Curriculum Vitae
Senior Lecturer in Extragalactic Astrophysics,
Astrophysics and Space Research Group
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2011- | Mark Burke | PhD Thesis at U Birmingham Low mass X-ray binaries in nearby galaxies |