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Rajeev Kumar Jain
Rajeev Kumar Jain
Associate ProfessorVisiting Associate, ICTP, ItalyAssociate Editor, Phys. Rev. D (APS)
Department of PhysicsIndian Institute of ScienceBangalore 560012INDIA
Email: rkjain[AT]iisc.ac.inPhone: 080 2293 3618Office: E0-08
Email: rkjain[AT]iisc.ac.inPhone: 080 2293 3618Office: E0-08
Academic History
Academic History
- Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2023 -- present
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2017 - 2023
- Postdoctoral fellow, CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, 2012 - 2016
- Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2009 - 2012
- PhD (Physics), Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India, 2009
- M.Sc (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, 2003
- B.Sc Hons. (Physics), Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India, 2001
Awards & Honours
Awards & Honours
- Associate Editor, Phys. Rev. D (American Physical Society, USA)
- Axis Bank travel grant to attend COSMO'24 in Kyoto, Japan, 2024
- IISc Research Award, 2024
- Axis Bank travel grant to attend COSMO'23 in Madrid, Spain, 2023
- ICTP Associateship Award, 2023
- Indo-French collaborative research grant (co-PI) from CEFIPRA, January 2023
- Matrics grant (PI) from SERB, DST, India, December 2022
- NSM HPC research grant (co-PI) from DST, India and SERC, IISc, March 2021
- Infosys Young Investigator Award, Infosys Foundation, Bangalore, 2019
- IoE travel grant to attend COSMO'19 in Aachen, Germany, 2019
- Core research grant (co-PI), SERB, DST, India, 2019
- Start-up seed research grant, IISc, Bangalore, 2017
- Honourable mention essay, Gravity Research Foundation Awards for Essays on Gravitation, 2016
- Individual postdoctoral fellowship, Danish Council for Independent Research in Natural Sciences, Denmark, 2013 - 2014
- Travel fellowship, Fondation Ernst & Lucie Schmidheiny, University of Geneva, 2010
- Research fellowship, Indo-Swiss Joint Research Programme, SNSF Switzerland and DST, India, 2009 - 2010
- Travel fellowship, ICTP, Italy, 2008
Membership & Associateship
Membership & Associateship
- Member, Cosmology working group, LISA consortium (a future space based gravitational wave observatory of ESA & NASA)
- Member, CMB Bharat consortium (a future space Indian mission to measure the CMB anisotropies and spectral distortions)
- Individual member, International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- Visiting associateship, IUCAA, Pune (2018 - 2021, 2021 - 2024, 2024 - 2027)
- Editorial board member, Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
- Life member, Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG), IUCAA Pune
- Life member, Astronomical Society of India (ASI)
- Associate fellow, CERN, Geneva (2009 - 2012)
Recent Conferences attended
Recent Conferences attended
- Less Travelled Path of Dark Matter: Axions and Primordial Black Holes, ICTS Bangalore, India, 2020
- Physics of the Early Universe – An Online Precursor, ICTS Bangalore, India, 2020
- 8th LISA Cosmology Working Group Workshop (online), APC Paris, 2020
- International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC) 2019, IISER Mohali, India, 2019
- COSMO19, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 2019
- Cosmology - The Next Decade, ICTS, Bangalore, India, 2019
- Neighbourhood Astronomy Meeting, IIA Bangalore, 2018
- Joint Astro and Particle Physics meet, IISER, Pune, 2018
- Joint CMB meeting “Assessing the prospects for frontier CMB space experiments from India”, ISRO, Bangalore, 2018
- International Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology, IISER, Bhopal, 2017
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