Resume
Assistant Professor
2020-present
Currently working at the Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, India.
Royal Society-SERB Newton International Post-doctoral Fellow
2018-2020
Awarded jointly by the Royal Society, London, UK and SERB, India and hosted by Prof Ian McHardy at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, UK, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow on 'X-ray reverberation and X-ray/UV/optical reverberation mapping in Seyfert galaxies'
IUCAA postdoctoral fellow
2014-2017
WIth the postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), India, I worked on the broadly black hole and neutron star accretion physics, X-ray spectro-temporal data analysis, in-orbit calibration of LAXPC/AstroSat, design of the observation plan, pipeline software testing and production of scientific results.
Senior Research Fellow
2011-2014
Awarded by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, project: The Spectro-timing behaviour of black hole X-ray binaries during X-ray state transitions hosted by Prof J S Yadav
Junior Research Fellow
2008-2011
Awarded by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, project: 'Characterising the room-temperature semiconductor detectors suitable for space mission and exploring properties of X-ray binaries'
Organisational and professional Activities
2008-2020
2019 Press release: Southampton University Press ‘University researchers
discover black hole in our Galaxy spinning rapidly around itself’
Details: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2019/01/black-hole-spinning.page
2017-present International Science Development Team member, Thirty Meter
Telescope (TMT) project, TMT corporation, California, USA
2016-present Working as the reviewer in the Monthly Notice of Royal
Astronomical Society and Advances in Space Research
2016-present Working as a proposal reviewer for AstroSat mission
2015-present Instrument team member of LAXPC/AstroSat, India’s first multi
wavelength space-based Astronomical satellite, India
2013 - 2014 LAXPC instrument testing and calibration assistant, TIFR, India
2008 - 2011 X-ray instrument lab assistant at the Astronomy group, TIFR, India
Major Collaborations
2015-present
2018 - present Chandra and e-MERLIN legacy survey of nearby galaxies (LeM
MINGs survey) [University of Southampton, Oxford and Liverpool, Manchester, UK, Ohio University, USA, INAF, Italy]
2018 - present Simultaneous Multiwavelength Astronomy Research in Transients Network
(SmartNet) [ESO and Canada collaborative project]
2015 - present LAXPC/AStroSat instrument team collaborations
Observing experiences
2014-present
>> Principal Investigator of 17 approved programmes with 359 hours of international observation in AstroSat, Swift, GMRT, INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton, e-Merlin and SALT
>> Co-PI of 23 approved programmes with 513 hours in AstroSat, HST, SALT, Swift, Ultracam
Teaching and co-mentoring experiences
2015-present
2019 Delivered a lecture series on X-ray instrumentation and conducted
hands-on tutorial sessions on AstroSat data analysis at the University of Southampton, UK
2017 conducted tutorial sessions on X-ray pulsar analysis at the IUCAA, India
2019 co-mentored Mr Alex Weston, the Royal Society funded summer undergraduate,
The University of Southampton, UK
2015 - 2017 co-mentored Dr Mubashir Mir, University of Kashmir
2016 - 2017 co-mentored Dr D Rawat, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
2016 - 2018 co-mentored Dr Aditya Sow Mondal, PhD, Viswa Bharati University, India
Invited talks and visits
2014-present
2019 Solicited talk at the ‘Future of X-ray Timing’ conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2019 Solicited talk at the ‘Mapping central regions of Active Galactic Nuclei’
conference, Guilin, China
2019 Solicited talks at the SPINS-UK meeting at the University College, London
2018 Solicited talks at the TMT forum, ‘Extremely big eyes on the early universe’,
University of California, Los Angeles
2017 Invited talk at the Thirty Meter Telescope science forum 2017, Mysore, India
and participation at the workshop “Preparing TMT Future Science &
Technology Leaders” at the University of California, Santa Cruz
2017 Solicited talk at the conference on “Power of X-ray spectroscopy” at Warsaw, Poland
2016 Visited the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, the University of Amsterdam
with Dr Phil Uttley 6-16 February 2016
2016 Invited participant at ‘The X-ray Spectral-Timing Revolution’ at the Lorentz Center, University of Leiden, Netherlands
2015 Visited the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the University of Southampton in a collaborative
project ‘New frontiers in multi-wavelength astronomy: correlated variability of accreting
black holes and neutron stars from optical to X-rays’ May-June, 2015