Astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury appointed vice chancellor of Ashoka University
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NEW DELHI: Eminent astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury has been appointed as vice chancellor of Ashoka University, officers mentioned on Thursday.
Raychaudhury, who’s at the moment director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), will take over from Professor Malabika Sarkar who has been serving because the VC since August 2019.
“Professor Raychaudhury’s appointment follows an extensive global search conducted by a Search Committee consisting of the chancellor, deans, faculty members, founders and trustees of Ashoka University. His date of joining will be announced shortly,” the varsity mentioned in a press release.
Raychaudhury holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Churchill College, University of Cambridge and undergraduate levels in Physics from Trinity College at University of Oxford and Presidency College at University of Calcutta.
He was earlier the Head of Department of Physics and Dean of Sciences at Presidency University.
He additionally held varied positions on the University of Birmingham, UK; the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and Lowell House at Harvard University; and the Institute of Astronomy on the University of Cambridge.
Raychaudhary is one in every of India’s main observational astronomers, and has made seminal discoveries utilizing observations at radio, optical and X-ray frequencies.
He pioneered the examine of galaxy superclusters because the universe’s largest constructions, and has labored on unique stars comparable to black holes in close by galaxies.
“He has developed innovative machine-learning algorithms for mining large astronomical datasets, and recently co-chaired the committee to compile the vision document for the next decade of astronomy research for the Government of India,” the assertion added.
NEW DELHI: Eminent astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury has been appointed as vice chancellor of Ashoka University, officers mentioned on Thursday.
Raychaudhury, who’s at the moment director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), will take over from Professor Malabika Sarkar who has been serving because the VC since August 2019.
“Professor Raychaudhury’s appointment follows an extensive global search conducted by a Search Committee consisting of the chancellor, deans, faculty members, founders and trustees of Ashoka University. His date of joining will be announced shortly,” the varsity mentioned in a press release.
Raychaudhury holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Churchill College, University of Cambridge and undergraduate levels in Physics from Trinity College at University of Oxford and Presidency College at University of Calcutta.
He was earlier the Head of Department of Physics and Dean of Sciences at Presidency University.
He additionally held varied positions on the University of Birmingham, UK; the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and Lowell House at Harvard University; and the Institute of Astronomy on the University of Cambridge.
Raychaudhary is one in every of India’s main observational astronomers, and has made seminal discoveries utilizing observations at radio, optical and X-ray frequencies.
He pioneered the examine of galaxy superclusters because the universe’s largest constructions, and has labored on unique stars comparable to black holes in close by galaxies.
“He has developed innovative machine-learning algorithms for mining large astronomical datasets, and recently co-chaired the committee to compile the vision document for the next decade of astronomy research for the Government of India,” the assertion added.
