Hello!
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utah, working with Prof. Yao-Yuan Mao. My primary research focuses on understanding the formation and evolution of low-mass "dwarf" galaxies through observational techniques. I am broadly interested in various aspects of galaxy evolution including topics such as Active Galactic Nuclei, Intermediate-Mass Black Holes, Supermassive Black Holes, Satellite Galaxies, and Lyman-Alpha Emitters.
I was born in Hyderabad, India, and grew up in several cities around the country. I completed my Integrated M.Sc (Physics) at Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India, where I was a DST-INSPIRE scholar for the entire period of five years (2010 - 2015). After that, I earned my Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Arizona in 2023, under the guidance of Dr. Stéphanie Juneau and Dr. Arjun Dey. My thesis work, titled "Dwarf Galaxies as Probes of Galaxy Evolution", focused on answering several key questions in galaxy evolution using low-mass galaxies. You can learn more about my work here.
Media Highlights
- ‘Now I see you moment’ for Andhra-origin scientist. How her team identified 2,500 potential black holes [The Print, 2025/02]
- 2,500 New Active Black Holes Identified, Raising Questions About How They Evolve [Discovery Magazine, 2025/02]
- Largest-ever Discovery of ‘missing link’ Black Holes Revealed by Dark Energy Camera [Space News, 2025/02]
- ‘Vast discovery’ of Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies [The UNews, 2025/02]
- DESI Finds Black Holes are Common in Small Galaxies Too [DESI Blog, 2025/02]
- A Substantial Increase in the Census of Dwarf AGN Candidates from DESI Early Data [NOIRLab The Mirror, 2025/01]
- A Cosmic Census Triples the Known Number of Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies [ScienceNews, 2024/11]
- Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos [University of Arizona News, 2022/02]