Welcome
Personal
I am Vikrant V. Jadhav.
Currently, I'm a Humboldt fellow postdoc at the University of Bonn, Germany.
Previously, I was a post-doctoral fellow at IUCAA, Pune, India, working on developing detection algorithms for low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies.
I did my Ph. D. at the Joint Astronomy Program at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore.
I am a master's graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Research Interests
Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
I work on UVIT data for open clusters.
UV astronomy and Instrumentation
Open clusters
Cluster membership
UV properties of open clusters
Binary Stars
Study of exotic population such as Blue Stragglers, Extremely low mass White Dwarfs
Magellanic system
Star formation in Magellanic Bridge
Young clusters in SMC
Binary stars
Formation and evolution
Multiwavelength and multimessenger analysis
LSB galaxies
Detection and survey
About me
Vikrant V. Jadhav,
Post Doctoral Fellow,
email: vjadhav[at]astro.uni-bonn.de
Experience
Humboldt Fellow, University of Bonn, Germany, Apr 2023 - present
Post Doctoral Fellow, IUCAA, Pune, Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Education:
Ph.D., Aug 2017 - Aug 2022,
Thesis title: Panchromatic study of star clusters: binaries, blue lurkers, blue stragglers and membership
Thesis Supervisor: Professor Annapurni Subramaniam (IIA)
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore, India
Int. M.Sc. Physics, July 2012 - July 2017,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India
Publications:
Orcid iD: 0000-0002-8672-3300