RESEARCH PROFILE OF ACADEMICS - iucaa

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)