Curriculum Vitae

Somak Raychaudhury

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

List of Publications

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Previous Positions:

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

Education:

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

Scholarships:

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

Prizes:

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

Supervision of PhD theses:

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