I am currently an INSPIRE Faculty at SPASE, IIT Kanpur. Before joining IIT Kanpur, I was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai. I completed my PhD from Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore under the Joint Astronomy Program at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.  Before this, I was an undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur.

My broad interests lie in Black Holes, Galaxy Dynamics, Galaxy Formation & Evolution, and Large-Scale Structures. My research methods include idealised N-body/ magneto-hydrodynamical simulations and data products from cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations (i.e. IllustrisTNG, Auriga). I also use observations from ASTROSAT (UVIT), DOT, GAIA, SDSS, etc.

Students interested in working with me, please feel free to reach out through email or at the Department (Room No: 706, Telephone: 0512-679-2616). Positions are available for short-term (Undergraduate students or summer students (look at IITK surge program) or MSc thesis) and long-term projects (PhD). 

In this video I discuss about my science path which began from school days and still continuing .....

Based on recent publications (Kataria & Shen 2022; 2024; Chiba & Kataria 2024)