Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur
Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Technology- Kharagpur,
West Bengal, India - 721302.
(J C Ghosh and P C Ray Twin Science Block - New CORAL)
I work in theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology. My research primarily aims to understand the physical state and evolution of the Universe during its first billion years, a crucial epoch that marks the formation of the first stars, galaxies, and cosmic structures.
News Update
New paper submitted: 'Constraining the z ~1 neutral hydrogen (HI) distribution', corresponding author Minal Chhabra.
Selected for International Astronomical Union (IAU) Individual Membership.
New paper submitted 'Fuzzy Dark Matter Halo Mass Functions at Cosmic Dawn' (arXiv:2606.30739). Comments welcome!
New paper submitted "Probing the Epoch of Reionization by reconstructing the velocity contribution to the patchy kSZ signal from 21-cm maps", led by Jelte Bottema.
New paper accepted: 'POLAR-II: modeling star formation history of galaxies on the 21-cm signal from Epoch of Reionization'. The work was led by Qing-Bo Ma.
Moved to IIT Kharagpur, Department of Physics (Assistant Professor) from IISER Kolkata (Ramanujan Fellow).
Gave an invited talk 'Recent results from LOFAR' at 'SKIC Workshop 2026 on 21-cm Cosmology' at TIFR on 9th March 2026.
Participated in 'SKIC School 2026 on 21-cm Cosmology' at TIFR and gave lectures and conducted hands-on sessions on 'Parameter Inference from the 21-cm Signal Epoch of Reionization (EoR) & Cosmic Dawn', 5th March 2026.
Attended 'Asian-Pacific SKA Science meeting 2026' online and gave a talk on 'Revealing the State of the Early Intergalactic Medium through 21-cm Signal Analysis'.
Attended SKA-India conference at IISER Mohali from 14-18 Jan 2026. I talked about SKA and EoR ionized regions.