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IIA Bengaluru

GC 1 - Sun & Solar System IIA Bengaluru

Rajaguru
`S P Rajaguru
Professor
Chair, Group Committee - I
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
rajaguru
1261
Solar and Stellar Physics: helioseismology, magnetism, MHD simulations, exo-planet host stars.
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Ravindra
`B Ravindra
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
ravindra
1328
Solar Physics, Solar Photosphere, Magnetic Field Measurements, Optical Instrumentation
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`C Kathiravan
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
kathir
1222
Jayant
`Jayant Joshi
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
jayant.joshi
1213
Solar Magnetism, Spectropolarimetry, Solar Chormospheric dynamics
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22629
`K Sasikumar Raja
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
sasikumar.raja
1233
Solar Physics, Solar Radio Bursts, Solar Wind, Radio Instrumentation and Space Instrumentation
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Nagaraju
`Nagaraju K
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
nagarajuk
1214
Solar Magnetism, Solar Instrumentation, Spectropolarimetry
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Panditi
`Panditi Vemareddy
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
vemareddy
1229
Observations and Modeling of Solar activity, MHD Simulations, Space-Weather
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Piyali
`Piyali Chatterjee
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
piyali.chatterjee
1242
Solar magnetohydrodynamics, MHD waves, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, solar dynamo theory.
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nophoto
`R Ramesh
Senior Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
ramesh
1312
Ravi_photo
`Ravinder Kumar Banyal
Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
banyal
1272
Astronomy instrumentation, exoplanet science, adaptive optics
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Shantikumar
`Shantikumar Singh Ningombam
Scientist E
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
shanti
1268
Solar variability on earth-radiation budget and studies of aerosol optical and radiative properties
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Tanmoy
`Tanmoy Samanta
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
tanmoy.samanta
1263
Sun, Solar Atmosphere, Space Weather
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wageesh
`Wageesh Mishra
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
wageesh.mishra
1287
CMEs, Solar Wind, Space Weather, and Solar-type Stars
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GC 2 - Stars, ISM and Galaxies IIA Bengaluru

Annapurni
`Annapurni Subramaniam
Senior Professor
Director IIA
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
purni
1318
Star clusters, Blue stragglers, Magellanic Clouds, Nearby galaxies, UV astronomy
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Sivarani
`Sivarani Thirupathi
Professor
Dean, Faculty of Sciences.
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
sivarani
1258,1230
Stellar abundances and galactic archeology, astronomical instrumentation and exoplanet studies
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Gajendra
`Gajendra Pandey
Professor
Chair, Group Committee - II
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
pandey
1273
stellar atmospheres, stellar spectroscopy, chemical abundances
Archana
`Archana Soam
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
archana.soam
1274
Star formation, Magnetic fields, gas kinematics, and dust properties of the ISM
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Arun Surya
`Arun Surya
Scientist D
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
arun.surya
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bala_sudhakara
`Bala Sudhakara Reddy Arumalla
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
balasudhakara.arumalla
1316
Bharat
`Bharat Kumar Yerra
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
bharat.yerra
1276
Stellar evolution, Stellar abundances, Stellar spectroscopy
Muthumariappan
`C Muthumariappan
Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
muthu
1378
Evolved stars, Planetary Nebulae, Astrophysical dust
Stalin
`C S Stalin
Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
stalin
1264
Time domain astronomy, Active galactic nuclei, accretion disk, relativistic jets, outflows
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Sahu
`D K Sahu
Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
dks
1488
Photometry and Spectroscopy of Astronomical Transients
Firoza
`Firoza K Sutaria
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
fsutaria
1429
Supernovae and their remnants, Planetary Nebulae, Neutron Stars, Nuclear Astrohysics, Exoplanets.
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maheshwar
`Maheswar Gopinathan
Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
maheswar.g
1331
Galactic Star Forming Regions/Young Stellar Objects
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`Padmakar Singh Parihar
Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
psp
1276
Yong Steller Objects, Astronomical Instrumentation, Site Survey
Joshi
`Ravi Joshi
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
ravi.joshi
1277
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rekhesh
`Rekhesh Mohan
Scientist D
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
reks
1438
UV Instrumentation, Space missions, Interstellar medium
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Rengaswamy
`Rengaswamy Sridharan
Scientist E
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
sridharan.r
1335,1430
High Resolution Imaging, Spectroscopy & Instrumentation
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muneers
`S Muneer
Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
muneers
4123
Stellar spectroscopy, polarimetry
Smitha
`Smitha Subramanian
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
smitha.subramanian
1286
Extragalactic Astronomy
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Sudhanshu_Barway
`Sudhanshu Barway
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
sudhanshu.barway
1386
Extra-galactic Astronomy, Observational UV/Optical/IR Astronomy, Data Science
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USKamath
`Umanath S Kamath
Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
uskamath
1447
Stellar photometry and spectroscopy, Instrumentation
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vivekm
`Vivek M
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
vivek.m
1282
Extragalactic astronomy, Active Galactic Nuclei
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GC 3 - Theoretical Astrophysics IIA Bengaluru

Pravabati
`Pravabati Chingangbam
Professor
GC III Chairperson
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
prava
1285
Cosmology
Anusha
`Anusha Bhasari L S
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
anusha.ls
1344
Radiative Transfer, Scattering, polarization, numerical methods, Stellar atmosphere
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Arka Prabha Sarangi
`Arkaprabha Sarangi
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
arkaprabha.sarangi
1225
Expertise: Cosmic dust, Supernovae, IR astronomy, JWST, stellar winds, AGN
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arun
`Arun Mangalam
Senior Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
mangalam
1205
Cosmic Magnetic fields, Stellar Dynamics, Relativistic and High energy Astrophysics
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Sampoorna
`M Sampoorna
Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
sampoorna
1353
Polarized Radiative Transfer, Spectropolarimetry – theory and modeling, Atom-radiation interaction
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Sanved
`Sanved Kolekar
Assistant Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
sanved.kolekar
1212
Gravitation, Black hole physics, QFT in curved spacetime
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Sharanya
`Sharanya Sur
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
sharanya.sur
1291
Astrophysical Turbulence and Magnetic fields, Magnetic fields in galaxies and galaxy clusters
subinoy
`Subinoy Das
Associate Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
subinoy
1324
Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics
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Others IIA Bengaluru

nophoto
`Jagdev Singh
Consultant
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
jsingh
Aditya-L1/VELC
Niruj
`Niruj Mohan Ramanujam
Scientist E
Head, SCOPE
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
niruj.mohan
1269
Karthick
`Chrisphin Karthick
Scientist C
Deputy Head, SCOPE
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
chrisphin.karthick
1332
Public Outreach and Education, Positional Astronomy & Celestial Mechanics

Post Doctoral Fellows IIA Bengaluru

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`Abhijit Kayal
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
abhijit.kayal
nophoto
`Aditya K
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
aditya.k
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`Alik Panja
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
alik.panja
Anwesh Mishra
`Anwesh Kumar Mishra
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
anwesh.mishra
Optical/IR Instrumentation, Variable stars
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Arun
`Arun Roy
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
arun.roy
4568
Young Stellar Objects, Triggered Star Formation, Astrochemistry
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Arvind
`Arvind Balasubramanian
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
arvind.balasubramanian
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deepake
`Deepak Eappachen
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
deepak.eappachen
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nophoto
`Labanya Kumar Guha
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
nophoto
`Naveen Jingade
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
naveen.jingade
nophoto
`Neeraj Kumari
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
neeraj.kumari
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`Pawan Kumar
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
nophoto
`Sagarika Tripathy
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
sagarika.tripathy
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`Suvedha Suresh Naik
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
suvedha.naik
National Post Doctoral Fellow (NPDF)
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`Vipin Kumar Sharma
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
nophoto
`Mridweeka Singh
National Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
mridweeka.singh
National PDF
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`Prerana Biswas
Research Associate - I
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
prerana.biswas
DST/SERB Project

Visiting Professors/Scientists IIA Bengaluru

Anupama
`G C Anupama
INSA Senior Scientist
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
gca
1344
Time Domain Astronomy (Fast transients, Supernovae, Novae)
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Jayant Murthy
`Jayant Murthy
Honorary Professor
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
murthy
1263
Interstellar medium and dust, UV Astronomy, Space Missions
das
`Mousumi Das
DST/WIDUSHI Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
mousumi
Extragalactic Astronomy
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Santanu
`Santanu Mondal
Ramanujan Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
santanu.mondal
1267
Accretion-ejection around black holes, AGN variability, Numerical simulation, Fermi Bubbles
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IMG_20240614_162326
`Pavan D Gramapurohit
DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
pavan.gramapurohit
1259
Earth, Mars and Venus Upper atmosphere and Ionosphere, Planetary Magnetic fields, Space weather
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Debika Chowdhury
`Debika Chowdhury
DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
debika.chowdhury
Gravitational waves, inflation, primordial non-Gaussianities, primordial magnetic fields, early-universe cosmology.
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Hema
`Hema B P
DST Woman Scientist
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
hema.bp
1305
nophoto
`Deepangkar Sarkar
Project Scientist - I
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
NLST
nophoto
`Manjunath Hegde
Visiting Scientist
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
manjunath
nophoto
`Prajwel P J
Project Scientist - I
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
prajwel.joseph
AstroSat - UVIT
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`Ramya Sethuram
Project Senior Scientist
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
ramyas.itcc
India-TMT
nophoto
`Shubha B S
Visiting Scientist
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
COSMOS Project
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`V MUTHUPRIYAL
Project Scientist
ACADEMIC
IIA Bengaluru
muthu.priyal
Data pipeline development for VELC.
Telephone: 91 (04542) 246306
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Telephone: 91 (0417465) 222, 225
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VBO Kavalur

Post Doctoral Fellows VBO Kavalur

GB
`Gourav Banerjee
Post Doctoral Fellow
ACADEMIC
VBO Kavalur
gourav.banerjee
Telephone:
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IAO Leh

GC 2 - Stars, ISM and Galaxies IAO Leh

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`Namgyal Dorjey
Scientist C
ACADEMIC
IAO Leh
namgyal
9419219761