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Tuhin Ghosh

School: 

Physical Sciences

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Education: 

2017 - Present -   Assistant Professor at NISER, Jatni

2016 - 2017     -   Postdoctoral scholar, Caltech, U.S.A

2012 - 2015     -   Postdoctoral scholar, Institute d' Astrophysique Spatiale, France

2006 - 2011     -   Ph.D. in Astrophysics, IUCAA, Pune

2004 - 2006     -   M.Sc. in Physics, IIT Kharagpur

Specialisation: 

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Dust Polarization, Primordial gravitational waves from cosmic inflation

Awards: 

2018                   -   Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences

2018                   -   IUCAA Visiting Associateship Programme 

2018                   -   Gruber Cosmology Prize - Planck Team 

2018                   -   Group Achievement Award  - Planck Team 

2016                   -   INSPIRE faculty award (declined).

2014 - present   -   Planck scientist.

Publications: 

1. On the statistics of the polarized submillimetre emission maps from thermal dust in the turbulent, magnetized, diffuse ISM, F. Levrier, J. Neveu, E. Falgarone, F. Boulanger, A. Bracco, Tuhin Ghosh, F. Vansyngel
   Astronomy & Astrophysics 614, A124 (2018)
2. Non-Gaussianity of diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission at 408 MHz Sandeep Rana, Tuhin Ghosh, Jasjeet S. Bagla, and Pravabati Chingangbam MNRAS 481, 970 (2018)

Responsibilities: 

HPC - System Administrator

Research: 

1. Cosmology with Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
2. Dust Polarization
3. Primordial Gravitational waves
4. Cosmology with Thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect
5. Galactic magnetic fields
6. Statistical tools in Cosmology
7. Filamentary structure of interstellar medium

Teaching: 

P342 - Computational lab 

P745 - Computational physics

P244 - Modern Physics lab I

P744 - Integrated M.Sc. – Ph.D experiments

Contacts: 

School of Physical Sciences

National Institute of Science Education and Research

P.O. - Jatni, District - Khurda

Odisha, India - 752050

Phone No.: 

+91-674-2494292

Extension: 

2292

Room No.: 

416 FC

Mail ID: 

tghosh [AT] niser [DOT] ac [DOT] in

Other Links: 

Vacancies

 

Looking for hiring highly motivated and bright postdoctoral candidates interested in different areas of Galactic Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Please drop a mail (tghosh@niser.ac.in) with CV for postdoc candidates with scientific interests.

Candidates with good scientific programming skills are highly encouraged.

The postdoc application link http://www.niser.ac.in/notices/2014/recruitments/PDF_SPS_16072018.pdf

Postdoc candidates through SERB-NPDF scheme are encouraged to directly contact me, tghosh@niser.ac.in.