FACULTY MEMBERS

Prof. Dr. Supratik Pal , Professor

LONG TERM MEMBERS

Dr. Amit Dutta Banik, DST INSPIRE Faculty (2021 – Present)

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Dr. Tanima Duary, formerly PhD IISER Kolkata (2025 - Present)

Jointly with: Profs. Somasri Sen, Md. Wali Hossain, Anjan Ananda Sen, JMI, New Delhi

Dr. Md. Riajul Haque, formerly NPDF IIT Madras (2024 – Present)

Dr. Bhaswati Mandal, formerly PhD IACS Kolkata

DST WISE PDF (2024 - Present)

Dr. Biswajit Das, formerly PhD Visva-Bharati

CSIR Research Associate (2024 - Present)

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Ankit Mandal, formerly MSc IISER Kolkata (2025 – Present)

Thesis title : TBD

Jointly with: Profs. Somasri Sen, Md. Wali Hossain, Anjan Ananda Sen, JMI, New Delhi

Setabuddin, formerly MSc Presidency University, Kolkata (2024 - Present)

Thesis title : TBD

Co-supervisor: Dr. Ratna Koley, Presidency University

Arko Bhaumik, formerly MSc IACS, Kolkata (2021 - Present)

Thesis title : Origins, Observable Signatures, and Possible Interplay of Primordial Magnetic Fields and Primordial Non-Gaussianities

Debarun Paul, formerly MSc RKMVERI, Belur (2020 – Present)

Thesis title : Revisiting Dark Matter in the Light of Present and Upcoming Observations

Rahul Shah, formerly MSc IACS, Kolkata (2020 – Present)

Thesis title : Tensions and Anomalies in the Age of Precision Cosmology

Sourav Pal, formerly MSc Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2020 - Present)

Thesis title : Cosmological Fluid Models from Standard and Alternative Approaches

ALUMNI

Dr. Purba Mukherjee, Research Associate (2022 – 2024)

Formerly PhD IISER Kolkata

Next affiliation : NPDF, CTP-JMI, New Delhi → KASI, South Korea

Dr. Rickmoy Samanta, DST INSPIRE Faculty (2020 – 2023)

Formerly at TIFR, Barl Ilan & Tel Aviv

Next affiliation : Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad

Dr. Arindam Chatterjee, DST INSPIRE Faculty (2015 – 2019)

Formerly at Uni Bonn & HRI

Next affiliation : Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR

Dr. Ujjaini Alam, DST Young Scientist (2015 – 2018)

Formerly at IUCAA, ICTP, LANL, IRAP

Next affiliation : Data Scientist, ThoughtWorks, Pune

Dr. Moumita Das, Postdoctoral Fellow (2013 – 2014)

Formerly PhD & Postdoc PRL Ahmedabad

Antara Dey, formerly MSc Calcutta University, Kolkata (2017 - 2024)

Thesis title : Probing Dark Matter and Neutrinos in Reionization and Post-Reionization Epochs

Thesis submitted: Dec 2024

Next affiliation : Postdoc, IOP Bhubaneswar

Debabrata Chandra, formerly MSc IIT Delhi (2013 – 2024)

Thesis title : Exploring primordial universe using present and future observations

Thesis submitted: Nov 2024

Next affiliation : Postdoc, IMSc Chennai

Dr. Tony Pinhero, Doctoral Student (2013 – 2022)

Formerly MSc Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala

Thesis title : Cosmological Attractor Scenario in Inflation

Next affiliation : Assistant Professor, Mar Thoma College, Kerala

Dr. Arnab Paul, Doctoral Student (2015 – 2021)

Formerly MSc Presidency University, Kolkata

Thesis title : Dark Matter and Neutrinos in Cosmology

Next affiliation : Postdoc, IACS Kolkata → CEFIPRA Postdoc, IIT Madras

Dr. Abhishek Naskar, Doctoral Student (2014 – 2021)

Formerly MSc IIT Kanpur

Thesis title : Aspects of Primordial Perturbations from Effective Field Theory of Inflation

Next affiliation : Postdoc, IIT Bombay → ShanghaiTech, China

Dr. Sayantan Choudhury, Doctoral Student (2009 – 2014)

Formerly MSc Calcutta University

Thesis title : Field theoretical approaches to the early universe

Next affiliation : Postdoc, TIFR Mumbai → IUCAA Pune → AEI-MPG, Germany → NISER → ICTS-TIFR → Assistant Professor, CCSP, SGT University, Delhi NCR

Dr. Barun Kumar Pal, Doctoral Student (2009 – 2013)

Formerly MSc Jadavpur University

Co-supervisor: Prof. Banasri Basu, ISI Kolkata

Thesis title : Theoretical and observational aspects of cosmological inflation

Next affiliation : Postdoc, IUCAA Pune → Assistant Professor, Netaji Nagar College, Kolkata

Subhankar Saha, IISER Berhampur, Long-term project (2023-2024)

Joint supervision with Dr. Amit Dutta Banik, INSPIRE Faculty, ISI

Topic: Inflationary Cosmology

Next affiliation : IISER Bhopal

Rahul Pratap Patel, ISI Kolkata, Course Work project (2023-2024)

Jointly supervision with Dr. Amit Dutta Banik, INSPIRE Faculty, ISI

Topic: Inflationary Cosmology

Next affiliation : ISI Bangalore

Arijit Bhattacharjee, IIT Kharagpur, Long-term project (2022- 23)

Topic: Gravitational Waves

Next affiliation : University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Ritwik Acharyya, IIT Kharagpur, Long-term project (2022- 23)

Topic: Gravitational Waves

Next affiliation : IIT Kharagpur

Rounak Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, Long-term project (2022- 23)

Topic: Gravitational Waves

Next affiliation : IIT Kharagpur

Payal Roy, Calcutta University, Long-term project (2021- 22)

Topic: Cosmology with Gravitational Waves

Next affiliation : University of Illinois Chicago, USA

Soumendra Kishore Roy, Presidency University, Long-term project student (2018-20)

Topic: Statistical application to Cosmology

Next affiliation : State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

Pratyusava Baral, Presidency University, Long-term project student (2018-20)

Topic: Statistical application to Cosmology

Next affiliation : University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Argha Banerjee, Presidency University, Long-term project student (2015 – 2016)

Topic: Effective field theory

Next affiliation : University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

Shamreen Iram, IIT Kanpur, Long-term project student (2014 – 2015)

Topic: Perturbations with interacting dark sectors

Next affiliation : Case Western Reserve University, USA

Bakul Agarwal, IIT Kanpur, Summer Internship (2012)

Topic: Dark energy theory and observations

Next affiliation : Michigan State University, USA

Chandranee Das, Calcutta University, Summer Internship (2012)

Topic: Dark energy theory

Nilanjana Laha, ISI Kolkata, Summer Internship (2010)

Topic: Relativistic theories

Six students in School Students' Summer Project of IUCAA (2007)

Topic: Fun with special relativity