Brief Bio-Data

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