Prerna Rana ( 2015 to 2021 )
Post-doctoral fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
Post Ph.D Tenures :

Testimonials : I completed my Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore in January 2021. For my Ph.D. thesis, I worked with Prof. Arun Mangalam on the General Relativistic dynamics of the black hole systems and implication to observations. Currently, I am a post-doctoral fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. I am working with the Indian Pulsar Timing Array collaboration (InPTA; website - https://inpta.iitr.ac.in/) which is conducting a pulsar timing experiment in the search for low-frequency nanoHz Gravitational Waves. At InPTA, we make use of the upgraded Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) for monitoring a sample of galactic millisecond pulsars for this purpose. I have contributed to the first data release of InPTA, and I am currently working on the interstellar medium studies, particularly on the investigation of radio-frequency dependence of dispersion measure (DM) of InPTA pulsars. I am also working on the search for nanoHz Gravitational Waves from the hyperbolic interactions of supermassive black binary systems. I am interested in various General Relativistic studies of particle and photon orbits in the Kerr spacetime. For more details, please check https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6184-5195