Curriculum Vitae

2011 - 2014	Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn
	Staff Scientist (non-tenured)
2008 - 2010	Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn
	Postdoctoral Fellow secondary advisor to graduate and under-graduate students key role in defining research programs for the APEX-SZ group in Bonn writing of funding proposals for the Bonn research group
2006 - 2007	Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn
	Research Associate assisting in graduate thesis work key role in the APEX-SZ research as member of the Bonn group
2005 - 2006	Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn
	Postdoctoral Fellow preparatory works on the APEX-SZ cluster survey project independent research on cluster radio sources, recombination lines etc.

EDUCATION

2001- 2004	Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
qualification:	PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics; December 9, 2004  (cum laude)
	Thesis topic: "Metal Enrichment History of the Universe from CMB Observations" Thesis supervisor: Prof. Rashid Sunyaev Abstract and complete PDF file for the thesis is available here.
2000 - 2001	Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
	Research Scholar in Astrophysics
1998 - 2000	Jadavpur University, Kolkata
qualification:	M. Sc. in Physics with honors (highest marks)
	Special subjects: High Energy Physics and General Relativity
1995 - 1998	Jadavpur University, Kolkata
qualification:	B. Sc. in Physics with honors (highest marks, gold medal)
	Subsidiary subjects: Chemistry and Mathematics

EXPERIENCE

Teaching
	Observational Cosmology  (together with Prof. C. Porchiani) Astronomie 6935 / astro845, Sommersemester 2010-2013 (April - July)   Secondary supervisor to Ph.D. students: F. Navarrete, M. Klein, A. Nagarajan & S. Burkutean Supervisor to Master's student: M. Ramos Assistance with graduate thesis work (student: M. Nord, submitted: Sep. 2009)
Contributed Talks
(selected)	German ALMA Community Day, Bonn  (October 2009)  [PDF] X-ray Astronomy 2009 Decadal Conference, Bologna  (September 2009)  [PDF] Bonn SZ Workshop, Bonn  (July 2009)  [PDF] CosmoClusters International Workshop, Marseille  (May 2009)  [PDF] Cluster Cooling Flow Workshop, Leiden  (September 2008) SPP Meeting, Bad Honnef  (October 2007)  [PDF] Francesco Melchiorri Memorial Conference, Rome  (April 2006)  [PDF] 2nd Planck Symposium, Orsay  (January 2004)  [PDF]
Contributed Posters
(selected)	Science with ALMA: International Conference, Mardid  (November 2006) Ringberg Workshop on Galaxy Clusters, Tegernsee  (October 2006) SZ Effect and ALMA, Orsay  (April 2005) Texas at Tuscany, Florence  (December 2002)
Observing
	Participation during comissioning of APEX-SZ camera, Chile  (2007) Observations with APEX-SZ camera, Chile  (2007-2010) Australia Telescope Compact Array, Australia  (May 2007) IRAM 30 meter telescope, Spain  (February 2005) Effelsberg 100 meter telescope, Germany  (2005, 2006)
Data Analysis
	Role in development of the BoA data analysis software Use of BoA for analyzing APEX-SZ data, incl. real-time data quality assesment GILDAS  (analysis of PdBI interferometric data) MIRIAD  (analysis of ATCA and CARMA interferometric data) AIPS, CASA  (basic acquaintance)
Programming
	IDL, Python, Fortran 90 Experienced in Linux system and administrative tasks, Mac OS
Organizational
	Organizer of the SZ@Bonn International Workshop,  July 2009  (link) Assistance in organizing CMBNet Ringber Meeting,  December 2002
Languages
	Bengali (native) English (fluent) German (good) Hindi (intermediate) Spanish (very basic)