Exoplanets and Planetary Formation Group
Current Group Members
Ph.D. Students (NISER Funded)
Prathap Rayalacheruvu
Research Area : Physics and chemistry of protostars and planet-forming disks, Molecular Astrophysics/Astrochemistry
Expertise: Numerical modeling, Observations using JWST telescopes
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 telescopes
Parashmoni Kashyap
Research Area : Planet formation, Connecting compositions of planet-forming disks with exoplanets
Expertise: Numerical modeling, Observations using ALMA
Mithun Patra
Research Area : Exoplanet Atmospheres (Theory and JWST Observations)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Funded by External Grants)
Satyam Srivastav
Research Area : Computational Astrochemistry and its application in exoplanetary atmospheres
Expertise: Quantum Chemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy, and Reaction Kinetics
Junior Research Fellows and Project Fellows (Funded by External Grants)
Tonmoy Deka
Research Area : Exoplanet Atmospheres (Theory and JWST Observations)
Expertise: Development of forward and retrieval models for exoplanet atmospheres
Maitrey
Research Area : Planet formation, Connecting compositions of planet-forming disks with exoplanets (Theory)
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 Interior and Atmospheres (Theory and JWST Observations)
Debayan Das
(IISER Kolkata)
Research Area: Cloud formation in exoplanet atmospheres and implications for JWST (Theory and Observations)
Anjana Shaju
(IISER Mohali)
Research Area: Planet formation, exoplanets and meteorite connection
Nikunj Dimri
(IISER Mohali)
Research Area: Venus atmosphere and future observations, exoplanet atmospheres
Swastik Dewan
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres
Tasneem Basra Khan
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres
Aswathi Viswanath
(IISER Tirupati)
Research Area: Exoplanet atmospheres
Rishav Das
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area: Planet formation
Integrated M.Sc. Students (Semester Projects):
Harshit Krishna
(IISER Mohali)
Research Area: Exoplanetary interior and its retrieval using Bayesian inference
Asmit Gupta
(IISER Kolkata)
Research Area: Planetary interiors
Krish Gupta
(IISER Pune)
Research Area: Planet formation
Former Group Members :
Chandan Kumar Sahu
MS Thesis, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. position from the Penn State University, USA)
Research Area : Modeling the interior of rocky terrestrial Exoplanets, Coupled atmospheric and interior modeling for exoplanets
Dibya Bharati Pradhan
MS Project, NISER Bhubaneswar Joined Ph.D. position from the ETH zurich, Switzerland
Research Area : Atmospheres of Earth-like planets using HWO and LIFE mission concepts
Baibhav Srivastava
MS Thesis, IISER Berhampur (Joined Ph.D. position from the Rice University, USA)
Research Area : Gas distribution and evolution in planet-forming disks (Theory, ALMA and JWST Observations)
Varun Manilal
MS Thesis, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. position from the Arizona State 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. position from the Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, France)
Research Area : Detectability of Bio-signatures in exoplanets using JWST and photochemical modeling
Dr. Namrata Rani
Post Doctoral Fellow, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined FONDECYT Post Doctoral position from the Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
Research Area : Computational Astrochemistry and its application in exoplanetary atmospheres
Rahul Arora
MS Thesis, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. position from the 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. position from the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), Munich, Germany)
Research Area : Exoplanet Atmospheres
Akshay Priyadarshi
MS Thesis, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. position from the University of Manchester, UK)
Research Area : Planet formation & exoplanets
Spandan Dash
Pre. PhD Project, Visiting Student, NISER Bhubaneswar (Joined Ph.D. position from the 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 Sceince
Aniket Nath
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area : Atmospheric Opacity Calculation
Pabitra Ranjan Giri
(NISER Bhubaneswar)
Research Area : JWST ice observations of Protostars