Employment :

• Indian Institute of Astrophysics: Bangalore, Karnataka
  1999-08-15 to present | Senior Professor (Theory)
• Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics: Pune, Maharashtra
  1997-08-15 to 1999-08-15 | Postdoctoral Fellow
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Urbana, IL
  1994-08-01 to 1997-06-01 | Research Associate (Physics)

Education and qualifications :

• Georgia State University: Atlanta, GA
  1990-09-01 to 1994-09-01 | PhD (Physics & Astronomy)
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay: Mumbai, MH
  1985-06-01 to 1989-06-01 | B. Tech (Engg. Physics)

Semester-long Graduate Courses :

I have taught courses at IIA, IISc (JAP), IUCAA, JN Planetarium (REAP), CMMACS, & Pondicherry University.

• 1. Stellar Structure and Evolution : August–December 2000
  2. High Energy Astrophysics : January–April 2006, January – April 2007.
  3. Astrophysical Concepts : August 2007, December 2008, September 2009, August 2010, August 2011.
  4. Fluid Mechanics and Plasma Physics : August –December 08, August -December 2019, August -January 2021
  5. Statistical Physics : February –April 2009, February –June 2010, September–October 2012.
  7. Classical Mechanics : September –December 2010, September – December 2011.
  7. General Relativity & Cosmology : January–April 2005, February –June 2010, February –June 2011., January–April 2017
  8. Numerical & Statistical Techniques : April –May 2010, April –May 2011, March –April 2015.
  9. Radiative Processes : August – December 2015.

Semester-long Undergraduate Courses :

• 10. Mathematical Physics : September 2005–March 2006, September 2007-March 2008.
  11. Classical Mechanics : December 2006–March 2007., August 2011–March 12, August 2017 - February 2018
  12. Electrodynamics : December 2009–March 2010, August 2012–March 2013
  13. Quantum Mechanics: August 2019–March 2020, August 2020–March 2021

MSc Thesis students :

Amruth B. R (BTech., BITS, Pilani); Nesar S. R. (BITS Pilani, Goa Campus). Le'na Arthur (ENSTA, Paris)

B. S. Thesis students:

Shashank Dattathri (IISc); B. J. Arav (IISc)

Post-doctoral fellows :

• 2011 –2012 Rajesh Gopal (PhD from RRI): Cosmology
• 2016 –2019 Kanhaiya Pandey (PhD from RRI): Cosmology
• 2018 Bari Maqbool (PhD from University of Kashmir): Accretion Physics

PhD students :

• 2014 PhD Thesis of Prashanth Mohan on the topic of Spin and mass of black holes and their observational signatures since August 2009. Completed April 2014.
• 2015 Avijeet Prasad on topic of Force free fields and Magnetic Helicity towards PhD Thesis project under IIA-IGNOU I-PhD programme. Supervised his Master’s Thesis on Helicity constraints on Dynamo in 2010, completed PhD. March 2015.
• 2018 T. Mageshwaran on the topic of Physics of tidal disruption events by black holes, since 2013; completed July 2018.
• 2020 Samrat Sen on the topic of Twisted magnetic configurations in Sun, PhD completed August 2020.
• 2020 Dipanweeta Bhattacharyya on the topic of Evolution of black holes and the M • − σ relation, PhD completed October 2020.
• 2021 Prerna Rana on the topic of Relativistic Dynamics in Black hole systems, PhD completed January 2021.