Academic Experience

Academic Positions  

• Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru - 560034, India (Jul 2025 - present)

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru - 560034, India (Feb 2021 - Jun 2025)

• Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Dr. Luca Teriaca), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Göttingen - 37077, Lower Saxony, Germany (May 2019 - Dec 2020)

• Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Yuming Wang), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei 230026, Anhui, P.R. China (Jun 2015 - Apr 2019)

• Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Nandita Srivastava), Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Udaipur - 313001, Rajasthan, India (Mar 2015 - May 2015)

• Research Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Nandita Srivastava), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Dept. of Space, Ahmedabad - 380009, Gujarat, India (Jul 2010 - Mar 2015)
  
  
  

Visiting Positions

• Visiting Researcher (Collaborator: Prof. Jie Zhang), George Mason University (GMU), Fairfax - 22030, Virginia, U.S.A. (Dec 2018 - Feb 2019)

University Education    

• Ph.D. (Physics), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Udaipur Solar Observatory, Udaipur, India (Jul 2010 - Jan 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 (Jul 2007 - Jun 2009)

• B.Sc. (Physics, Maths, & Chemistry), D.D.U. Gorakhpur University (DDUGU), Gorakhpur, U.P., India, (Jul 2004 - Jun 2007)

Fellowships and Examinations

1. Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, a unit of the Department of Space, Government of India, Jul 2010.

2. Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) in Physical Sciences (All India Rank: 97), under the lectureship category, conducted jointly by CSIR-UGC, India, Jun 2009.

3. Secured top 10% position in the National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE) at the Gorakhpur University center, conducted by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT), Mar 2007