Keshav Aggarwal
Personal Details
| keshavagg1098@gmail.com | |
| Phone | +91 94586 66775 |
| Address | Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering, IIT Indore, Simrol, Indore 453552, India |
| Find me | Webpage, Google Scholar, ORCID, NASA-ADS, ResearchGate, LinkedIn |
Education
| Jul 2023 – May 2026 | Ph.D. Astronomy – DAASE, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore (thesis submitted May 2026)
Funding agency: Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship Collaborating agency: Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram Supervisor: Prof. Abhirup Datta Exploring space weather and its effect on planetary atmospheres using radio occultation |
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| Aug 2021 – Apr 2023 | M.Sc. Astronomy – DAASE, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore
Supervisor: Prof. Abhirup Datta Study of the solar corona using the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission |
| Jul 2018 – Jun 2021 | B.Sc. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics – Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut |
Research Positions
| Oct 2023 – Present | Ph.D. Student Visitor, Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (ISRO), Thiruvananthapuram |
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| Jul 2023 – May 2026 | Prime Minister’s Research Fellow, DAASE, IIT Indore |
Workshops, Schools, and Presentations
Achievements
| Dec 2025 | Recipient of the AGU Student Travel Grant for presenting a poster at AGU Fall Meeting 2025, New Orleans, USA |
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| Mar 2025 | Early Career Researcher Award for best poster at the 6th Indian Planetary Science Conference, IIT Roorkee |
| Oct 2023 | Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Government of India |
Internships
| Aug 2022 – Sep 2023 | Researcher in AI and Orbital Mechanics | HR Coordinator at ERETS Space London, London (remote)
Developed AI/ML and orbital mechanics algorithms for satellites. Handled hiring for the team. |
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| Feb 2022 – Aug 2022 | Data Analyst | Project Coordinator at Armstrong Space Australia, Melbourne (remote)
Built pipelines for acquiring and processing space debris data. Space debris removal by laser ablation. Catalogues of debris between 1 and 10 cm. |
Outreach, Service and Miscellaneous
| Sep 2024 | Volunteer, 8th Aditya-L1 Support Cell workshop, IIT Indore |
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| Aug 2024 | Volunteer, National Space Day celebrations organised by DAASE, IIT Indore |
| Mar 2024 | Volunteer, PMRF Symposium, IIT Indore |
| Feb 2024 | Contributed to the Venus mission white paper ‘Venus: the perfect laboratory for understanding interactions between space weather and planetary atmospheres’, submitted to ISRO |
| Oct 2023 | Organised astronomy outreach activities for 100 Hours of Astronomy (IAU) at IIT Indore |
| Feb 2023 | Organised astronomy outreach activities at Fluxus, the IIT Indore annual festival |
Technical Skills
| Languages | Python (NumPy, SciPy, Astropy, SunPy, Matplotlib), Jupyter |
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| Tools | NASA SPICE toolkit, Git, JWST data reduction pipelines |
| Data | Planetary radio science data from ISRO, JAXA and ESA missions |