Kanak Saha
Professor
Inter-University Centre
for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind,
Pune University campus
Pune- 411007, India
Tel: +91 20 2560 4100 extn 124
Email: kanak at iucaa.in
My primary research is focused on how galaxies are formed in the early universe and how they evolve to present-day ones.
A major part of this activity lies in the high-redshift universe when galaxies were just forming and for this, I utulize the UV telescope onboard AstroSat, the Hubble Space Telescope and several others. I also spend a significant amount of time in stuyding dynamics of galaxies using cluster computer simulation.
Postdoctoral and Visiting positions:
- Visiting Postdoc (2013), Geneva Observatory, Geneva
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2010), MPE, Munich
- Postdoctoral Fellow (2008), ASIAA, Taipei
- GSRA Fellow (2006), , STScI, Baltimore
- Visiting student (2007), RRI, Bangalore
Education:
- Ph.D. (Astrophysics) 2008, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- M.Sc.(Physics) 2001, Banaras Hindu University , Varanasi, India
- B.Sc. (Physics) 1998, Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
