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Surajit Paul - curriculum vitae



Fellowships and Appointments

  • SFB Fellow (DESY)
  • SFB Fellow (DESY), Hamburg University, Germany
    Visiting Scientist at Hamburger Sternwarte

  • DST-INSA INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
  • DST-INSA INSPIRE Faculty, Department of Physics, University of Pune
    INSPIRE Faculty position is Awarded by DST, Govt. of India [Selected by INSA]

    Offers from the Institutes for INSPIRE Faculty Position

    IISER (Bhopal), University of Pune, Presidency University (Kolkata), and MCNS (Manipal)

  • DST-SERB, Govt of India
  • DST-SERB Young Scientist Fellowship, (Under Fast Track Scheme, now Start-Up Research Grant). 1 Aug 2012 - present. [Host Institute: IUCAA] and at present at the Department of Physics, University of Pune

  • Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India
  • Post Doctoral Fellowship, from Aug 2009 - July 2012.

  • Lehrstuhl für Astronomie, Universität Würzburg, Germany
  • Doctoral Fellowship (Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG),from December 2005 - July 2009.

    Advisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Mannheim

  • Indian Institute of Astrophysics, IIA , Bangalore, India
  • Project Fellow,2005
    The research activity was part of the TAUVEX Project (in colaboration with TelAviv University, Isreal) "Observations of the Universe in the Ultraviolet".

    Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jayant Murthy

  • Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics , Pune, India
  • Research Assistant, July 2004 - July 2005.

    Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jaydeep Bagchi

  • S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences , Kolkata, India
  • Summer Project Fellow, May - July 2003
    Summer Project Fellowship of Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India .
    Project Topic: "Bending of Light Near weak Gravitational Field''

    Advisor: Dr. Biswajit Chakraborty


    Academic Education

  • Lehrstuhl für Astronomie, Universität Würzburg, Germany
  • PhD , March, 2010.
    Thesis Title: "Evolution of shocks and turbulence in major galaxy-cluster mergers"
    Advisor: Prof. Karl Mannheim
  • Pune University Pune, India
  • Master of Science With Specialization in Astrophysics , 2002-2004.
    Dissertation Topic of Masters Thesis: "Setting up a 21 cm Hydrogen Line Radio Telescope and Receiver/Spectrometer"
    Advisor: Prof. Joydeep Bagchi
  • University of Calcutta ,Kolkata,India
  • Graduated with Honours in Physics from
    RKMRC Narendrapur College , 1999-2002.


    Awards, Fellowship & Scholarships

  • DST-INSA INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
  • INSPIRE Faculty position and research grant: Awarded by DST, Govt. of India [Selected by INSA], January, 2013

  • DST-SERB, Govt of India
  • DST-SERB Young Scientist Fellowship and research grant, (Under Fast Track Scheme).
    Duration (Aug 2012 - July 2015)

  • Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) Scholarship for MSc Physics:
  • Scholarship for Masters studies in Physics 2002-2004

  • C.K.Majumder Memorial Workshop in Physics
  • 'Best Experimenter Prize' in June 2002

  • NGPE: National Graduate Physics Examination (INIDIA)
  • Gold Medal in NGPE 2002, conducted by IAPT in June 2002

  • National Scholarship Scheme, Govt. of India
  • National Scholarship for Higher Secondary Education Based on result of 10th standard (School Final)


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