About & curriculum vitae
Scientist.
Observer. Builder.
My path connects computer science, astronomical instrumentation, and solar physics - a combination that shapes how I approach both observations and models.
Appointments & education
Postdoctoral Research Fellow · MSCA Researcher
Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, University of Oslo, Norway
PhD · Astronomical Instrumentation / Solar Physics
Indian Institute of Astrophysics · Thesis: Probing Chromospheric Magnetic Field Through Multi-Line Spectropolarimetry · Supervisor: K. Nagaraju
MTech · Astronomical Instrumentation
University of Calcutta · Thesis: Single Shot Spectroscopic Design Aspects
BTech · Computer Science
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
Current work at UiO
Making realistic solar diagnostics practical.
At the Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, I am developing data-driven methods to make three-dimensional non-LTE inversions of the solar chromosphere more tractable. The work combines realistic radiative-MHD simulations, radiative transfer, and neural networks to extract magnetic and thermodynamic information from spectropolarimetric observations of lines such as Hα and Ca II 8542 Å, with applications to data from current and next-generation solar telescopes.
UiO project profile ↗Research interests
Technical practice
Scientific computing
Python, C/C++, data reduction, statistical analysis, visualization, numerical simulations, and peer-reviewed scientific writing.
Hands-on solar spectroscopy
Led practical sessions in spectroscopy, polarimetry, and data analysis at the Kodaikanal Winter School (2019-2023) and an ISRO-linked Aditya-L1 regional workshop.
Student supervision
Co-supervised a master’s thesis on detecting coronal mass ejections from K-coronagraph images using principal component analysis.
Selected presentations
European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting
Oral presentation: The Hα Line as a Probe of Chromospheric Magnetic Fields · Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Next Generation of Modelling and Observing Techniques for the Lower Solar Atmosphere
Oral presentation: The Hα Line as a Probe of Chromospheric Magnetic Fields · Royal Astronomical Society, London, UK.
Sun, Space Weather and Solar-Stellar Connections
Oral presentation: Unraveling the stratification of the chromospheric magnetic field using the Hα line.
Solar Polarization Workshop 10
Oral presentation on Hα Stokes V diagnostics, Kyoto University, Japan.