Appointments

  • Dunlap Postdoctoral FellowDunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto
  • Trottier Chair FellowDepartment of Physics and Trottier Space Institute, McGill University

Education

  • PhD, Astrophysics and CosmologyIndian Institute of Technology Indore
  • Master's, PhysicsUniversity of Burdwan
  • Bachelor's, PhysicsAsutosh College, University of Calcutta

Honors and awards

  • Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2026-2029
  • Brockhouse Prize from NSERC, 2024
  • Trottier Chair Fellowship, 2021-2026
  • Young Scientist Award, URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2021
  • DST INSPIRE Fellowship for doctoral research, 2016-2021
  • Scholarship for Higher Education, DST-INSPIRE, 2010-2015

Collaboration roles

  • CHIME: science lead for the first cosmological 21 cm auto-power spectrum detection; member of the HI intensity-mapping and pipeline groups.
  • CHORD: member of the calibration and intensity-mapping group and the HI galaxy survey group.
  • SKAO: member of the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn group and the Cosmology group; lead of the SKA-India “Akashganga” foreground-challenge team.

Community service

Referee for MNRAS, Astronomy & Astrophysics, the Open Journal of Astrophysics, and Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia; referee for the GMRT Time Allocation Committee.

The downloadable CV contains the full publication list, observing proposals, mentoring record, and complete talk history.