Profile
Awards and Honors
Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bengaluru, in 2023
NASI-Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award in Physical Sciences, by the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), in 2022
President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) award for Postdoctoral Researchers, by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2015
Academic Experience
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru-560034, India (02/2021 - till now)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Dr. Luca Teriaca), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Göttingen-37077, Lower Saxony, Germany (05/2019 - 12/2020)
Postdoctoral Researcher (Advisor: Prof. Yuming Wang), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei 230026, Anhui, P.R. China (06/2015 - 04/2019)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Nandita Srivastava), Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Udaipur-313001, Rajasthan, India (03/2015 - 05/2015)
Research Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Nandita Srivastava), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Dept. of Space, Ahmedabad-380009, Gujarat, India (07/2010 - 03/2015)
Visiting Positions
Affiliate Faculty (Collaborator: Prof. Jie Zhang), George Mason University (GMU), Fairfax-22030, Virginia, U.S.A. (12/2018 - 02/2019)
Fellowships and Examinations
Selected as Project Scientist for CGAUSS project funded by German Aerospace Center (DLR) at Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany, Nov 2020 (declined the offer to join as an Assistant Professor at IIA, Bengaluru)
Fellowship from Max Planck Society for Postdoctoral Research at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Germany, Feb 2019
Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, a unit of Dept. of Space, Govt. of India, Jul 2010
National Eligibility Test (NET) (All India Rank: 97), in Physical Sciences, under eligibility for lectureship category, by joint CSIR-UGC, India, Jun 2009
National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE), in top 10% at Gorakhpur University center, by Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT), Mar 2007
University Education
Ph.D. (Physics), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Udaipur Solar Observatory, Udaipur, India (07/2010 - 01/2016)
Thesis title: Evolution and Consequences of Coronal Mass Ejections in the Heliosphere
Advisor: Prof. Nandita Srivastava
M.Sc. (Physics), D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, (DDUGU) Gorakhpur, U.P., India (07/2007 - 06/2009)
B.Sc. (Physics, Maths, & Chemistry), from D.D.U. Gorakhpur University (DDUGU), Gorakhpur, U.P., India, (07/2004 - 06/2007)