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General Information
Full Name | Avinash Kumar |
Affiliation | Institute of Astrophysics - Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (IA - FORTH) |
Languages | English, Hindi |
Education
- 2023 - Present
PhD
University of Crete & IA-FORTH, GR
- Research supported by European Research Council (ERC)
- 2018
MSc Physics
University of Allahabad, Allahabad
- Specialization in Electronics
- 2016
BSc Physics, Computer Application, Mathematics
University of Allahabad, Allahabad
- Major in Physics and Computer Application(Voc.)
Experience
- Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Senior Project Associate
ARIES Nainital
- funded by ISRO
- Work to help set up Aditya-L1 Support Cell(AL1SC)
- Project is collaboration of ISRO and ARIES Nainital.
- Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
Junior Research Fellow
U C Berkeley SETI - Amity Node
- Funded by Breakthrough Listen Initiative
- Built a semi-automatic pipeline for the SETI backend for the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) to utilise visibility data for imaging the source of interest.
- Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
Research Intern
RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory India
- May 2018 - July 2018
Research Associate
UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences(CEBS)
- supported by CEBS
Open Source Projects
- 2022-2023
scoobi
- Solar Conventionality-based Organizing Observation data ( SCOOBI ) for ARIES Nainital
- 2021-present
setisim
- SETI synthesis imaging
- 2021-2022
turbo_seti
- turboSETI -- python based SETI search algorithm.
- 2021-present
rgbmaker
- A python package which communicates to different astronomical services and fetches fits and numerical data.
Academic Interests
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Radio Astronomy.
- AGN.
- Instrumentation and Techniques.
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Public Communication.
- Citizen Science.
- Outreach Activities.
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Reading, Hiking, Running etc.