Galapagos 2007 on The Beagle

Employment:

Present: Research Scientist/Member of Professional Staff, California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Santa Cruz (Sep 1999-Nov 2002)

Education:

High School, Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, New Delhi (-April 1991)
B. Engg, REC Trichy (now called National Institute of Technology), India, Computer Science and Engineering (Aug 1991-May 1995)
Ph.D., UCLA, Astronomy & Astrophysics (Sep 1995-Aug 1999)

Research Interests:

Observational Cosmology, High-Energy Astrophysics, Infrared Astronomy, Accretion Processes around Black Holes, Radiative Transfer

Students/Postdocs:

Benjamin Magnelli (CEA-Saclay, France)
Alexandra Pope (Univ of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Anthony Pullen (TAPIR group, Caltech)
Eric Murphy (SSC Postdoc) - current
Matt Thomson (Univ of Sussex)
Hyunjin Shim (Seoul National Univ) - current

Publications:

NASA ADS

Recreational Interests:

Golf, Tennis, Cricket
Trekking, Camping
Kayaking, Diving
Classical Music
Technology Stocks and Alternate Energy
Driving/Travelling
Origins - of life, humans, languages, races

Remnants of Childhood:

Asterix and Obelix
Tintin
Dilbert
Wallace and Gromit
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