Curriculum Vitae
Positions
Dec 2022 - Present: Postdoctoral researcher, Stockholm University, Sweden
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023: Visiting research fellow, Tohoku University, Japan
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022: JSPS Postdoctoral fellow, Tohoku University, Japan
April 2022 - Nov 2022: JSPS Doctoral fellow, Tohoku University, Japan
Education
2019 - 2022: PhD Astronomy, Tohoku University, Japan
2016 - 2019: M.Sc. in Energy Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
2013 - 2016: B.Sc. (Honors) in Physics with Mathematics and Chemistry, Bethune College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Awards/Grants
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)
Services/Mentoring
Organiser of Extreme Object Working group meeting, Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University (2023 Oct - now)
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)
Presented an "Albano-talk" (TED-like) in Stockholm organized to celebrate the inauguration of the new campus of Stockholm University (2023)
Mentor of Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee (2021 - 2023), a former undergraduate Student at 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 MNRASReviewer for MNRAS letters, Astrophysical Journal, Annalen Der Physik (2022 - Present)
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)