Associate Professor
Research interests: Theoretical cosmology, Inflation and alternatives, Cosmic Microwave Background, Primordial magnetic fields, Non-gaussianities, Dark matter, Effective field theory of gravity, Modified gravity, Dark energy
Contact: rkjain[AT]iisc.ac.in
Integrated PhD student (2017)
Research interest: Inflation and alternatives, Non-Gaussianity, Primordial magnetic fields, Cosmological soft theorems, Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
Contact: jishnup[AT]iisc.ac.in
Integrated PhD student (2018)
[jointly with Prof. Sudhir K. Vempati, CHEP, IISc]
Research interests: Dark matter detection, Early Universe cosmology
Contact: brijeshk[AT]iisc.ac.in
PhD student (JAP, 2019)
Research interests: Dark energy, Cosmological Tensions, Modified gravity, Cosmological data analysis
Contact: yashitiwari[AT]iisc.ac.in
PhD student (2021)
[jointly with Prof. Ranjan Laha, CHEP, IISc]
PhD student (JAP, 2024)
Research interests: Early universe cosmology, primordial black holes, data analysis
Contact: swetamalik[AT]iisc.ac.in
PhD student (JAP, 2024)
Research interests: Early universe cosmology, Primordial non-Gaussianities, cosmological collider physics
Contact: abirghosh[AT]iisc.ac.in
CEFIPRA postdoctoral fellow (2025)
Research interests: Quantum field theory in curved spacetime, Early universe cosmology, Cosmological correlators, One-loop corrections
Contact: haridevsr[AT]iisc.ac.in
National postdoctoral fellow (2024)
Research interests: Inflation, Bouncing cosmology, Primordial non-Gaussianities, Cosmological perturbation theory
Contact:
Inspire faculty fellow
Basundhara Ghosh (2021 - 2025) [Current position: Faculty at Azim Premji university, Bangalore]
Postdoctoral fellows
Ashu Kushwaha (2024 - 2025) [Current position: JSPS postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Science, Tokyo, Japan]
Richa Arya (2022 - 2023) [Current position: Faculty at MNNIT, Allahabad]
Debika Chowdhury (2023 - 2024) [Current position: Inspire faculty at IIA, Bangalore]
PhD students
Nilanjandev Bhaumik (2017 - 2023) [Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at ICTP-AP, Beijing, China]
PH 250A and 250B Students
Jishnu Sai P. (2018 - 2019), thesis title: Cosmological consistency relations and δN formalism
Brijesh Kanodia (2019 - 2020) (Joint supervision with Prof. Sudhir K Vempati, CHEP, IISc), thesis title: Cosmology in an expanding universe
Master Students
Abhishek Kumar Mehta (2018), thesis title: Boson stars in modified gravity
Arav B. J. (2020 - 2021), thesis title: Evolution of primordial tensor perturbations during inflation
Undergraduate Students
Aviman Satpathy (2018), thesis title: Power spectrum calculations for scalar and tensor quantum fluctuations in slow roll inflation
Arav B. J. (2020, nominal supervisor), thesis title: Stability of spherical stellar systems
Adepu Preetham Kumar (2020 - 2021), thesis title: Evolution of primordial tensor perturbations in generalised Horndeski theories
Souradeep Das (2023-2024), thesis title: Primordial Non-Gaussianities from Inflation and Associated Soft Theorems
Summer Students
Budhaditya Bhattacharjee (Int-Ph.D, IISc), 2018
Jishnu Sai P. (Int-Ph.D, IISc), 2018
Sandeep Kumar S. (M.Sc, Christ University), 2018
Srishty Aggarwal (Int-Ph.D, IISc), 2019
Pingal Pratyush Nath (Int-Ph.D, IISc), 2019
Abhishek Dubey (Int-Ph.D, IISc), 2019
Rohan Rajgopalan Iyer (BS-MS, IIT Madras), 2019
Adepu Preetham Kumar (UG, IISc), 2020
Aditya Srivatsa (Int-Ph.D, IISc), 2024
Satyam Panchal (Int-Ph.D, IISc), 2024