My research achievements has been recently recognized by the prestigious START grant in the year 2016, awarded to young researchers of all academic disciplines in Poland by Foundation for Polish Science or Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej (FNP).
Before joining NCAC, I did my PhD under A. R. Rao in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. My thesis titled, "Spectral and Timing Analysis of the Prompt Emission of Gamma Ray Bursts", received the Justice Oak outstanding thesis award by Astronomical Society of India (ASI) in 2016.
I am also associated with the Indian multi-wavelength mission, Astrosat that was successfully launched on 28 September 2015. I am a team member of the hard X-ray Imaging instrument, namely Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager or CZTI (PI: A. R. Rao, TIFR) of Astrosat. I developed IDL scripts to analyze the laboratory data of the CZTI and Charge Particle Monitor (CPM) of the mission. More details and news can be found here and here.
Currently, I am involved in a number of projects related to both GRBs and XRBs. I am also involved in analysis of Astrosat data of GRBs (lead role) detected by the CZTI and XRBs detected by several instruments of Astrosat.
About Me
I am a postdoctoral fellow of Astrophysics at Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC), Warsaw, Poland. My research is mainly focused on high energy astrophysical phenomena. The high energy sky is ever changing and presents us with the most exotic and most violent astrophysical events like, gamma-ray bursts (GRB), X-ray outbursts from galactic black holes and neutron stars, powerful jets from active galaxies, tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes, and so on. The study of these phenomena provides a wonderful opportunity to test various physics theories in extreme conditions, which are impossible to reproduce in our laboratories. These transient events mainly produce X-ray and gamma-ray photons which unfortunately (or fortunately!) are absorbed in the atmosphere around us. Therefore, we need our detectors to be flown in space based satellites above earth's atmosphere in order to study these events. With various collaborators in my current host institute and around the globe, I am involved in understanding some of these spectacular phenomena. More specifically, my research is focused on two main topics: gamma-ray burst (GRB) and X-ray Binary (XRB). Please see here for more detail.