• Life Member of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI; Membership no: L2347) from 2021-

• Working as a Guest Editor in an issue in MDPI/Galaxies journal

• Awarded Ramanujan Fellowship by SERB-DST, Govt. of India to carry out independent research at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India

• Awarded Kreitman Fellowship to carry out post-doctoral research work with Uri Keshet at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ben-Gurion, Israel, from Nov. 2018 - Dec. 2020

• Selected as Grant Recipient of 42nd COSPAR Scientific assembly, Caltech, Pasadena, USA, July 2018

• Member of La Sociedad Chilena de Astronomia (SOCHIAS, Chilean Society of Astronomy) from 2017 - 2018

• Visiting Scientist, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India, February 2018

• Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany, to work with Prof. Eugene Churazov and High Energy Astrophysics group, July 2017

• Visiting Scientist, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2016

• Awarded CONICYT-FONDECYT Post-doctoral Fellowship from 2015-2018

• Visiting Scientist, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, June 2015

• Selected as a Grant Recipient of COSPAR Students’ Fellowship Programme to visit NASA/GSFC from Sep. 1-30, 2014, to work with Prof. Keith A. Arnaud

• Selected as Grant Recipient Student in the COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop, Xuyi, Jiangsu, China, 2013

• Grant from the South Asian Physics Foundation (SAPF) for attending the International conference on “Accretion and Outflow in Black Hole Systems” in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2010

• Qualified Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST, India) examination was held in February 2010

• Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET, India), CSIR-JRF with all India rank 63, the examination was held in June 2009

• Awarded Charubala Devi Memorial prize for 1st class 3rd in M.Sc.

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  Research Experience

Apr. 2021- present, Ramanujan Fellow, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India

Jan. 2020 - Apr. 2021, Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India 

​Nov. 2018 - Dec. 2020, Postdoctoral Fellow under Kreitman Fellowship, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Nov. 2015 - Oct. 2018, FONDECYT Fellow, Universidad de Valparaiso (started from 2016)

Mar. 2015 - Feb. 2016, Post-doctoral Fellow, Indian Centre for Space Physics

Mar. 2012 - Feb. 2015, Senior Research Fellow, Indian Centre for Space Physics

Mar. 2010 - Feb. 2012, Junior Research Fellow, Indian Centre for Space Physics

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  Research Funding Received

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3. Awarded research grant of INR 1.19 Crore by SERB-DST, Govt. of India, No. RJF/2020/000113, “Accretion Processes in Astrophysics” as a P. I. (from Apr. 2021 to Mar. 2026)

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2. Awarded research grant of $ 78,766,000 CLP by CONICYT-FONDECYT, Govt. of Chile, No. 3160350, “Accretion and ejection around compact objects” as a P. I. (from Nov. 2015 to Oct. 2018), hosted by Prof. Patricia Arevalo

1. Awarded COSPAR Students’ Fellowship of Euro 1700 to visit NASA/GSFC jointly with ISRO, India

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  Observational Proposal Accepted

1. Time awarded by the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope for the optical proposal “Searching for the optical counterpart of the stellar-mass black hole candidate MAXI J1543-564” as a P.I. with Co-Is Jesus M. Corral-Santana and Patricia Arèvalo in CNTAC cycle 2018-B, Chile

 

2. Time awarded by Swift/XRT for simultaneous X-Ray observation of the stellar-mass black hole candidate MAXI J1543-564 as a P.I.

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  In Books

1. Santanu Mondal, 2018 “Transonic Flow Solutions with Explicit Cooling and Viscosity.” In: Mukhopadhyay B., Sasmal S. (eds) Exploring the Universe: From Near Space to Extra-Galactic. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 53, page 67-83. Springer