Curriculum Vitae
Education
- JRF in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2018
- M.Sc. in Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India, 2015
- B.Sc. in Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India, 2011
Work experience
- September 2024 - present: Adjunct (Assistant Professor)
- Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej im. Henryka Niewodniczańskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk (IFJ PAN)
- Location: Kraków, Poland
- Department: NZ15, Cosmic Ray Research and Neutrino Studies
- Supervisor: Dariusz Góra
- Summary: Member of the Pierre Auger Collaboration. Researcher of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory
- January 2019 - April 2024: Doctoral Researcher (Ph.D.)
- Institut de Física d´Altes Energies (IFAE)
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Group: Gamma-ray Astronomy
- Supervisor: Abelardo Moralejo
- Summary: Member of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium (CTAC) and MAGIC Collaboration. Research on developing software tools for the analysis of data from Large-Sized Telescopes (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), and analysis of Very-High-Energy gamma-ray data of bright Active Galactic Nuclei using LST-1.
Skills
- Programming Languages & Tools
- Advanced: Python
- Intermediate: C, C++, ROOT
- Beginner: HTML, FORTRAN, Bash, Java
- Data Analysis & Machine Learning
- Advanced:
NumPy,Pandas,Matplotlib
- Advanced:
- Astronomy & Astrophysics Software
- Advanced: Gammapy, pyirf
- Main Developer:
- uhecluster: Direction-Time Clustering Algorithms to detect Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) Photons
- asgardpy: Analysis Software for GAmma-Ray Data in Python, a wrapper on the Gammapy software, for multi-instrument analysis of gamma-ray data
- cta-lstchain: Testbench software pipeline for analyzing data from the LST prototype of CTAO
Languages
- Full Professional Proficiency: English
- Native or Bilingual Proficiency: Hindi
- Limited Working Proficiency: Marathi
- Elementary Proficiency: Bengali, Spanish
Funds
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - EU Horizon 2020
- Role: Predoctoral Researcher
- Period: 2019-01-14 - 2024-03-13
- Description: Predoctoral grant provided under the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology’s PREBIST program
- Council of Scientific & Industrial Research - University Grants Commission (CSIR-UGC) NET, India
- Role: Junior Research Fellow
- Period: 2015-08-01 - 2018-04-30
- Description: Doctoral grant provided through the Joint Astronomy Programme of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
Publications
Talks
Can we see light in the ultra-high-energy sky?
Seminar talk at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
Ultra-High-Energy Photon Searches with the Pierre Auger Observatory: Constraints, Multi-messenger Synergies, and Future Prospects
Conference talk at The University-Enterprise Foundation of the University of Valencia (ADEIT), Valencia, Spain
The Analysis of the first blazars by the Large Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO)
Conference talk at The University-Enterprise Foundation of the University of Valencia (ADEIT), Valencia, Spain
Space-Time Clustering analysis using Python
Talk at Centro Convegni 'Luigi Zordan', L'Aquila, Italy
Looking at the night sky in the very high energy range
Talk at remote, Bhopal, India
Analysis with First Data from Large Size Telescope of Cherenkov Telescope Array
Talk at Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual, Benasque, Spain
