Date of Birth: 23 April 1976
Membership of Professional bodies:
Employment
- Assistant Professor, NORDITA (January 2010 - Present)
- Leverhume trust post-doctoral fellow, Astronomy Unit, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London (February 2007 - January 2010). Mentor: Reza Tavakol
- Henri Poincare Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab. Casiopee, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur. Nice, France (February 2006 - January 2007). Mentor: Uriel Frisch
- Visiting Associate Professor, Lab. Casiopee, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur. Nice, France (January 2005 - January 2006).
- Project Assistant, CCMT, Department of Physics, IISc. (October 2004 - December 2004)
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Phd): Thesis submitted: September 2004, Degree received: March 2005 Center for Condensed Matter Theory (CCMT), Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Supervisor: Rahul Pandit Thesis: Studies of Static and Dynamic Multiscaling in Turbulence .
- Master's in (theoretical) physics: July 2000 Department of Physics, IISc, Bangalore Thesis: Temporal Multiscaling in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence: Numerical Studies of the Navier-Stokes and Gledzer-Ohkitani-Yamada Equations. Supervisors: Prof. Rahul Pandit
Research Interests
- Astrophysics, in particular astrophysical fluid dynamics.
- Turbulence including turbulent flows in complex fluids and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), Dynamo theory.
- Numerical Techniques, Large scale parallel simulations.
- Statistical Mechanics.
Publications
About 28 papers in peer-reviewed journals. A complete list is available here.
Awards
- Martin Forster medal for best PhD thesis in the division of physical and mathematical sciences in IISc.
- Senior and Junior Research Fellowship of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India.