Curriculum Vitae

Positions:

Assistant Professor (adiunkt) (2025-): Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, Poland
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2022-2024): High Energy Physics, Cosmology & Astrophysics Theory Group, Department of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Ph.D. (2017-2021): Theoretical Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
M.Sc. (2015-2017): Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
B.Sc. (2012-2015): Physics (Hons.), University of Delhi, India

Ph.D. Thesis:

Compact objects in exotic premise and underlying gravitational waves

Supervisor: Prof. Banibrata Mukhopadhyay (IISc, Bangalore, India)

Masters Thesis:

Random Matrix Theory and its application

Supervisor: Prof. Arul Lakshminarayan (IIT Madras, India)

Supervising students:

(2021) Theory project on the study of white dwarfs in the weak field limit of f(R) gravity for Lupamudra Sarmah of IIT, BHU in Summer Research Program.
(2019) Reading project on stellar structure for Abhisek Tamang of IIT, Guwahati in Summer Fellowship Program.

Short-term Research Experience:

Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (LEAPS), 2016, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.

Tailed objects identification and study of their properties

Visiting Student Research Program (VSRP), 2014, National Center for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India.

Spectral Index studies to compare the ages of the Radio Galaxies

Computer Skills:

Python
C/C++
Mathematica
Unix
XNS (Numerical code to study the structure of rotating magnetized compact objects)
TOPCAT (Interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data)

Awards:

(2023) Kumari L A Meera Memorial Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis in Theoretical Physics, IISc Bangalore.
(2022-2023) South African Research Chairs Initiative grant holder Postdoctoral fellowship, awarded by the National Research Foundation and the Department of Science of South Africa.
(2019) Tata Trust Travel Grant for 30th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics.
(2019) Special Mention for the best talk in IAU symposium 357, Hilo, Hawaii, US.
(2019) Travel grant from International Astronomical Union (IAU) in IAU symposium 357.
(2017) GATE, All India Rank: 52.
(2015) JEST, All India Rank: 98.
(2012) INSPIRE scholarship for B.Sc. and M.Sc.

Communication:

(2025) Seminar at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.
(2025) Seminar at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India.
(2025) Seminar at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
(2025) Seminar at Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, Poland.
(2024) Oral Presentation at International symposium on space science, astrophysics and cosmology, Delhi, India (online).
(2024) Oral Presentation at Kashiwa-no-ha Dark Matter and Cosmology Symposium, IPMU, Japan.
(2024) Oral Presentation at Cosmo'24, Kyoto University, Japan.
(2024) Oral & Poster Presentation at 32nd IAU General Assembly, Cape Town, South Africa.
(2024) Oral Presentation at 2024 Science Faculty Postdoctoral Researcher Day, UCT, South Africa
(2024) Oral Presentation at HEPCAT Workshop on Relativistic and Large-Scale Effects in Cosmological Observables, UCT, South Africa.
(2023) Oral Presentation at International Symposium on Recent Developments in Relativistic Astrophysics, SRM University, India.
(2023) Oral Presentation at ICGC-2023, IIT Guwahati, India.
(2023) Oral Presentation at Current Trends in Cosmology & High Energy Physics, SGT University, India.
(2023) Seminar at Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia University, India.
(2023) Oral Presentation at Applications of Quantum Information in Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
(2023) Seminar at Astrophysics Department, University of Western Cape, South Africa.
(2023) Seminar at Department of Physics, Abhayapuri College, India.
(2023) Oral Presentation at Cosmology on Safari, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2023) Seminar at Physics Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
(2022) Physics department colloquium at San Diego State University, US.
(2022) Oral Presentation at White Dwarfs from Physics to Astrophysics, KITP, Santa Barbara, US.
(2022) Oral Presentation at Swiss-SA Astronomy Bilateral Workshop, HartRAO, South Africa.
(2022) Oral Presentation at Metric-Affine Frameworks for Gravity 2022, University of Tartu, Estonia (online).
(2022) Research colloquium at Gauhati University, Guwahati, India.
(2022) Physics department seminar at University of IIT, Guwahati, India.
(2021) Theoretical physics seminar at University of Tartu, Estonia (online).
(2021) Oral Presentations at 16th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (online).
(2021) Oral Presentation at Geometric Foundations of Gravity, University of Tartu, Estonia (online).
(2021) Oral Presentation at BritGrav21, University College Dublin, Ireland (online).
(2020) Oral Presentation at 31st meeting of IAGRG, IIT, Gandhinagar, India (online).
(2020) Oral Presentation at North-East Meet of Astronomers-VI, IIT, Guwahati, India (online).
(2020) Invited talk at workshop on Broadband X-ray Polarization of Compact Objects in 38th Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, IISER, Tirupati, India.
(2020) Oral Presentation at 38th Meeting of Astronomical Society of India, IISER, Tirupati, India.
(2019) Oral & Poster Presentation at 30th Texas symposium on relativistic astrophysics, University of Portsmouth, UK.
(2019) Oral & Poster Presentation at ICGC-2019, IISER, Mohali, India.
(2019) Poster Presentation at Department Inhouse Symposium, IISc, Bangalore, India.
(2019) Invited talk at National Conference on Transient Astronomy, ISRO, India.
(2019) Seminar at Astro lunch talk, UCSB, Santa Barbara, US.
(2019) Oral Presentation at IAU symposium 357, Hilo, Hawaii, US.
(2019) Oral Presentation at Young Astronomers’ Meet, Kodaikanal solar observatory, India.
(2019) Seminar at IMSc, Chennai, India.
(2019) Oral Presentation at RETCO-IV, IUCAA, Pune, India.
(2018) Oral & Poster Presentation at EXPUNIV2018, S.N. Bose Center of Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India.
(2018) Oral Presentation at Young Astronomers’ Meet, PRL, Ahmedabad, India.
(2017) Seminar at IIT Madras, India.
(2016) Seminar at LEAPS, Leiden University, Netherlands.
(2014) Seminar at VSRP, NCRA, Pune, India.

Public Outreach:

(2018-2020) Coordinator for the open day in IISc, Bangalore.
(2019) Coordinator for the Astronomy Day in Schools, IAU100 Global Project.

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