defence of his PhD thesis titled “Under-standing and forecasting the solar cycle variability using the polar magnetic field" at Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi. 

Congratulations to Dr. Sneha Pandit for joining as a postdoctoral fellow under CEFIPRA grant at IUCAA, Pune, India.

We extend our congratulations Dr. Biswajit Ojha to joined as a postdoctoral researcher at the Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Congratulations to Dr. Sindhuja G for her felicitation during the celebration of 125th year of Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO) in recognition of her outstanding contributions in solar astrophysics research at KSO.

Congratulations to Dr. Dibyendu Sur was awarded the Best Poster Title Award at the New Year’s Poster Party at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, organized by the Sciences and Exploration Directorate in January 2024.

Congratulations to Mr. Prateek Mayank for receiving the Best Oral Presentation Award under the category of Solar and Planetary Sciences (PS3) in the National Space Science Symposium, February – March 2024 at Goa University.

Congratulations to Ms. Annu Bora for the Best Poster Presentation Award under the category of Solar and Space Weather–1 in the National Space Science Symposium, February – March 2024 at Goa University.

Congratulations to Ms. Suganya Sundaramurthy Best Poster Presentation Award under the category of Space Science & Society at Young Scientist Conference 2023 - (India International Science Festival 2023) January 2024 at THSTI, Haryana.

Congratulations to INDUS Member Ms. Puja Majee from NCRA who bagged the best poster award in the Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets & Astrobiology category. 

Congratulations to Dr. Vishal Upendran who won the K D Abhyankar best presentation of thesis award at the 42nd ASI meet, held at IISc Bengaluru during 31 Jan - 04 Feb, 2024.

Congratulations to Ms. Parvathy from IIA Bengaluru for winning Best PosterAward in the category of Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets & Astrobiology at the 42nd ASI meet.

Congratulations to Dr. Biswajit Mondal for honourable mention of the Justice Oak Award for 2023’s outstanding thesis in astronomy and for being a part of the CHANDRAYAN-2 team that won the ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award for ”Global elemental mapping of lunar surface by payloads on Chandrayaan-2.

INDUS member Dr. Sahel Dey who has successfully defended his thesis titled - “Insights into the genesis and dynamics of the solar spicule forest: aided by simulations and laboratory experiments” under the Joint Astronomy Programme (JAP), at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics & the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

INDUS member Dr. Satabdwa Majumder has recently joined as a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Space Weather Office (ASWO), Graz, Austria.

INDUS Member Dr. Bibhuti Kumar Jha has received the SPD Thomas Metcalf Travel Award for the year 2023.

We are delighted to extend our warmest congratulations to INDUS Member Dr. Arghyadeep Paul who has successfully defended his thesis titled - “Magnetic Reconnection in Heliospheric Plasma” at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore.

INDUS member Dr. Immanuel Christopher Jebaraj has been selected as the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Visiting Scientist for the year 2023-2024.

INDUS member Dr. Jayalekshmi G. L. has recently joined as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Planetology (IAPS), Rome, Italy.

INDUS member Dr. Atul Mohan was featured in the Early Career Scientist Spotlight at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for showcasing his outstanding work. Read more about this here. 

We are delighted to extend our warmest congratulations to INDUS member Dr. Devojyoti Kansabanik who has recently joined as a NASA Jack Eddy postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, USA.

We are delighted to extend our warmest congratulations to INDUS Member Dr. Sneh Pandit who has successfully defended her thesis titled - “A new look at Solar-Stellar Activity with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array” at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway.

INDUS Member Ms Preity Shukla Sahani has been selected in the Ph.D. program in physics at the University of Naples Federico ii in Naples, Italy.

We are delighted to extend our warmest congratulations to INDUS member Ms Yoshita Baruah from CESSI, IISER Kolkata who has been featured in Nature Spotlight.

INDUS member Ms Trunali Anil Shah has received the Best Student Poster Award in Solar and Terrestrial Sciences Section at AOGS 2023, Singapore.

INDUS Member Mr. Saikat Majumder was awarded the “Best Participant Prize” at the Workshop on Space Weather Science and Opportunities and the 2nd Indian Space Weather Conference at PRL Ahmedabad.

INDUS Member Dr Debesh Bhattacharjee was awarded of  receiving the UKRI funding for a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Glasgow.

INDUS member Dr Reetika Joshi, has been selected for the IAC Early career visitor program for the year 2024. We extend our heartiest congraultions and best wished to her. 

We are delighted to extend our warmest congratulations to INDUS member Dr. Joel Baby Abraham, a Ph.D. researcher at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory for successfully defending his thesis titled - ``Evolution of Solar Wind Electrons in the Inner Heliosphere''.

We are delighted to extend our warmest congratulations to INDUS member Dr. Devojyoti Kansabanik, a Ph.D. researcher at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), for successfully defending his thesis titled - ``Deciphering Radio Emission from Solar Coronal Mass''.

INDUS member Dr Ritesh Patel has been promoted to the position of Research Scientist at the Department of Solar and Heliospheric Physics of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder.

We are delighted to extend our warmest congratulations to INDUS member Dr. Shreya Bhattacharya, a Ph.D. researcher at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, for successfully defending her thesis titled - ``Diagnosing and Calibrating the Multi-Century Sunspot Number Series'', and earning a Doctorate in Science from Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.

INDUS member Mr. Dinesha Hegde, a NASA FINESST Fellow and a PhD researcher at the University of Alabama in Huntsville was awarded the SHINE Outstanding Student Poster Award - 2023 during the Solar and Heliospheric Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) Conference 2023 at Vermont, the US in August 2023· Read more about his work here.

INDUS member Ms. Sakshi Gupta, a Ph.D. researcher at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, was awarded the Best oral presentation prize during the 9th Plasma Scholars Colloquium (PSC-2023) held at IIT Kanpur, India in July 2023. Read more about it here.

INDUS member Mr. Devojyoti Kansabanik was awarded the URSI Young Scientist award in commission H (waves in plasma) at the 35th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium held at Sapporo, Japan. 

Our coordinator, Dr. Anshu Kumari, a Radio-Instrument Scientist and a NASA Postdoctoral Programme (NPP) fellow was featured in the  Early Career Scientist Spotlight at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for showcasing her outstanding work. [Link]

"These interactions remind me that science is not just about personal achievements but about fostering a culture of curiosity, learning, and innovation that extends beyond oneself. Looking back, my journey has been one of connecting the dots—between the practical and the theoretical, between the past and the future, and between personal growth and community impact. ..." Read More

"I also enjoy academic or research-related writing. The whole process of transforming nascent thoughts and ideas into full-fledged results clearly expressed through proper words and phrases is something that..." Read More

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"To investigate these mechanisms, I use in-situ measurements from several spacecraft that traverse the interplanetary medium. These include India’s Aditya L1 (AL1) mission, as well as ... " Read More

"In addition to these theoretical and modeling approaches, I also employ machine learning techniques to enhance the detection and analysis of CMEs. Traditional methods of CME detection in coronagraph images, which are used to observe the Sun’s outer atmosphere, can be time-consuming and may not always be accurate. To address this, ..." Read More

" I aim to improve the vector magnetic field forecasting of Earth-directed CMEs. So far, I have relied on empirical tools and remote sensing observations for forecasting their space weather impact. In the near future, ..."
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"As a Marie Curie PhD fellow, I am gaining extensive international experience and developing cross-cultural communication skills, which would be beneficial for a career in a globalised workforce, such as diplomacy or international relations, where I can significantly contribute to ideas of women in science and women’s empowerment"
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"One of the most thrilling aspects of my work is the ability to connect seemingly disparate ideas to forge innovative solutions. The challenge of tackling new and complex problems is another facet of my work that I find immensely rewarding. It’s in these moments of uncertainty and intellectual discomfort that I feel my problem-solving skills are truly tested and honed." Read More

"Ever since my childhood, I’ve been captivated by the sky, whether it’s the brilliance of the daytime heavens or the mysterious allure of the night. I’ve always harboured my own musings about the celestial realm. These observations fuelled my curiosity and propelled me toward exploring astronomy through literature. " Read More

"The nature of the research allows anyone to explore new possibilities on a daily basis, which is appealing to me. Each day presents new challenges that encourage deeper thinking and exploration. Delving into every aspect of our work and comprehending it brings me satisfaction." Read More

"The extension of myresearch explores the crucial couplings between the solar wind and our planet. I am studying how solar emissions impact Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere, contributing to the development of better space weather prediction models." Read More

"Conveying the same science to different people from different perspectives, be it by speech or by jotting it down, makes me think about my work from a different point of view. And I get paid for what I like to do". Read More

"When I first started, I did not have a work-life balance and did not give it as much importance as I should have. Therefore, I burned out quickly. While having a work-life balance is essential, it is also unique to each of us". Read More

"I explore the physical origin of the magnetic nature of the Sun. A dynamo action is said to set in when the energy stored in turbulent plasma motions within the Sun’s convective layer gets converted into magnetic energy, thus turning the star into a gigantic magnet of variable strength and complexity". Read More

"Don’t stress too much about the future or your career path. Enjoy the journey and the learning process.." Read More

"I think a lot of research is driven by creativity, and this creative process is built over time through reading papers and trying out your own ideas". Read More

"Working on something that brings new issues/challenges to learning something irrespective of the pace constantly, keeps me going". Read More

" I am a computational astrophysicist. The research problems that I focus widely are to understand solar magnetic fields and to understand the role of radiation in atmospheric heating..." Read More

"The major one is about a question that I addressed, which is why the solar cycle is not regular and why there are considerable variations in its amplitude, for which the extreme example is the Maunder minimum. Using the kinematic dynamo model and by including fluctuations in the dynamo process inspired by observations, I have modeled..." Read More

I find starting a new project to be incredibly exciting. I love delving into something new, understanding it, learning new techniques, and analyzing the results. Despite the time it takes, the experiences gained and the ability to connect results with previous findings or generate new ideas for future projects bring me immense motivation and joy. Read More