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Full Timers

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Niruj Mohan Ramanujam

Head, SCOPE Section

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Chrisphin Karthick

Deputy Head, SCOPE Section

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Vikranth Pulamathi

Associate, SCOPE Section

Current & Former Interns of SCOPE Section

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Jhana J.
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Renjithmon A A
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Sanjana Anand
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Bhakti Mithagri
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Harikrishnan Menon
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Shashwath Gupta
Currently pursuing a PGDM in Data science
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Snehalatha K.
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Vishaak K. B.
Currently pursuing an M.Sc. at the University of Hamburg, Germany
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Srishti Sharma
Currently pursuing an M.Sc. at IISER - TVM
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Amith Gowtham
Currently pursuing an M.Sc. at the University of Mainz, Germany

Domain Experts from Different Fields

From Academic Staff

These are members of faculty are:

  1. Sanved Kolekar
  2. Mousumi Das
  3. Ravindra Banyal
  4. Arun Surya
  5. Anusha L. S.

The Post-Doctoral Fellows are:

  1. Avinanda Chakraborty

Past members:

  1. Vipin Kumar Sharma
  2. Sarang Shah
  3. Sharanya Sur
  4. Manjunath Hegde
  5. Binukumar

From Engineering

The representatives for various engineering domains are:

  1. Prasanna Deshmukh
  2. D. V. S. Phanindra
  3. B. S. Remya

For Projects

The representatives for specific projects are:

  1. Thirty Meter Telescope:
    1. Ramya Sethuram
    2. Karthic Kumar
    3. Alikhan Basheer
  2. Visible Emission Line Coronagraph:
    1. Vemareddy P.

Points of Contact for Field Stations

Indian Astronomical Observatory, Ladakh

  1. Dorje Angchuk
  2. Tsewang Gyalson
  3. Sonam Jorphail
  4. Dorjey Namgyal

Vainu Bappu Observatory, Kavalur

  1. Rahul Bar (Lead)
  2. Surendharnath S.
  3. Venkatesh S.

Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, Kodaikanal

  1. M. Rajalingam
  2. Chrisphin Karthick
  3. M. N. Anand
  4. K. R. Premkumar

Gauribidanur Radio Observatory, Gauribidanur

  1. C. Kathiravan

CREST, Hosakote

  1. Sreeramulu Nayak (lead)
  2. Alikhan Basheer (co-lead)
  3. T. Vishnu
  4. Bandari Srikanth
  5. Nayana Manokaran
  6. Kiran Wani

Former members:

  1. Sanjiv Gorka

Supporting Sections

  1. Arumugam Pitchai, Library Section
  2. Chinchu Mohanan, Website Committee

Student Volunteers

Members

  1. Kanan Virkar
  2. Abhisheka Patra

Former members

  1. Shivani Gupta
  2. Khushbu
  3. Reena Chaudhary
  4. Aratrika Dey
  5. Akhil Jaini
  6. Swastik Choubay

Last updated on February 10, 2026