Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Liton Majumdar
Academic Education
- Ph.D., Astronomy & Astrophysics, November 2014, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Post M.Sc., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- M.Sc., Physics, 2009, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Honors and Awards
- Visiting Researcher Fellowship, Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe (LCLU), University of Cambridge, UK, December 2023
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS)
- Visiting Associate, IUCAA, Pune, India, August 2020 – present
- Regular Member, Square Kilometre Array Indian Consortium (SKAIC), NCRA-TIFR, Pune, India, August 2020 – present
- Ramanujan Fellowship, SERB, DST, Government of India, 2019
- Regular Member, International Astronomical Union (IAU), 2020 – present
- Life Member, Astronomical Society of India (ASI), 2019 – present
- Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2020 – present
- International Associate, Square Kilometre Array (SKA), 2019 – present
- ALMA Ambassador, NAASC, NRAO, USA, 2019
- Early-Career Initiative Researcher, Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), USA, 2018
- NASA Post-doctoral Program (NPP) Fellow, USA, 2017
- Post-doctoral Fellowship, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017 (offer declined)
- Post-doctoral Fellowship, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, 2017 (offer declined)
- CNRS Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Bordeaux, France, 2014
- Gold Medal, RKMRC Narendrapur, University of Calcutta, India, 2009
Professional Positions
Reader-F
1 July 2021 – Present
Principal Investigator (PI) and Group Lead
Exoplanets and Planetary Formation Group
School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (SEPS)
National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India
Exoplanets and Planetary Formation Group
School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (SEPS)
National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India
Assistant Professor
24 June 2019 – 30 June 2021
Principal Investigator (PI) and Group Lead
Exoplanets and Planetary Formation Group
School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (SEPS)
National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India
Exoplanets and Planetary Formation Group
School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (SEPS)
National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India
Visiting Scientist (Formal Appointment)
24 June 2019 – Present
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), USA
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
NASA Post-doctoral Program Fellow
10 July 2017 – 23 June 2019
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), USA
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
CNRS Post-doctoral Researcher
December 2014 – June 2017
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
University of Bordeaux, France
University of Bordeaux, France