IUCAA - Khagol # 129 - Oct 2022 - English

| KHAG L | No. 129 - OCTOBER 2022 | 11 Vaidehi S. Paliya completed his doctoral research on high-energy emissions fromactive galactic nuclei (AGN) at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) under the joint supervision of Dr. C. S. Stalin (IIA) and Dr. C. D. Ravikumar (university of Calicut) in 2016. He then moved to Clemson University, USA for his first postdoctoral position (March 2016-November 2018) where he also worked with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope collaboration. In November 2018, he joined the multi-messenger astronomy group at Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, DESY, Germany as a postdoctoral fellow and worked on the AGN jet- neutrino connection. Before joining IUCAA in April 2022, he worked as scientist-C at Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital duringDecember 2020-March 2022. Paliya's main research work focuses on understanding the relativistic jet phenomenon (launching, propagation, and termination) associated with AGN following a multi-wavelength approach and using observations fromboth ground- and space-based telescopes Welcome... Shasvath J. Kapadia joined IUCAA as an Assistant Professor in May 2022. He is a member of the LIGO- Virgo-Kagra collaboration that operates a network of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors and searches for gravitational-waves in detector data. His research interests include various aspects of gravitational-wave astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and data analysis. Before joining IUCAA, hewas a Simons prize postdoctoral fellow at ICTS-TIFR from 2019-2022. Prior to that, he was a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, from 2016-2019. He pursued his PhD at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA, from2010-2016. During his PhD, he interned at theMax Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany. Outside of academia, his interests include reading, watching cinema and theatre, running, swimming and basketball. Addition to IUCAA Core Faculty 1. Susanta Kumar Bisoi, Department of Physics & Astronomy, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha. 2. Sumanta Chakraborty, Indian Association for The Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata. 3. Chandrachur Chakraborty, Manipal Centre For Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka 4. Prasanta Kumar Das, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa. 5. Archana Dixit, Department of Mathematics, GLA University Mathura, Utter Pradesh. 6. Mayukh Raj Gangopadhyay, Thanu Padmanabhan Center for Cosmology & Science Popularization, SGT University, Gurgaon,Haryana. 7. Prabir Gharami, Departmentof Mathematics, Belda College, Belda, West Bengal. . 8. Chetana Jain, Department of Physics, Hansraj College, Delhi. 9. Nagaraja Kamsali, Department of Physics, Bangalore University, Karnataka. 10 . Arun Kenath, Department of Physics & Electronics, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka. 11. Newton Singh Kshetrimayum, Department of Physics, National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune. 12. Bharat Kumar, Department of Physics & Astronomy, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Odisha. 13. Tuhina Manna, St. XaviersCollege (Autonomous), Kolkata, West Bengal . 14. Manesh Michael, Department of Physics, Bharata Mata College, Kochi, Kerala. Visiting Associates selected with effect from 01 August 2022