Achievements
2023 Young Scientist Award (YSA-2022)
2019 Project Erasmus+ from European Commission: higher education mobility International Credit Mobility.
2015 Qualified for the CSIR-UGC test for junior research fellowship and eligibility for lecturer-ship (NET).
2015 Qualified for the all-India Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST), for admission to premier research institutes in India (71 ranks all over India).
2015 Qualified the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), for admission to premier research institutes in India.
2013 Secured 2 position in the second year of B.Sc. Physics (Hons.).
Teaching/Supervising
2024 Mentor in Supernovae Foundation (a program designed to inspire and support young women).
2024 Co-supervised Joanna Kocierz (B.Sc. student) for an ESO proposal on ``Towards KBC3R2 on NTT: KiDS-Bright Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation''.
2022-2024 Co-supervising Anjitha John William (PhD student) on a project ``Enhancing Kilo-Degree Survey bright galaxy sample photometric redshifts with deep learning''.
2024 Supervising Sandhya Vijapurkar on ``Correlation between host galaxy and SMBH parameters''.
2021-2022 Co-supervised Samantha Rath (M.Sc. student) on “Enhancement of Galaxy Counts in Quasar Environment.”
2019 Mentor at ATSOA to M.Sc. students in spectroscopic reduction using IRAF.
2019 Co-supervised Paarmita Pandey (B.Sc. Student) for a project on “Two-point correlation function”.
2018 Mentor at ATSOA to M.Sc. students in spectroscopic reduction using IRAF.
2018 Tutor-ship for a “cosmology course” at ARIES.
2017 Mentor at ATSOA to M.Sc. students in spectroscopic reduction using IRAF.
2017 Tutor-ship for a “cosmology course” at ARIES.
Observations
Towards KBC3R2 on NTT: KiDS-Bright Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation by New Technology Telescope (NTT), 2025
Gravitationally lensed candidate's spectroscopic confirmation
DOT-2021-C1-P17 Spectroscopic confirmation of 11 new gravitational lens systems candidates with the 3.6m DOT, (PI)
DOT-2021-C1-P12 Spectroscopic identification of 12 new multiply imaged quasar candidates with AD-FOSC @ 3.6m DOT, (Co-PI)
DOT-2021-C1-P11 Analysis of the newly discovered gravitational lens system J165105-041723 using AD-FOSC @ 3.6m DOT, (Co-PI)
DOT-2021-C1-P33 Characterizing 10 new gravitational lens systems with 3.6m DOT (Co-PI)
DOT-2020-C2-P50 Spectroscopic confirmation of 15 new gravitational lens systems candidates with the 3.6m DOT, (PI)
DOT-2020-C2-P49 Confirmation of 11 probable Gravitational lens system candidates using AD-FOSC @ 3.6m DOT, (Co-PI)
DOT-2020-C2-P59 Optical direct imaging of 15 new Gaia gravitational lens systems and 21 candidates with the 3.6m DOT, (Co-PI)
DOT-2020-C2-P54 In a search for the deflectors of 15 newly identified gravitational lens systems with AD-FOSC @ 3.6m DOT, (Co-PI)
Discovery of quasar pairs
DOT-2021-C1-P16
January-April HCT cycle-2021,
January-April HCT cycle-2019,
September-December HCT cycle-2018,
May-August HCT cycle-2018,
January-April HCT cycle-2018,
Photometric observations of AGN using the 1.3-m Devasthal fast optical telescope (DFOT) 2022
Others
Reviewer for The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Member of LSST Science Collaboration
Infrastructural member of KiDS collaboration