Contact
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
(IIST) Valiamala P.O, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 547 Kerala, India
- + 91-0471-2568402
- vc[at]iist.ac.in
Personal
- Personal Details
Date of Birth: 18th September, 1965
Family: Married with two children
- Interests
- Sports: Avid follower of all sorts of sports and was part of the IISc football team for 5 years.
- Music: Trained in Hindustani vocal and participates in various musical programs
- Theatre: President of a Bangalore based Bengali theatre group and regularly performs in plays in and outside Bangalore
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India 2019
- Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, , India 2020
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London: 1998.
KVPY Undergraduate Student Supervision
| Mr. Suvrat Rao (Now: M.Sc Physics, IIT, Kharagpur) | May - June 2017 |
| Ms. Radhika AC (Now: M.Sc Physics, IISER, Pune) | May - June 2016 |
| Mr. Hardik Routray (Now: PhD, Rutgers Physics & Astronomy, USA) | May - June 2015 |
The National Initiative on Undergraduate Science (NIUS) Supervision
| Arutkeerthi N (IIT, Roorkee) | 2022 - 23 |
| Mr. Ankur Chauhan (Now: M.Sc Physics, HRI) | Jan - June 2016 |
| Mr. Keshav Jayani (Now: IIT, Mumbai) | Jan - June 2016 |
| Ms. Anwesha Maharana (Now: PhD scholar, KULeuven, Belgium) | Jan - June 2016 |
| Ms. Priyanka Iyer (Now: Masters student, Cambridge, UK) | June 2017 - June 2019 |
| Ms. Arunima Kundu (B.Sc Physics, St Stephens College, Delhi) | June 2017 - June 2019 |
| Mr. Arkaprabha Chakaraborty (B.Sc Physics, Jaipuria College) | June 2017 - June 2019 |
Post Doc Supervision
| Dr. Manjunath Hedge | (DST- SERB project) 2019 - 2022 |
| Dr. Rakesh Mazumdar (BRICS project) | (BRICS project) 2018 - 2019 |
Undergraduate Supervision
The National Initiative on Undergraduate Science (NIUS) Supervision
| Mr. Ankur Chauhan (Now: M.Sc Physics, HRI) | Jan - June 2016 |
| Mr. Keshav Jayani (Now: IIT, Mumbai) | Jan - June 2016 |
| Ms. Anwesha Maharana (Now: M.Sc Physics, IISER, Pune) | Jan - June 2016 |
| Ms. Priyanka Iyer (Now: B.Sc Physics, St Stephens College, Delhi) | June 2017 - |
| Ms. Arunima Kundu (Now: B.Sc Physics, St Stephens College, Delhi) | June 2017 - |
| Mr. Arkaprabha Chakaraborty (Now: B.Sc Physics, Jaipuria College) | June 2017 - |
KVPY Undergraduate Student Supervision
| Mr. Suvrat Rao (Now: M.Sc Physics, IIT, Kharagpur) | May - June 2017 |
| Ms. Radhika AC (Now: M.Sc Physics, IISER, Pune) | May - June 2016 |
| Mr. Hardik Routray (Now: PhD Rutgers Physics & Astronomy, USA) | May - June 2015 |
Recent Masters thesis Supervision
| Mr. Devesh Dhole (IIT, Mumbai) | 2023 |
| Mr. Suraj Kumar Tripathy (IIST, Thiruvananthapuram) | 2023 |
| Mr. Kanchan Rajendra Jangle (IISER, Berhampur) | 2023 |
| Mr. Abhas Pradahan (IIT, Kharagpur, Now PhD Scholar at Max Planck Germany) | 2022 |
| Ms. Aarushi Rawat (Delhi University, Now PhD Scholar at Max Planck Germany) | 2022 |
| Mr. Aditya Priyadarshi (IISER, Kolkata) | Jan - May 2019 |
| Mr. Vishnu Madhu (Now: PhD IIA, Kolkata) | Jan - July 2019 |
| Ms. Shreya Bhattacharya (Now:Phd Scholar, Royal Observatory of Belgium) | Jan - May 2018 |
| Mr. Ajay Tiwari (Now: Phd Scholar, Northrumbria University, UK) | Feb 2016 - Feb 2017 |
| Mr. Sudarshan Saranathan (Now:Phd Scholar, Max Planck, Germany) | Jan - August 2016 |
| Ms. Lopamudra Mukherjee (Now: Phd Scholar, IIT Guwahati) | Jan - June 2016 |
| Ms. Shilpa Sarkar (Now:PDF, IUCAA) | Jan - May 2015 |
| Mr. Saurabh Singh Chauhan (Now: Phd Scholar, University of Minnesota) | Jan - June 2015 |
| Ms. Pavithraa Sundararajan (Now: Phd Scholar, National ChioTong University) | Jan - June 2014 |