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Hi, I am Girjesh Gupta, recently completed my Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Astrophysics as a part of Joint Astronomy and Astrophysics Program of Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. My research advisor is Prof. Dipankar Banerjee in Solar Physics
group at IIA. My research topics include the study of Waves in solar atmosphere and its role in acceleration of fast/slow solar wind and in heating of solar corona, Solar Magnetohydrodynamics, Spectroscopy, Diagnostics of the solar atmosphere with space based data.
Background:
My home place is
Mulund in city of Mumbai of Maharastra state, India. I have
completed my school education upto 10th class in mulund and 10+2 in Bhandup. In 2003, I had finished my B.Sc. from Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College, Ghatkopar affiliated to Mumbai University. I have completed my Master's degree in Physics from Department of Physics, IIT, Bombay in the year 2005. After that I moved to Bangalore to do my Ph.D. in the field of Astrophysics in August 2005.
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2011 |
Ph. D., Physics, IIA/IISc, Bangalore |
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2005 |
M. Sc., Physics, IIT, Bombay |
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2003 |
B. Sc., Physics, Mumbai University |
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2000 |
HSC, Science, Mumbai Board |
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1997 |
SSC, Mumbai Board |
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Academic Fellowships and Awards:
- Best poster presentation in meeting of Astronomical Society of
India 2009 in Sun and Solar System discipline.
- IIA Scholarship towards Ph.D, July 2006-continued.
- IISc Scholarship towards Ph.D, August 2005-June 2006.
- Awarded Junior Research Fellowship in Physics by University Grant
Commission (NET-JRF) in 2005.
- Qualified in GATE-2005 in Physics with all India rank 13th.
- Qualified in JEST-2005 in Physics with percentile 97.24 %.
- Qualified in State Level Eligibility Test of Maharastra State for
lecturership (SLET) in 2004.
Professional Visits:
- Max Planck Institute of
Solar System Research, Lindau, Germany (February-2011).
- Max Planck Institute of
Solar System Research, Lindau, Germany (January-2009) under the DAAD-DST joint
project scheme.
- Armagh observatory, North Ireland, UK (April-2008) under the Royal
Society-British Council joint project scheme.
- Max Planck Institute of Solar System Research, Lindau, Germany
(September-2007) under the DAAD-DST joint project scheme.
Conferences:
- Poster presentation in the Space Climate Symposium 4, 16-21 January, 2011, Goa,
India.
- Oral presentation in the 13th Young Astronomer's Meeting, 3-5 September, 2010,
Physical research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India.
- Oral presentations in the 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 18-25 July, 2010, Bremen,
Germany.
- Oral presentations in the 7th Annual Meeting of AOGS, 5-9 July, 2010, Hyderabad, India.
- Oral presentation in the Young Astronomer's Meeting 2009, Indian
Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 14-16 March 2009.
- Poster presentation in the Meeting of Astronomical Society of
India 2009, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, 18-20 February
2009.
- Poster presentation in the Magnetic Coupling between the Interior
and the Atmosphere of the Sun, Indian Institute of Astrophysics,
Bangalore, 2-5 December 2008.
- Attended The RAS National Astronomy Meeting 2008,Queen's
University, Belfast, 31 March - 4 April 2008.
- Attended National Symposium on Gamma Ray Astronomy, Indian
Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, 23-24 November 2007.
- Attended the Meeting of Astronomical Society of India 2007,
Osmania University, Hyderabad, 7-9 February 2007.
- Attended the Young Astronomer's Meeting 2007, Indian Institute of
Astrophysics, Bangalore, 3-5 January 2007.
Miscellaneous:
- Tee seminar at Max Planck Institute of Solar System Research, Lindau, Germany,
February 23, 2011.
- Oral Presentation in In-House Scientific Meeting, IIA, April 09, 2010.
- Attended the Heliophysics
Summer School at UCAR, Boulder in July 2009.
- Attended the Solar Physics Summer School at National Solar
Observatory, New Mexico in June 2009.
- Oral Presentation in In-House Scientific Meeting, IIA on April
17, 2009.
- Attended the winter school on Solar Physics at Kodaikanal
Observatory in Dec 2006.
- Attended the summer school on Radio Astrophysics at National
Center for RadioAstrophysics in May 2006.
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