Training
A beginning at IIA
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru—where my training in astronomy, solar physics, and instrumentation began.
Academic memories
Places, people
& instruments.
A visual record of the classrooms, observatories, collaborations, and milestones that have shaped my journey in solar physics.
2016—present
Not a travel diary, but a scientific one: moments of learning, building, observing, presenting, and working alongside the people who made the journey possible.
Laboratory
Learning through optics
Laboratory experiments in Kolkata: translating optical principles into alignment, measurement, and working systems.
Observatory
Kodaikanal Tower Tunnel Telescope
The observing facility that became central to my doctoral work in multi-line solar spectropolarimetry.
Instrumentation
Building at the telescope
Instrument work at the tunnel telescope—where optical design, control, calibration, and observing meet.
Solar physics
IRSOL, Switzerland
An encounter with a telescope built for precision solar spectropolarimetry during the 2019 SOLARNET school.
School · 2019
A scientific community
The SOLARNET school in Lugano brought together students and researchers working on polarized light from the Sun.
Research visit
Ondřejov Observatory
A research visit in the Czech Republic, among instruments that carry a long history of solar and radio astronomy.
Conference · 2022
Solar Polarization Workshop
Meeting the international solar-polarization community in Japan in 2022.
Mentorship · 2024
A doctoral milestone
With my PhD supervisor, Dr K. Nagaraju, after completing the thesis journey.
PhD · 2024
The thesis
Probing Chromospheric Magnetic Field Through Multi-Line Spectropolarimetry, submitted to the University of Calcutta in 2024.