Biography:

I received PhD in space science from the University of Calcutta, India. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil, the Arecibo Observatory, USA, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. I was selected as a “Ramanujan Fellow” by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India; and as a “Distinguished Researcher” by Chinese Academy of Sciences, and received the “Excellent Young Science Fund Project (Overseas)” from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Research Interest:

Space weather; solar wind interactions with planets and comets; geomagnetic storms and substorms.

What You Can Expect in the Project:

The summer project will explore impacts of corotating interaction regions (CIRs) on Mars in comparison to those on Earth based on existing Mars exploration data from Tianwen-1 and the MAVEN missions, and several Earth and solar missions. Mars with thin ionosphere and no significant intrinsic magnetosphere responds differently to CIRs than Earth with intrinsic dipole magnetosphere. Aim will be to understand the underlying physical processes.

Desired skill and background:

Students who major in Physics or Space Physics are welcome. Experience in data analysis using Python/MATLAB/IDL is a plus.