Prathap Rayalacheruvu
Research Area: Physics and chemistry of protostars and planet-forming disks, Molecular Astrophysics/Astrochemistry
Expertise: Numerical modeling, Observations using JWST telescope
Exoplanets and Planetary Formation Group
Current Group Members
Ph.D. Students (NISER Funded)
Priyankush Ghosh
Research Area: Modeling and observations of exoplanet atmospheres
Expertise: Numerical modeling, Ground and space-based observations using 3.6 m DDT, 1.3 m DFOT, and JWST
Parashmoni Kashyap
Research Area: Planet formation, Connecting compositions of planet-forming disks with exoplanets
Expertise: Numerical modeling, ALMA observations
Mithun Patra
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres (Theory and JWST observations)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Funded by External Grants)
Satyam Srivastav
Research Area: Computational astrochemistry and applications to exoplanetary atmospheres
Expertise: Quantum chemistry, molecular spectroscopy, reaction kinetics
Junior Research Fellows and Project Fellows (Funded by External Grants)
Tonmoy Deka
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres (theory and JWST observations)
Maitrey
Research Area: Planet formation
Sambit Mishra
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheric chemistry models
Shubham Dey
Research Area: Climate modelling of exoplanet atmospheres
Integrated M.Sc. Students (Final Year Thesis)
Sudipta Mridha
(IISER Kolkata)
Research Area: Exoplanet interiors and atmospheres (theory and JWST observations)
Nikunj Dimri
(IISER Mohali)
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres
Swastik Dewan
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres
Tasneem Basra Khan
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Application of Machine Learning for Exoplanet atmospheres
Aswathi Viswanath
(IISER Tirupati)
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres
Rishav Das
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Planet formation, ALMA Observations
Asmi Nandy
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Astrochemistry
Vishal Meena
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres
Integrated M.Sc. Students (Semester Projects)
Harshit Krishna
(IISER Mohali)
Research Area: Exoplanet interiors and retrieval using Bayesian inference
Asmit Gupta
(IISER Kolkata)
Research Area: Planetary interiors
Krish Gupta
(IISER Pune)
Research Area: Planet formation, ALMA Observations
Former Group Members
Anjana Shaju
(IISER Mohali)
MS Thesis, IISER Mohali (Joined Ph.D. at KU Leuven, Belgium)
Research Area: Origins of exoplanet atmospheres
Debayan Das
(IISER Kolkata)
MS Thesis, IISER Kolkata (Joined Ph.D. at The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Research Area: Equilibrium chemistry and cloud formation in exoplanet atmospheres
Dibya Bharati Pradhan
MS Project, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. at ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Research Area: Atmospheres of Earth-like planets using HWO and LIFE mission concepts
Chandan Kumar Sahu
MS Thesis, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. at Penn State University, USA)
Research Area: Interior modeling of rocky exoplanets; Coupled atmosphere–interior modeling
Baibhav Srivastava
MS Thesis, IISER Berhampur (Joined Ph.D. at Rice University, USA)
Research Area: Gas distribution and evolution in planet-forming disks (theory, ALMA & JWST observations)
Varun Manilal
MS Thesis, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. at Yale University, USA)
Research Area: Ice distribution and evolution in planet-forming disks (theory and JWST observations)
Nishil Mehta
MS Thesis, IISER TVM (Joined Ph.D. at Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, France)
Research Area: Detectability of biosignatures in exoplanets using JWST and photochemical modeling
Dr. Namrata Rani
Postdoctoral Fellow, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined FONDECYT Postdoctoral position, Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
Research Area: Computational astrochemistry and exoplanetary atmospheres
Rahul Arora
MS Thesis, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. at Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, USA)
Research Area: 3D modeling and cloud formation in exoplanet atmospheres
Dwaipayan Dubey
MS Thesis, IISER Kolkata (Joined Ph.D. at LMU Munich, Germany)
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres
Akshay Priyadarshi
MS Thesis, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. at University of Manchester, UK)
Research Area: Planet formation & exoplanets
Spandan Dash
Pre-PhD Project, Visiting Student, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. at University of Warwick, UK)
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres and planet-formation histories
Suyash C Fokane
MS Thesis, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined IIM Kozhikode for MBA)
Research Area: Planet formation (theory and ALMA observations)
Kishore Sourav
MS Thesis, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined IIM Kolkata for MBA)
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres (theory)
Shubham Ilhe
MS Thesis, IISER Kolkata (Joined Data Science industry)
Research Area: Planet formation (theory and ALMA observations)
Oommen P. Jose
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Machine learning for exoplanetary atmospheres
Aniket Nath
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Radiative transfer calculations for exoplanetary atmospheres
Pabitra Ranjan Giri
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Machine learning for JWST ice analysis