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Academic Positions Held


Exploration Prize Postdoctoral Fellow School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University Collaborators: Prof. Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Prof. Rogier Windhorst, Prof. Allison Noble
August 2025 – Present
Postdoctoral Fellow Johns Hopkins University Collaborators: Prof. Timothy Heckman & Dr. Alaina Henry
September 2022 – July 2025
Osterbrock Scholar University of California, Santa Cruz Advisor: Prof. Sandra Faber & Prof. Robert Williams
September 2019 – June 2022
Summer Research Fellow Harish Chandra Research Institute Advisor: Prof. Tapash Kumar Das
2015

Education


University of California, Santa Cruz Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics Advisor: Prof. Kevin Bundy; Thesis: Star formation suppression and feedback in nearby galaxies
2016 – 2022
Presidency University M.Sc. in Physics Advisor: Prof. Durgesh Tripathi; Thesis: Characteristics of Chromospheric Spectral Line in Solar Flares
2014 – 2016
Presidency University B.Sc. in Physics Project Supervisor: Prof. Ritaban Chatterjee; Project: Probing the jets of blazars using the temporal symmetry of their multiwavelength outbursts
2011 – 2014

Other Visiting Positions


Visiting Scientist Space Telescope Science Institute Collaborators: Dr. Alaina Henry, Dr. Kate Rowlands, Dr. Katherine Alatalo
September 2022 – July 2025
Visiting Scientist Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute Collaborators: Prof. Rachel Somerville & Prof. Chris Hayward
September 2021

Awards and Honors


Exploration Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University Independent postdoctoral fellowship awarded across astrophysics, cosmology, planetary science, geology, and Earth sciences. Exploration Fellows
2025
Space Telescope Science Institute Prize Fellowship Four-year independent fellowship offer (declined)
2022
UC Dissertation Year Chancellor’s Fellowship
Chancellor’s Fellows
2021
AAS National Osterbrock Leadership Program Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
AAS NOLP page
2019–2022
Summer Research Fellowship, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India
2015
INSPIRE Scholarship, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India
2011–2016

Financial Grants and Fellowships


Exploration Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship
2025
Hubble Space Telescope observing-program grants PI and Co-I programs across Cycles 30–33.
2023–2025
James Webb Space Telescope observing-program grants Programs across Cycles 3–4.
2024–2025
National Science Foundation grant Red geysers and the suppression of star formation.
2018
Conference organization funds, STScI Spring Symposium “Recipes to Regulate Star Formation at All Scales: From the Nearby Universe to the First Galaxies.”
2024
UC Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship
2021
AAS National Osterbrock Leadership Program Fellowship
2019–2022

Observing Telescope Time


Obtained 300+ hrs space-based (HST+JWST+XRISM) telescopes, 30+ hrs ground-based telescope time.

PI / deputy-PI / science-PI programs

  • HST: COS, UV/optical imaging and archival spectroscopy
  • Magellan: Baade/FIRE; Clay/LLAMAS
  • Keck: OSIRIS
  • MMT: Binospec
  • GMRT: radio continuum observations
  • LBT: optical spectroscopy/imaging programs
  • ALMA: millimeter/submillimeter observations
  • APEX: millimeter observations

Co-I / collaborative programs

  • JWST: MIRI, NIRSpec, and NIRCam programs
  • HST: archival UV/optical spectroscopy programs
  • VLT: ERIS
  • Keck: OSIRIS, KCWI
  • GMRT: radio-mode feedback programs
  • GBT: CO(1–0) observations
  • XRISM: X-ray spectroscopy of radio-mode feedback

Have questions about my research or Astronomy in general? Feel free to Email Me

namratar@asu.edu
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