About me

Academic

Post-Doctoral Research

Post doctoral research • 2019-till now

Currently I am doing my post doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS). My work here involves on analyzing space-borne data such as from the recently launched Solar Orbiter satellite.

Ph.D

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) • 2013-2019

I obtained my Ph.D in physics from Indian Institute of Astrophysics, under the supervision of Prof. Dipankar Banerjee. My thesis title was "Multi-wavelength study of waves and Solar atmospheric magneto-seismology". You can download it from here. 

College and University

Master in Science (M.Sc.) • 2012     Bachelor in Science (B.Sc.) • 2010

I obtained my master's degree [2010-2012] in Physics from University of Burdwan, West Bengal. Apart from regular classical, quantum and statistical mechanics courses, I had a special course on Material science. Before my M.Sc. degree, I attended Durgapur Government College during 2007-2010 for my B.Sc. degree. I had Physics as the major subject along with Chemistry and Mathematics as optional. 

Awards & Recognition

•2024: Co-chair of the Solar Orbiter Remote sensing Science Working Group  (RSWG)  on Atmospheric Heating.

•2023: SOOP (Solar Orbiter Observing Plan) coordinator. 

•2022: ESA appointed Science Planner for the NASA-led IRIS mission.

•2022: Co-Investigator (CoI) of Extreme-Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) telescope, on-board Solar Orbiter.

•2020: Best thesis presentation award by Astronomical Society of India (ASI).

•2019: U30 Scientist and Student award by Association of Asian Pacific Physical Societies-Division of Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP). 

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•2012: Qualified the CSIR-UGC NET examination (LS).

•2012: Qualified the GATE entrance test.

Professional memberships


Other information

Languages:

Bengali • [Native]

Hindi • [Fluent]

English • [Fluent]



Computer related:

Operating systems: • Linux,Windows

Programming languages: • IDL [fluent], Python [moderate], Fortran [minimal]


Others: • Latex, HTML