RESEARCH PROFILE OF ACADEMICS - iucaa

INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
(An Autonomous Institution of the University Grants Commission)
RESEARCH PROFILE OF ACADEMICS
No. Name of the Academic Member, Position, E-mail address (id given in brackets
should be followed by @iucaa.ernet.in), and the Area of Research
1. Professor Ajit K. Kembhavi, Director (akk)
Quasars, Elliptical Galaxies, Virtual Observatory, and Simulations.
2. Professor Joydeep Bagchi, Associate Professor (Scientist F) (joydeep)
Radio Astronomy, X-ray Studies of Galaxy Clusters, and High Energy Radiative Processes.
3. Professor Dipankar Bhattacharya, Professor (Scientist H) (dipankar)
High Energy Astrophysics, Neutron Stars, Gamma Ray Bursts, and X-ray Astronomy.
4. Professor Sukanta Bose, Professor (Scientist G) (sukanta)
5. Professor Naresh K. Dadhich, Emeritus Professor (nkd)
Classical General Relativity, and Relativistic Astrophysics.
6. Professor Gulab Chand Dewangan, Associate Professor (Scientist F) (gulabd)
X-ray Astronomy, AGNs, ULXs, X-ray Binaries, Multi-wavelength Astronomy.
7. Professor Neeraj Gupta, Professor (Scientist E) (ngupta)
Interstellar medium, Quasar absorption lines, Radio and optical spectroscopy, Wideband radio
aperture synthesis, Very long baseline interferometry, and techniques relevant to large
spectroscopic surveys.
8. Professor Ranjan Gupta, Professor (Scientist G) (rag)
Astronomical Instrumentation, Stellar Spectroscopy, and Artificial Neural Networks.
9. Professor Ranjeev Misra, Associate Professor (Scientist F) (rmisra)
Blackhole and Neutron Star Binaries, AGN and Quasars, High Energy Radiative Processes,
and X-ray Data Analysis.
10. Professor Sanjit Mitra, Assistant Professor (Scientist E) (sanjit)
Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Cosmic Microwave Background.
11. Professor Jayant V. Narlikar, Emeritus Professor (jvn)
Physical Cosmology, Quantum Cosmology, Extragalactic Astrophysics, and Gravitation.
12. Professor T. Padmanabhan, Dean, Core Academic Programmes, Distinguished Professor
(Scientist I) (paddy)
Quantum Gravity, QFT in Curved Spacetime, Cosmology, Structure Formation in the
Universe, and Statistical Mechanics of Gravitating Systems.
13. Professor A.N. Ramaprakash, Professor (Scientist G) (anr)
Astronomical Instrumentation, and Observations.
14. Professor Kanak Saha, Professor (Scientist E) (kanak)
Galactic dynamics, galaxy evolution, bulges in spiral galaxies, stellar bars and double bars,
structure and spin of dark matter haloes around disk galaxies, Milky Way, disk instabilities,
spiral structures, N-body simulation.

No. Name of the Academic Member, Position, E-mail address (id given in brackets
should be followed by @iucaa.ernet.in), and the Area of Research
15. Professor Varun Sahni, Professor (Scientist H) (varun)
Cosmology, Early Universe, Inflation, QFT in Curved Spacetime, Formation of Large Scale
Structure, and CMB.
16. Professor Tarun Souradeep, Professor (Scientist G) (tarun)
Cosmology, Structure Formation in the Universe, CMB, Early Universe, and Applications of
QFT in Curved Spacetimes.
17. Professor R. Srianand, Professor (Scientist G) (anand)
QSO, Absorption Lines, Intergalactic Medium, and Cosmology.
18. Professor Kandaswamy Subramanian, Professor (Scientist H) (kandu)
Gravitational Lensing, Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Field, Cosmology, Structure Formation,
and Early Universe.
19. Professor Shyam N. Tandon, Emeritus Professor (sntandon)
Cosmic Ray Physics, Infrared and Far Infrared Astronomy, Astronomical Observations using
Balloon Borne Flat Forms, Astronomical Instrumentation, and Weak Forces in Nature.
20. Professor Durgesh Tripathi, Assistant Professor (Scientist E) (durgesh)
Physics of Solar Atmosphere, Solar Eruptions and Associated Phenomena, Solar Terrestrial
Relations, Spectroscopy, Solar Magneto-hydrodynamics.
21. Dr. Pavan Kumar Aluri, Post-doctoral Fellow (aluri)
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) - data analysis/statistical isotropy,
Modified theories of gravity and, Anisotropic cosmological models and their implications (to
CMB anisotropies).
22. Dr. Varun Bhalerao, Vaidya-Raychaudhuri Post-doctoral Fellow (varunb)
Compact objects (Neutron stars, white dwarfs) in X-rays, Optical and
IR; Instrumentation
23. Dr. Girjesh R. Gupta, DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship (girjesh)
Study of MHD turbulence in the solar and astrophysical plasmas, solar spectroscopy and time
series analysis.
24. Dr. Vishal H. Joshi, Post-doctoral Fellow (vishal)
Novae-Classical and Recurrent, Supernovae, optical transients, Techniques: Optical / nearinfrared
- Photometry and Spectroscopy, Image processing
25. Mr. Kinjalk Lochan, Post-doctoral Fellow (kinjalk)
Quantum Gravity, Black hole thermodynamics, Early universe etc.
26. Dr. Arunava Mukherjee, Post-doctoral Fellow (arunava)
Timing and Spectral properties in Low-mass X-ray Binaries, Physics of Accretion Processes,
High Energy Astrophysics
27. Dr. Barun Kumar Pal, Post-doctoral Fellow (barunpal)
Cosmological inflation, inflationary perturbations, cosmic microwave background radiation
(CMB) and weak gravitational lensing of CMB.
28. Dr. Nidhi Pant, Post-doctoral Fellow (nidhip)
Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background, Statistical Isotropy Violation, Statistical
techniques for data analysis in Cosmology, Estimating the systematic effects in CMB
experiments, Gravitational Waves
29. Dr. Mandar Patil, Post-doctoral Fellow (mandar)
General Relativity, Gravitational Waves, Cosmology.
30. Dr. Jayanti Prasad, Project Post-doctoral Fellow (jayanti)
31. Dr. Shruti Tripathi, Post-doctoral Fellow (stripathi)
X-ray variability of AGN, multi-wavelength properties and optical-UV-X-ray studies in AGN.
32. Dr. Nilkanth D. Vagshette, Project Scientist – ASTROSAT (nilkanth)

No. Name of the Academic Member, Position, E-mail address (id given in brackets
should be followed by @iucaa.ernet.in), and the Area of Research
33. Dr. M. Vivek, Post-doctoral Fellow (vivekm)
Quasar absorption/emission lines, Quasar outflows, Broad absorption line quasars and Binary
quasars
34. Mr. Anirban Ain, Research Scholar (ainz)
Sources and Detection of Gravitational Waves.
35. Mr. Satadru Bag, Research Scholar (satadru)
Effective potential formalism, Inflationary Cosmology, Braneworld Cosmology.
36. Ms. Pallavi Bhat, Research Scholar (palvi)
Cosmic Magnetic Fields and Turbulent Dynamos.
37. Mr. Prasanta Bera, Research Scholar (pbera)
38. Mr. Sumanta Chakraborty, Research Scholar (First Year) (sumanta)
39. Mr. Kabir Chakravarti, Research Scholar (First Year) (kabir)
40. Mr. Luke Chamandy, Research Scholar (luke)
Magnetic Fields, Numerical Simulations.
41. Mr. Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, Research Scholar (sabyasachi)
Optical Instrumentation : Photometry, Fibre fed Spectrography, Electronic Control System,
Critical Observation
42. Mr. Santanu Das, Research Scholar (santanud)
Cosmology and Gravitation.
43. Ms. Rajeshwari Dutta, Research Scholar (rdutta)
44. Mr. Bhooshan Gadre, Research Scholar (bug)
Gravity and Gravitational Waves.
45. Mr. Shaikh Shabbir Isak, Research Scholar (First Year) (shabbir)
46. Mr. Charles Jose, Research Scholar (charles)
Cosmology, Structure formation in the Universe.
47. Mr. Vikram Khaire, Research Scholar (vikramk)
Intergalactic medium, Cosmic ultraviolet background radiation.
48. Mr. Nagendra Kumar, Research Scholar (nagendrak)
49. Ms. Labani Mallick, Research Scholar (First Year) (labani)
50. Mr. Dipanjan Mukherjee, Research Scholar (dipanjan)
MHD of Accretion Flows on Neutron Stars, and Numerical Simulations.
51. Mr. Suvodip Mukherjee, Research Scholar (suvodip)
Cosmology, CMB physics, Early Universe.
52. Mr. Nikhil Mukund K., Research Scholar (First Year) (nikhil)
53. Ms. Hamsa Padmanabhan, Research Scholar (hamsa)
Cosmology, Structure Formation in the Universe, Intergalactic medium.
54. Mr. Main Pal, Research Scholar (mainpal)
55. Mr. Krishna Mohan Parattu, Research Scholar (krishna)
Gravitation.
56. Mr. Sk. Javed Rana, Research Scholar (First Year) (javed)
57. Mr. Shakti Viraat S. Rathod, Research Scholar (First Year) (shakti)
58. Mr. Aditya Rotti, Research Scholar (aditya)
Cosmology with Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.
59. Mr. Suprit Singh, Research Scholar (suprit)
Quantum Gravity/Quantum field theory in curved spacetime.
60. Mr. Kaustubh Vaghmare, Research Scholar (kaustubh)
Galaxies – Surface Photometry and Spectroscopy, Structure and Evolution of Lenticular
Galaxies.