Academic interests
- Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the solar corona, with a focus on magnetic reconnections and high energetic phenomena like solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
- Magnetic field extrapolations using numerical models of non-force-free/nonlinear-force-free magnetic fields and their applications to spectro-polarimetric data from solar photosphere and chromosphere.
- Topological and statistical properties of coronal fields derived from magnetic field extrapolations, with focus on magnetic braiding, magnetic helicity, properties of magnetic null points and formation of current sheets.
Background
- March 2016 Ph.D. - Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi 110068, India.
- Thesis title: Magnetic Helicity and Force-Free Properties of Astrophysical Magnetic Fields
- Institute: Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India.
- Adviser: Prof. Arun Mangalam, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India.
- June 2010 Master of Science - Indian Institute of Astrophysics/Indira Gandhi National Open University (Integrated M.Sc.-PhD in Physics and Astrophysics), Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
- June 2008 Bachelor of Science - University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Awards
- Sep. 2011 Awarded the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship (SPMF) for JRF/SRF by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR).
Appointments
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Aug 2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Rosseland Center for Solar Physics, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Oct 2018 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Center for Space Plasma & Aeronomic Research, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, USA
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June 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
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March 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India
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Aug. 2012 Senior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India
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Aug. 2010 Junior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India