Professor Annapurni Subramaniam is the Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore.
She has more than three decades of research experience and has published about 175 research publications in topics such as star clusters, stellar populations, galaxies, and ultraviolet astronomy. She has trained a large number of students in various projects and has guided 15 students for their Ph.D.s, and several more have collaborated with her for their thesis work. She was the calibration scientist for the Ultra-violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on-board AstroSat and carried out the in-orbit performance verification phase. She has contributed to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), which is being built by an international consortium with India as a partner.
She is the Principal Investigator of the proposed next generation UV-Optical space telescope (INSIST), leveraging on the experience gained from AstroSat and UVIT.
Star clusters, Classical Be stars, Young stellar Objects, Blue straggler stars, Magellanic Clouds, nearby galaxies, UV astronomy
Director
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
2nd Block, Koramangala
Bengaluru 560 034, India
Phone : +91 80 2553 0583 (O)
Fax : +91 80 2553 4019
E-mail : diriia @iiap. res.in, purni @iiap.res .in
Director's Secretariat/Office
Manish Soni / Muralidhara S V
Phone : +91 80 2553 0583, 2254 1354, 2254 1254
Email : directorsecretary @iiap.res. in
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Directors of Kodaikanal Observatory : 1899 - 1971
Directors of Madras Observatory : 1786 - 1899