Ajoy Dawn
PhD student
Gravitational lensing and clustering
People & exchange
The group
at IMSc.
Researchers working across inflation, reionization, gravitational lensing and the formation of large-scale structure.
Present members
Anik Ghosh
PhD student
Cosmic reionization
Sanhitaa Guha
PhD student
Large-scale structure
Debabrata Chandra
Postdoctoral fellow
Inflationary cosmology
Previous members
Postdoctoral fellows
Samuel Sánchez López
Postdoctoral fellow, 2024–2025
Inflation and dark-energy problems; subsequently at IAP, Paris.
Debabrata Adak
Postdoctoral fellow
Ionization histories; subsequently at Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife.
Doctoral students
Akhil Antony
Integrated PhD, defended July 2023
Thesis: “A Primordial Solution to the Tensions in Cosmology”; subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at APCTP, Pohang.
HBNI thesis ↗Master’s students
Aditi Krishak
Master’s researcher
Gaussian-process reconstruction of reionization; subsequently at the University of Southern California.
Shweta Jain
Master’s researcher, NIT Trichy
Inflationary potentials and damped oscillations; subsequently at the University of Kentucky.
Kushal Lodha
BS–MS researcher, IIT Kharagpur
The Hubble tension; subsequently at KASI, Daejeon.
Sharvari Naik
Master’s researcher, St. Xavier’s College
Inflationary models.
Shashank Gandhi
Master’s researcher, IIT Madras
Models of reionization.
Visitors
COVID-19 happened.
COVID-19 prevailed.
Matteo Braglia (IFT Madrid); Fabio Finelli (INAF–OAS Bologna); Sourav Mitra (Surendranath College).
Tarun Souradeep (RRI); Matteo Braglia (NYU); Vincent Vennin (LPENS Paris); Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay (IACS); Spyros Sypsas (Chulalongkorn University).
Fabio Finelli (INAF–OAS Bologna); Matteo Braglia (NYU); Supratik Pal (ISI Kolkata); Satadru Bag (TUM).
Tirthankar Roy Choudhury (NCRA–TIFR); Sushan Konar (Ashoka University).