Our group is interested in a broad range of topics in the early universe cosmology, focussing primarily on the physics of inflation, their imprints on the cosmic microwave background radiation, formation of primordial black holes as dark matterand their resulting observational imprints such as secondary gravitational waves, generation of primordial magnetic fields during inflation and associated non-Gaussianities, cosmological imprints of gauge/spectator fields during inflation, axion field dynamics, aspects of dark matter and relativistic effects in large scale structure.
Research interests
Theoretical cosmology, Inflation and alternatives, Physics of the early universe
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Anomalies in the CMB
Primordial black holes and secondary gravitational waves
Primordial magnetic fields and their observable imprints
Primordial non-gaussianities, Cosmological imprints of dynamical gauge fields
Dark matter, Axion field dynamics and cosmological implications
Effective field theory of gravity
Modified gravity, Dark energy
Research highlights
Cross-correlations of graviton with dynamical gauge fields
I am not taking any students (from outside IISc) for summer/winter projects or for a Master's thesis.
Contact
Department of PhysicsIndian Institute of ScienceC. V. Raman RoadBangalore 560012IndiaPhone: 080 2293 3618Office: E0-08 (new annexe building) Email: rkjain[AT]iisc.ac.in