Current position

2025–Assistant Professor, Physics, School of Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru

Academic background

2020PhD, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2016MSc (Physics), IIT Bhubaneswar, India
2014BSc (Hons) Physics, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, India

Work experience

2021–2025DST-INSPIRE Faculty, IISc Bangalore, India
2021CV Raman Postdoctoral Fellow, IISc Bangalore, India
2019Visiting student, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2014Summer Research Fellow (Indian Academy of Sciences), Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India

Teaching

2025–Courses at Azim Premji University; see Teaching
2022Part of the Cosmology course at IISc Bengaluru: a brief introduction to the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
2016–2020Teaching assistant during PhD for Classical Mechanics, Mathematical Methods and Statistical Mechanics

Talks and posters

2026Pint of View Club, Bengaluru; Astronomy on Tap, Bengaluru
2025Pint of Science India, Bengaluru; Physics Teachers Training Programme, Azim Premji University
2024Kashiwa-no-ha Dark Matter and Cosmology Symposium, Kavli IPMU, Japan; Cosmo '24, Kyoto University, Japan; Seminars at IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Palakkad
2023Cosmology seminar, University of Geneva
2022IAGRG 32, IISER Kolkata; 10th KIAS Workshop on Cosmology and Structure Formation, Seoul; Astronomical Society of India Meeting, IIT Roorkee; THEP Seminar, IIT Bombay
2019ITP Heidelberg; IUCAA Pune; TIFR Mumbai; CosmoGold, IAP Paris; University of Zurich; Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh; Imperial College London; DAMTP Cambridge; “Cosmology – The Next Decade”, ICTS Bangalore
2018Swiss Cosmology Days, CERN, Geneva; Summer School on Cosmology, ICTP, Trieste

Awards

2023DAAD Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists
2016Institute Silver Medal for the highest CGPA in the MSc Physics batch 2014–2016, IIT Bhubaneswar
2014Summer Research Fellowship, Indian Academy of Sciences

Memberships

2023Life Member, Astronomical Society of India
2023Life Member, Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation

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