Teaching, Project supervision & INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
University Teaching and Pedagogic Team Activities:
2023-now: Engagement in the Faculty boards, Organization of national-level Engineering entrance exams (in-person and online), and interviews at UCLy,
Lyon University, France
2022-now: Designed modules, developed and Offered courses, and experience in setting up exam papers and conducting exams for Graduate and Master
students. Coursework- Physics course for engineering and Graduate students (CM/TD- 700 hrs- Astronomy, Mechanics, Fluid mechanics,
Thermodynamics, Optics, Electricity, Metrology, Oscillations, and waves) at UCLy, Lyon University, France
2019-2021: Designed modules, developed and Offered courses, and experience in setting up exam papers and conducting exams for Graduates, engineering
disciplines and Master students. Coursework- Scientific and technical English, article & report writing, and interpretation of statistical data and
graphical analysis (CM/TD- 665 hrs- in class and virtual mode) at UCBL1, Lyon University, France
2018: Offered Course work for students in the International Franco-Indian school on low-frequency radio properties of galaxies and clusters, and Organized
research projects for the International Indo-French School on ‘From Reionization to Large scale Structures in the Universe’- IUCAA, Pune, India
(21hrs)
2016-now: Member of pedagogical team of the University of Lyon, France to support student success at 1st year Bachelor level. Strong involvement in the
organization of Bachelor's degree programs, in particular through teaching, orientation, and counseling of students to improve the quality of learning &
student success.
2016-2017: University pedagogic team member to help 1st year Bachelor students with difficulty (44hrs)- Courses on general physics, electricity,
electromagnetism, optics, Classical Mechanics, English
2015-2016: Offered Course (TD/TP- 21hrs) on Astrophysics at Master/Doctorate level in Internationale Indo-French School on Optical spectroscopy organized at
IUCAA, India
2014-2015: Offered Course (TD/TP- 10hrs), Physics, Lycee Chabrières, Oullins, France
2012-now: Participation in department meetings, presentation of the laboratory activities and research to project students from UCBL, Lyon University
2010-now: Experience in course management tasks, knowledge in assessments, examinations, and competition jury member for Master and Licence-level degree
course
2010-now: Member of the jury for scientific projects evaluation at Bachelor and Master level at UCBL Lyon 1 University France
2010-2011: Setting up and Preparation of examinations, correction of exam papers, Offered Courses (TD/TP- 100hrs, A.T.E.R.) on general physics, electricity,
electromagnetism, Optics, Thermodynamics, Mechanics, and Astrophysics, Bachelor level at University Claude Bernard Lyon1 (UCBL 1), France
2007-now: Offered regular short-term research projects to students to encourage their interest in a research career
2006: Organization of Astrophysics night sky Observation for Bachelor level students
Training Programs organized for PhD/postdoc and graduate students to help their careers:
2023: Training Program and tutorial session at CEFIPRA Franco-Indian school on ‘SKA/MSE and multiwavelength synergies‘ - IIA, Bangalore, 9-13th Jan
2023, India
2022: International IAU WiA virtual Training program-2 on ‘Essential skills in Astronomy and Python’, Jan 2022
2021: International IAU WiA virtual Training program-1 on ‘Essential skills in Astronomy and Python’, Nov 2021
2021: Session on The Gender Gap project: results and recommendations at 4th Franco-Indian CEFIPRA Astronomy School Meeting (IFCAM) on ‘Galactic
and Extragalactic science in MSE/SKA pathfinders era’, March 2021, Virtual conference IIA- India and UCBL-1, Lyon, France
2018: Training Program and tutorial session at CEFIPRA Franco-Indian school on 'From reionization to large scale structure -a multiwavelength approach' -
IUCAA, Pune, India, 11th-17th February 2018- https://ifcpar2017-cgl.sciencesconf.org/
2016: Training Program and tutorial session at 2nd Indo-French Astronomy School for Modeling and Simulations to support observational results, July 11-16,
2016, CRAL, Lyon, France
2015: Training Program and tutorial session at 1st Indo-French Astronomy School for Optical Spectroscopy, November 23-28, 2015, IUCAA, Pune, India.
Supervision of research projects:
22 in total ( 5 Postdoc level, 5- Ph.D. level, 4- Master level, 5- Graduate level, 3- College level)
International Exchange Programs & Memorandum of Understanding (MOU):
2022-2024: Led 1 bilateral student/researcher exchange program between the University of Montpellier, France, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India.
2015-2018: CRAL-University Claude Bernard Lyon and IUCAA scientific exchange program on ‘Radio properties of clusters and lenses’ under the funding of Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research-International Centre supported by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India and the Ministry for Europe & Foreign Affairs, Government of France. M. Pommier led the collaboration between the French and Indian partners. The project was graded ‘Excellent’ by the funding agency.
2013: led 2 bilateral student/researcher exchange programs between the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India since 2013. Several exchange visits for researchers/students have been organized under this program. For details please refer following link https://cral.univ-lyon1.fr/spip.php?article134.