Rajat Saxena

Hi, I am Rajat Saxena (This website is no longer updated)

Welcome to my portfolio!

I am a graduate student at LMU, Munich and an intern at the Planet Formation and Protoplanetary Disks Group, University Observatory, Munich. This website is dedicated to my research, study and outreach endeavours.

Scroll down to learn more about my previous education and the conferences/workshops I have participated in.

The "Research" page contains information about my projects and publications. Additionally, my Outreach activities are summarised under the page "Outreach".

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Education

Research Projects

Details can be found here.

Intern @ Universitäts-Sternwarte München (March 2025 - Present)
Bachelor Thesis @ Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) Pune (July 2023 - May 2024)
Summer Project Student @ Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) (Jun 2023 - Jul 2023)
Project Student @ National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA - TIFR) (September 2022 - July 2023)

Outreach and Teaching

Outreach Intern at LIGO-India Education and Public Outreach (LI-EPO), IUCAA (January 2023 – July 2024)
Teaching Assistant for Classes 11th and 12th at Quest Classes, Pune, India (August 2024 – October 2024)
Volunteer at Science Popularization Center (SciPop), IUCAA (2022 – May 2024)
Co-founder at IDSS Space Society, Pune University (October 2021 – July 2023)

Conferences

Oral Presentations

30th Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 22 – 26 April 2024.
National Student Symposium on Physics, Indian Association of Physics Teachers, 27 – 29 October 2023.
Baltic Applied Astroinformatics and Space Data Processing, organized by Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, 21 September 2023.
One Day National Symposium on Advancements in Various Fields of Physics, organized by the Association of Indian Physicists, 3 Sept 2023.

Poster Presentations

Symposium on Magnetism and Spintronics, organized by IIT-Bombay and NISER-Bhubaneswar, 18 – 19 July 2024
National Space Science Symposium, organized by ISRO, Goa University, NCPOR, NIO, 26 Feb – 1 March 2024.
16th Frontiers in Physics, Fergusson College, 11 April 2023.
29th National Raman Memorial Conference, Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 17 March 2023. Received an "Encouragement Award" for being the youngest speaker at the conference.

Attented as a Participant

VLT, Supernovae, Bruno @65 & H₀ @, European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching, 7 - 11 April 2025.

Workshops

National Student Seminar on Fundamental Physics, MIT-WPU, 27 & 28 September, 2024.
Molecular Dynamics Hands-on Training, Association of Indian Physicists, 22 & 23 June, 2024 (online).
Summer School on Theoretical (Astro) Physics, St. Xavier’s College & IUCAA, 3 – 8 June, 2024.
Course on Nuclear Experiments, HBCSE-TIFR, 18 – 22 March 2024
Workshop on Data Science in Astronomy, IUCAA, 12 - 14 December 2023.
Astronomy Data Analysis in Python, MANUU and IUCAA, 5 - 8 September 2023.
Summer Lectures on Particle and Condensed Matter Physics, University of Tennessee (online).
Multidisciplinary Approach to Understand the Mysteries of our Universe, NIT-Rourkela (online).
Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop, LIGO Collaboration (online).
Ground Station Workshop, IIT Bombay, 4 February 2023.
Numerical Methods in Python, IIEST - Shibpur (online)
Citizen Science Lectures on Radio Astronomy, NCRA-TIFR, June-September 2022.

Professional Memberships

Student member of the "German Physical Association", 2025 - Present.
Student member of the "Indian Physics Association", 2024 - Present.