Curriculum Vitae - Somak Raychaudhury

Curriculum Vitae

Somak Raychaudhury

Currently: Professor and Head, Department of Physics
Presidency University
86/1 College Street
Kolkata (Calcutta) 700 073, India
Tel: +91 33 2241 1977 Mob: +91 98369 77299
E-mail: somak @ presiuniv.ac.in
http://www.presiuniv.ac.in/web/

Also affiliated to:
Astrophysics and Space Research Group
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

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Previous Positions:

2007	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 (Calibration Group, High Resolution Camera), 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-	Matthew Lazell	PhD Thesis at U Birmingham Radio properties of galaxy groups and clusters; Machine learning methods in Astronomy
2011-13	Mark Burke	PhD Thesis at U Birmingham Low mass X-ray binaries in nearby galaxies
2010-	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-	Konstantinos Kolokythas	PhD Thesis at U Birmingham Radiogalaxies in galaxy groups

Public Outreach:

In charge of Public Outreach activities, Astrophysics an Space Research Group, University of Birmingham, 2003-; Also Einstein Ambassador, School of Physics and Astronomy
In charge of IUCAA's Science Popularization activities, 1996-2000
Elected member of Executive Council, Astronomical Society of India, 1997-2000; also Chairman, Public Outreach Committee.

E-mail somak @ presiuniv.ac.in