SHIKHAR MITTAL

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Manipal Institute of Technology, Bengaluru Campus. My research lies at the intersection of cosmology, astrophysics, and computational physics, with a particular focus on understanding the formation of the first stars and galaxies through observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal from the early Universe.

Before joining Manipal, I was a Research Associate in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. I obtained my PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.

I am a member of the REACH (Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen) collaboration, an international effort led by the University of Cambridge to detect the global 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization.