Research Publications

[10]  Trinesh Sana, S. K. Mishra “Electrostatic Detachment of Dust from the Lunar Surface: Microscopic Fluctuations could be the key” in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 668, 119544 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119544 

[9] Trinesh Sana, S. K. Mishra “Revisiting Lunar Dust Charging And Dynamics” in Physics of Plasmas, 31, 102901 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0225693  

[8]  Trinesh Sana, S. K. Mishra “Possibility of inverse sheath in the lunar nightside due to secondary electron emission” in Fundamental Plasma Physics, 10 (2024) 100052, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fpp.2024.100052  

[7]  Trinesh Sana, S. K. Mishra “Velocity Distribution of Photoelectrons over Sunlit Moon” in ICARUS, 412 (2024): 115996, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.115996  

[6]  Trinesh Sana, S. K. Mishra “Plasma Sheath Around Chandrayaan 3 Landing Site: A Case Study” in The Planetary Science Journal, 4.9 (2023): 1-12, https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/acf1a1  

[5]  Trinesh Sana, S. K. Mishra “Electrostatic charging of crater’s surface over sunlit Moon” in a special issue of the Plasma Physics Reports, 49 (2023): 97-104 https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X22600943   

[4]  Trinesh Sana, S. K. Mishra “Plasma Sheath Around Sunlit Moon: Monotonic & non-monotonic structures”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520.1 (2023): 233-246 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad155  

[3]  S. K. Mishra, and Trinesh Sana “Mitigating massive triboelectric charging of drill in shadowed region of Moon” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512.4 (2022): 4730-4735, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac369  

[2]  S. K. Mishra, and Trinesh Sana “Distribution of charge on floating dust particles over sunlit locations on Moon” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508.3 (2021): 4332-4341, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2862  

[1] J. P. Pabari, and Trinesh Sana “Dependence of Martian Schumann resonance on the shape of dust devil and its implications” Current Science, 121.6 (2021): 769-774, https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v121/i6/769-774  

Awards/Grants

[2024] LPI Career Development Award for outstanding first-author abstract submission to the 55th Lunar Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America, on March 11–15, 2024. 

[2024] International Travel Grant from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, to attend the 55th Lunar Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America, on March 11–15, 2024. 

[2023] The Best Oral Presentation Award For Oral presentation, Title: “Electrical Plasma Environment Around Chandrayaan 3 Landing Site” in the “9th Plasma Scholar Colloquium (PSC-2023)” organised by Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) and Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur held at IIT Kanpur during 20-21 July 2023. 

[2023] International Travel Grant from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India to attend 4th Dust, Atmosphere, and Plasma Environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP-2023) workshop, hosted by the SSERVI-IMPACT team at the University of Colorado, CO, USA, June 05-06, 2023.  

[2022] Early Career Research Award 2022, For Oral presentation, Title: “Lunar Photoelectron Sheath and possibility of Dust Levitation” in 3rd Indian Planetary Sciences Conferences, 2022 (IPSC2022) in PRL, Organized by Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. 

[2021] Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST2021) in Physics 

[2020] Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE2020) in Physics 

[2020] Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST2020) in Physics 

Conferences Attended

[16] Poster presentation on “Electrostatic Lunar Dust Detachment and Dynamics” in the 2025 NASA Exploration Science Forum, (NESF2025) hosted by NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), July 22-24, 2025 (Virtual Attendance) 

[15] Poster presentation on “Effect of Solar Activity on The Lunar Plasma Environment” in the 43rd meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI), was held between 15-19 February 2025, and was hosted by National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha

[14] Oral presentation on “Lunar PSRs: Electric breakdown and its implications” in International conference on Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorites: Messenger from Space (MetMeSS), hosted by Indian Planetary Science Association, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, November 20-22, 2024 

[13] Poster presentation on “Dust Charging Within Lunar Photoelectron Sheath” in the 55th Lunar Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas, United States of America, on March 11–15, 2024 

[12] Poster presentation on “Probing The Lunar Photoelectrons” in National Space Science Symposium (NSSS 2024), hosted by ISRO and Goa University, February 26 - March 01, 2024 

[11] Oral presentation on “Electrostatic Charging near the Lunar Polar Region” in International Conference on Planets, Exoplanets and Habitability (ICPEH 2024), hosted by Indian Planetary Science Association, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, February 05-09, 2024 

[10] Oral presentation on “Electrical Plasma Environment Around Chandrayaan 3 Landing Site” in 9th PSSI - Plasma Scholars’ Colloquium, hosted by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, July 20-21, 2023. 

[9] Poster presentation on “Photoemission From Lunar Surface” in the 2023 NASA Exploration Science Forum, (NESF2023) hosted by NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), July 17-20, 2023 (Virtual Attendance) 

[8] Oral presentation on “Non-Monotonic Potential Structures Within Lunar Photoelectron Sheath” in 4th Dust, Atmosphere, and Plasma Environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP-2023) workshop, hosted by the SSERVI-IMPACT team at the University of Colorado, CO, USA, June 05-06, 2023 

[7] Poster presentation on “Complex Potential Structures Around Sunlit Moon” in 4th Indian Planetary Sciences Conferences, (IPSC2023) in PRL, Organized by Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, March 22-24, 2023 

[6] Poster presentation on “Plasma Environment within Lunar PSRs” in PhD Research Showcase, Organized by Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, January 27, 2023. 

[5] Poster presentation on “Lunar dusty plasma environment: Challenges for upcoming missions” in The 37th National Symposium on Plasma Science & Technology (Plasma-2022) at IIT Jodhpur, during 12-14 December 2022 

[4] Contributed oral talk on “Complex electrostatic structures within craters over sunlit Moon” in 9th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas ICPDP 2022, Moscow, Russia, May 23-27, 2022 (Virtual Attendance) 

[3] Poster presentation on “Effect of charge fluctuation on dust levitation over Moon” in 21st National Space Science Symposium (NSSS) 2022, Organized by IISER Kolkata 

[2] Oral presentation on “Lunar Photoelectron Sheath and possibility of Dust Levitation” in 3rd Indian Planetary Sciences Conferences, 2022 (IPSC2022) in PRL, Organized by Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India (Virtual Attendance) 

[1] Poster presentation on “Dust storm-driven lightning existence on Mars” in 2nd Indian Planetary Sciences Conferences, 2021 (IPSC2021) in PRL, Organized by Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India (Virtual Attendance)