Professional Experience


(1) March 1, 2024-Present: Assistant Professor I at ICSP, Kolkata

(2) August 25, 2022 - February 29, 2023: Scientist-C at Indian Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata.

(3) June 1, 2022 - August 22, 2022: Postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru.

(4) January 1, 2021 - May 2022: Independent researcher affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) while working from home in India.

(5) January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2020: Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Science and Technology of China.

(6) May 4, 2016 - November 3, 2017: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India.

                                                     Academic Qualification

(1) Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics (2016): Department of Physics, Kumaun University, Nainital, India.

(2) 2012 - Qualified Uttarakhand State Eligibility Test (U-SET) for lectureship at universities or colleges.

(3) 2009 - Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Physics with 68% from Kumaun University, Nainital, India.

(4) 2007 - Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Science with 65% from Kumaun University, Nainital, India.

(5) 2004 - Intermediate (Senior Secondary) with 75% from Govt. Inter College, Didihat, Pithoragarh, under the Board of Secondary Education, Uttarakhand, India.

(6) 2002 - Matriculation (or Secondary School Certificate (SSC)) with 60% from Govt. Inter College Chaubati, Pithoragarh, under the Board of Secondary Education, Uttarakhand, India.

                                       Professional Memberships:

     (1) Junior Member of the International Astronomical Union.

(2) Member (L 2313) of the Astronomical Society of India.

                                                           Some Recent Talks:
 
(1) Students from Bethune College Kolkata visited our IERCOO campus, ICSP, Sitapur, and I delivered a lecture on “The Milky Way Galaxy and life cycle of stars” on 23rd February 2023.

(2) "Study of Intermediate-age Open star Clusters" in 104-cm Sampurnanand Telescope Golden Jubilee Workshop, Role of meter class telescopes in modern-day astronomy." during October 17 - 19, 2022.

(3) "Study of open clusters using ground-based observations and Gaia Astrometry" in online Symposium at Indian Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata on 18th September 2022.”
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(4) "A Deep Investigation of Two Poorly Studied Open Clusters Haffner 22 and Melotte 71 in the Gaia era" in Gaia Symposium: DR3 and Beyond during 11-15 July 2022”

(5) "A deep study of an intermediate age open cluster SAI 35 (Juchert 20) using ground-based imaging and Gaia EDR3 astrometry" in the 40th
The Astronomical Society of India meeting was held at IIT Roorkee from 25-29 March 2022.

(6) "A comprehensive study of open cluster Haner 14 in Gaia Era" in the Online Summit on Astrophysics and Space Research-2021 on April
15, 2021. (Invited Talk)
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(7) "Multi-color photometry and Gaia astrometry of cluster NGC 1746" in the virtual meeting of NEP Conference 2020: Multi-Wavelength
Astronomy Collaboration Towards the New Era with Deep Survey Data" held in Taiwan during November 25-27, 2020.

(8) "The multicolor photometric and Gaia DR2 astrometric study of an intermediate age open cluster NGC 1348" in a virtual meeting of The
Gaia Symposium: DR2 and Beyond held at IIA, India, during 2-6 November 2020.