Curriculum Vitae
Currently:
Director
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Ganeshkhind, Post Bag 4, Puné 411 007, INDIA
Tel: +91 20 2560 4100
Fax:
+91 20 2560 4699
E-mail: somak @ iucaa.in
http://www.iucaa.in/~somak
Also
Visiting Researcher
Astrophysics and Space Research Group
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of
Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
2012-2015 |
Dean of the Faculty of Physical and
Mathematical Sciences, and Head, Department of Physics, Presidency University, Kolkata, India |
2000-13 |
Faculty, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Birmingham, UK |
2007 (sabbatical) | Visiting Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA, USA |
1995-2000 | Faculty, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India |
1995 | Visiting Fellow (Royal Society), Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK |
1993-1995 | AXAF Science Center (now Chandra Science
Center) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA, USA & Tutor in Astrophysics, Lowell House, Harvard University |
1991-1993 | Smithsonian Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA, USA. |
1989-1991 | SERC Research Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK; Research Fellow, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge |
1986-90 | Ph.D., Astrophysics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK Thesis : Gravity, Galaxies and the Great Attractor Survey Supervisor : Professor D. Lynden-Bell FRS |
1984-86 | B.A., Physics, Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK |
1980-83 | B.Sc. (Hons), Physics, Presidency College, University of Calcutta, India |
1986-89 | Isaac Newton Studentship, University of Cambridge |
1984-86 | Inlaks Scholarship, Inlaks Foundation,, for University of Oxford |
1981-84 | Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search Scholarship, India |
1978-81 | National Talent Search Scholarship, India |
1988 | J. T. Knight Essay Prize, University of Cambridge |
1985 | Douglas Sladen Essay Prize, Trinity College, Oxford. |
1982 | Presidency College Gold Medal, University of Calcutta |
1996-00 | Tarun Deep Saini | PhD Thesis at IUCAA, Pune Cosmology with Supernovae and Gravitational Lensing |
2001-06 | Trevor Miles | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham The evolution of groups of galaxies |
2002-06 | Scott Porter | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham The properties of galaxies in Supercluster filaments |
2004-07 | Juan Carlos Cuevas Tello | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham (School of Computer
Science) (jointly supervised with Dr Peter Tino) Estimating Time Delays between Irregularly Sampled Time Series |
2003-07 | Rowan Temple | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham X-ray observations of galaxies and galaxy clusters |
2005-09 | Ali Dariush | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham Galaxy groups from observations and simulations |
2006-10 | Walter del Pozzo | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham Black holes, galaxy clusters, gravitational waves |
2006-11 | Smriti Mahajan | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham Star formation and environment of galaxies |
2009-14 | Matthew Lazell | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham Investigating Active Galactic Nuclei with low-frequency radio observations |
2011-13 | Mark Burke | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham Low mass X-ray binaries in nearby galaxies |
2010-13 | Shereen Fouad | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham (School of Computer
Science) (jointly supervised with Dr Peter Tino) Hidden Learning in Prototype based models with Astronomical applications |
2010-14 | Konstantinos Kolokythas | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham Radiogalaxies in galaxy groups |
2015- |
Ruchika Seth |
PhD Thesis at IUCAA, Pune |