Other Professional Activities

Administrative activities

1. Undergraduate Course Coordinator at the Department of Physics, Ashoka University (August 2021 -- July 2024)

2. Faculty representative of CASH (Committee Against Sexual Harassment, otherwise known as ICC) at Ashoka University (August 2021 -- July 2024)

3. PhD Coordinator of the Department of Physics, Ashoka University (August 2024 -- till date)

Project Grants received 

1. SERB Start-up Research Grant (SRG) (2023): Ongoing

2. DST INSPIRE Faculty Grant (2013): Completed

Conference / Workshop organization 

1. Inflation Parallel Session coordinator at 17th International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology at IIT Hyderabad (October 14 -- October 18, 2024). Website 

2. Organizer of "21st Century Cosmology: Tensions, Anomalies & New Physics" at Ashoka University (August 21 -- August 23, 2024), Website 

3. Working Group Co-coordinator of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics of Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP XV) 2017 at IISER Bhopal 

Membership 

1. International Astronomical Union (IAU) Individual member, joined in May 2024

2. Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG) Life Member, joined in February 2024

3. Indian Physics Association (IPA) Life Member, joined in October 2021

Invited Talks / Seminars / Colloquia

1. Colloquium at School of Astrophysics, Presidency University, Kolkata, 30th April, 2025, Talk Title: Some `background checks' for Warm Inflation

2. Plenary speaker at "Tensions and Anomalies on the Sky: Quest for New Physics at Cosmological Scales" at the Center For Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 6-8th March, 2025, Talk Title: Some `background checks' for Warm Inflation

3. Plenary speaker at BRICS-AGAC Symposium, organized by The Thanu Padmanabhan Centre for Cosmology and Science Popularization (CCSP), SGT University, 17 { 19 December 2024, Talk Title: Some `background checks' for Warm Inflation

4. Invited seminar at Majorana-Raychaudhuri Seminar Series (online) (December 6, 2024), Talk Title: Some `background checks' for Warm Inflation

5. Invited speaker at IOP Golden Jubilee Young Women Scientists' Meet 2024 at IOP, Bhubaneswar (13-14 November 2024), Talk Title: Some `background checks' for Warm Inflation

6. Seminar at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi (March 22, 2024), Talk Title: Embedding Ultra slow-roll in Warm Inflation 

7. Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar at IISc Bangalore, (November 22, 2023), Talk title: Embedding Ultra slow-roll in Warm Inflation

8. International Workshop on Gravity and Cosmology (IWGC) organized by Netaji Subhas University and Technology, Dwarka, Delhi (September 24--26, 2023), Talk title: Embedding Ultra slow-roll in Warm Inflation

9. Colloquium at Indian Physics Association (online) organized by IISER Berhampur (May 7, 2022), Talk title: What's troubling (cosmic) Inflation? 

10. Physics Research Workshop 2016 at IIT Kanpur (February 6--7, 2016), Talk title: Particle Physics potentials in Inflationary Cosmology

11. SINP Theory Seminar at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata (October 1, 2015), Talk title: Quantum origin to Classical existence: A plausible explanation 

12. QuIC Talk at IIT Kanpur (June 23, 2014), Talk Title: CSL as a plausible mechanism for quantum to classical transition of primordial perturbations

13. Physics Seminar at IIT Madras (January 31, 2014), Talk title: CSL as a plausible mechanism for quantum to classical transition of primordial perturbations

Invited Popular Level Talks

1. STEM Expo - "Caliper" at Ashoka University organized by IEEE Ashoka Student Branch (26 { 27 October, 2024), Talk Title: Our Universe as we know it

2. YSP Foundation Programme (June 6, 2024) at Ashoka University, Talk title: How Physics changed the way we understand the world

3. YSP Frontiers of Science (May 31, 2024) at Ashoka University, Talk title: Physics is all about Experiments!

4. Colloquium on Astronomy and Astrophysics at Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, Delhi, organized by Celestia Explora (April 5, 2024), Talk title: Cosmic Inflation rescuing the Big Bang Theory

5. STEM Expo at Ashoka University organized by IEEE Ashoka Student Branch (November 25, 2023), Talk Title: Cosmic Inflation rescuing the Big Bang Theory

6. Pressing for progress: A discussion meeting on the Gender Gap in Physics at ICTS Bangalore (March 22--23, 2018), Talk title: Impact of ICWIP on my perspective of Gender in Physics (focusing on unconscious bias and stereotypes) 

7. Science Day at IIT Kanpur (February 28, 2020), Talk Title: Dark Energy: One of the greatest puzzles of modern science

8. TEQIP B.Sc. Camp at IIT Kanpur (June 13--24, 2016), Talk Title: Discovery of Gravitational Waves: Another feather in Einstein's Cap

9. SURGE programme for Master's Students at IIT Kanpur (May 31, 2016), Talk Title: Discovery of Gravitational Waves: Another feather in Einstein's Cap

10. National Workshop of Utsahi Physics Teachers at IIT Kanpur (May 22--27,2016), Talk Title: Discovery of Gravitational Waves: Another feather in Einstein's Cap

Referee of International Journals

1. Physical Review Letters

2. Physical Review D

3. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

4. Physics of the Dark Universe

5. European Journal of Physics C

6. Universe 

7. Foundations of Physics

8. Pramana - Journal of Physics

9. External reviewer for the proposals submitted to National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT) of the Chilean Government Commission for Scientific and Technological Development (CONICYT)