Education (Degree, Institution Name):

Ph.D., IUCAA, Pune, India (granted by Univ. of Poona) - Physics (Cosmology), Sept. 1995
M.Sc. (PPPR), University of Poona, Pune, India - Physics, Feb. 1994
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India - Mechanical Engineering, May 1988

Research Interests/Areas:

Cosmology
- Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
- Large-Scale Structure in the Universe
- Primordial cosmological perturbations from Inflation
- Early Universe and applications of QFT in curved spacetime
Gravitational Wave (GW) Physics & Astronomy
- Lead roles in Indian observational programs in GW observations: direct (LIGO-India) and through CMB polarisation (CMB-Bharat)
- Stochastic GW background
- Simulation and modelling aspects of GW detectors (entering the field)

Career (Year, Position, Institution):

Oct.2009-Jun.2015:IUCAA as Scientist-G
Apr.2006-Sep.2009:IUCAA as Scientist-F
Apr.2003-Mar.2006:IUCAA as Scientist-E
Oct.2000-Mar.2003:IUCAA as Scientist-D

Awards, Honours & Major Work:

Fellow of International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, 2013
Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 2013
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 2018
Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, 2016: International award co-shared with authors of the Gravitational wave discovery paper
Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research, 2017 (shared with LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Fundacion Principe de Asturias, Spain
Gruber Cosmology Prize, 2016 (shared with LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Gruber Foundation
Hari Om prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for Space Science, PRL, Ahmedabad, Aug 2012
B. M. Birla Science Prize in Physics, 2006 (awarded Dec 31, 2007)
DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship Award, 2005-06, DST, India
INSA-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award for Physics, 2006, Elsevier
Buti Foundation Award for 2006, Indian Physics Association
N. S. Satyamurthy Award for Young Scientists, 2001, Indian Physics Association (awarded in 2003)
EGIDE Program Visitor (Embassy of France) to IAP, Paris, 2003
NSF Grant for Summer at Aspen Center for Physics, Colorado, USA, 1999
Postdoctoral Fellowship, CITA, Toronto, Canada (1995-98), KSU, USA (1998-2001)
Ravi Kumar Bhalla Award, 1994, Indian Physics Association
Certificate of Appreciation, 1994 – Rotary Club of Poona, Rotary International Dist: 3130, Rotary Club of Poona
Special EMCSC Scholarship for attending Erice School, 1992
Junior & Senior Research Fellowship, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India (First B.Tech. degree holder to be granted CSIR, JRF in India)