Curriculum Vitae

2011 - present	Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn
	Scientist & Lecturer leading the scientific work for the Bonn cluster/SZ research group active mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students teaching one graduate-level and one undergraduate-level course setting up exercises and undertaking the final examinations for the above short-term student mentoring (astro seminars), writing thesis reports engaging in graduate student selection & interviewing processes participating in various international collaborations (CCAT, ASKAP/EMU, etc.) contributing to the writing of research & funding proposals
2009 - 2010	Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn
	Postdoctoral Fellow teaching a graduate level course on observational cosmology mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students key role in defining the research programs for Bonn APEX-SZ group
2007 - 2008	Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn
	Research Associate assisting in the successful completion of a graduate thesis work playing active role in the APEX-SZ research group in Bonn preparing for and carrying out APEX-SZ observations in Chile
2005 - 2006	Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn
	Postdoctoral Fellow preparatory works on the APEX-SZ cluster survey project contributing to the development of the BoA data analysis software 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

EXPERTISE

Teaching
	Observational Cosmology  (together with C. Porchiani) Observational Cosmology (astro845), Summer semester (April - July), 2010- Theoretical Physics for Teaching Candidates (together with F. Bertoldi & T. Tauris) Klassische theoretische Physik TP-L, Winter semester (October - February), 2013-
Mentoring
	Secondary supervisor to PhD students: (§ = minor contribution) M. Nord (completed 2009) F. Navarrete (completed 2015) § M. Klein (completed 2014) § S. Burkutean (completed 2014) § A. Nagarajan M. Ramos Ceja (completed 2015) J. Erler A. Mikler Secondary supervisor to Masters students: (§ = minor contribution) M. Ramos Ceja (completed 2011) J. Erler (completed 2014) N. Gupta (completed 2014) § S. Srinivasan
Collaborations
	APEX-SZ collaboration (2005-present), CCAT and CCAT-prime collaborations member of the ASKAP/EMU team, Co-I of the German MeerKAT consortium Science Working Group member of Athena and CORE missions
Funding
	major contribution to the DFG Transregio 33 proposal (PI: F. Bertoldi) major role in writing cluster cosmology case for the CCAT White Paper (2013) subsequent contribution to the CCAT-MSIP proposal (2015) minor contributions for NSF proposals: APEX-SZ, MUSTANG-2, GISMO-MSIP contribution (and co-I from Bonn) for the MeerKAT BMBF proposal (2016) successful DAAD application for PhD candidate Aarti Nagarajan (2011)
PI projects
	PI of two successful ALMA proposals (from EU region, acceptance rate <20%) PI of several completed projects at JVLA, ATCA, CARMA, MUSTANG/GBT etc. currently the PI of two ongoing projects at JVLA and Effelsberg Co-I of several XMM, Chandra, & Hubble proposals (as well as in radio and SZ)
Others
	participation during the commissioning of APEX-SZ camera, Chile (2007) observing: APEX-SZ(2007-2010),IRAM 30m (Feb 2005), ATCA (May 2007) etc role in the early development of the BoA data analysis software acquaintance with several interferometric analysis tools and softwares refereeing for three major astronomical journals: ApJ, MNRAS, A&A organizer of the SZ@Bonn international workshop (July 2009) presentation and outreach activities during the ALMA Community Days small experiment with primary school children for Bonn "Jugend forscht" (2016) languages spoken: Bengali, English (fluent), German (good), Hindi (basic)
References:	Prof. Frank Bertoldi Argelander Institut für Astronomie Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany Tel. +49 228 736 789 bertoldi@astro.uni-bonn.de Prof. Karl M. Menten Max-Planck-Instut für Radioastronomie Auf dem Hügel 96, 53121 Bonn, Germany Tel. +49 228 525 297 kmenten@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de Prof. Adrian T. Lee 443 Old LeConte Berkeley, CA 94720-7300, USA Tel. +1 510 643 4606 adrian.lee@berkeley.edu