Curriculum vitae

Ph.D. in Astronomy (thesis submitted May 2026)

Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore

• Thesis: Exploring space weather and its effect on planetary atmospheres using radio occultation
• Supervisor: Prof. Abhirup Datta

M.Sc. in Astronomy

Indian Institute of Technology Indore

B.Sc. in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics

Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut

Student Visitor

Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (ISRO), Thiruvananthapuram

Prime Minister’s Research Fellow

DAASE, IIT Indore. Radio occultation studies of the solar wind, the interplanetary medium and the lunar plasma environment.

Member, JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team

Co-author on nine papers on WASP-39b, WASP-18b and WASP-43b.

AGU Student Grant

American Geophysical Union, for a poster at the AGU Fall Meeting 2025

Early Career Researcher Award, best poster

6th Indian Planetary Science Conference, IIT Roorkee

Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)

Ministry of Education, Government of India

Researcher, AI/ML and Orbital Mechanics

ERETS Space, London. Project head: Dr. Abhiram Jayan Nair.

• Member of the AI/ML team; built data processing pipelines.

Data Analyst and Management Intern

Armstrong Space, Australia. Project head: Abin Sharaf.

• Data analysis; managed a team of interns.

Club Head, Astronomy, Space Engineering and Technology (AsSET) Club

Public outreach: 100 Hours of Astronomy, National Space Day resources, school astronomy lab videos

Volunteer, Be Happier Soul

Event management.

Python (NumPy, SciPy, Astropy, SunPy, Matplotlib), Jupyter

NASA SPICE toolkit, Git, JWST data reduction pipelines

Planetary radio science data from ISRO, JAXA and ESA missions