Curriculum Vitae

Awards/Grants

• Scholarship from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for a visit to the California Institute of Technology with a total amount of  ~ 4,600 USD

• Alva and Lennart Dahlmark research grants for young researchers with an amount of 2,100 USD (2023 - 2024).

• Alva and Lennart Dahlmark research grants for young researchers with an amount of 15,000 SEK ~ 1,400 USD (2023)

• Aoba Society for the Promotion of Science Award, (Best PhD Award in Science division), Tohoku University, Japan (2023)

• JSPS DC2 and postdoctoral fellow (Research Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science)
  with a research grant 1,000,000 yen (7000 USD), planned for 2 years (2022-2024, rejected after the first year)

•  Scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT),
  Govt. of Japan (2019 - 2022)

• Scholarship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India (2016 - 2019)

• Special staff prize (Best Student Award) from Bethune College, Kolkata (2015 -2016)

• Best Student Award from Bethune College, Kolkata (2014)

• INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) from the Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, given based on Class 12th standard examination results (top 1%) of respective Boards of education
  (2013 -2016)

Supervising/ Mentoring

• Master thesis supervisor of Daria Ogneva for a 45-credit project at Uppsala University, Sweden

• Mentor of Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, a former undergraduate Student at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), now a graduate student at California Institute of Technology, USA, a paper by Bhattacharjee, S., Banerjee, S., et al. 2024, published in MNRAS

• Mentor of several students regarding "Study-Abroad" (of India) and fellowships in Japan

Services

• Reviewer for Nature Astronomy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, MNRAS letters, Astrophysical Journal, Annalen Der Physik (2022 - Present)

• Panel member in Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop 2024, Birmingham, UK, in the session "What is needed for GW-EM follow-up."

• Postdoc. representative of the Working Environment group (council for working environment and equal opportunities which acts upon the issues and devise policies regarding equality, diversity, discrimination and harassment), Stockholm University, Sweden, 2024; Currently involved with drafting ``equality plan 2025 - 2028'' to foster greater inclusiveness and designing a Code of Conduct for Astronomy Department (2024)

• Served as an internal reviewer for the Licentiate thesis defense (mid-PhD defense for a Licentiate degree in Sweden) for PhD student, Stockholm University, Sweden (April 2024)

• Served as an Opponent for the Licentiate thesis defense (mid-PhD defense for a Licentiate degree in Sweden) for PhD student, Uppsala University, Sweden (Feb 2024)

• Organiser of Extreme Object Working group meeting, Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University (2023 Oct - Present)

• Presented an "Albano-talk" (TED-like) in Stockholm organized to celebrate the inauguration of the new campus of Stockholm University (2023)

• LoC Chair in The Radiative transfer and Atomic Physics of kilonova Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden (2023)

• Chair in "Multi-messenger observations: jet physics and remnant properties", Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (2021)

• Multi-departmental outreach talk on "Kilonova: The tale of the two neutron star mergers" in Science and Life Sciences Joint Symposium, Tohoku University (2021)

• Founder and organizer of "Graduate Students' weekly colloquium", Tohoku University (2020 - 2022)

• Talk on "Gamma-ray bursts: the most violent phenomena in the universe" in the Astro-cosmo-Gravity (ACG) Summer School, IIT Bombay (2018)

• Exhibitor at Astro-cosmo-Gravity (ACG) stall in Techfest, the annual technical exhibition in IIT Bombay (2017, 2018)