Former Members of ASI-WGGE

(Chair during the term 2022-25) is an Associate Professor and also the Associate Chair, at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati. Her research interests include Dynamics of Galaxies and Application of Machine Learning in Astronomy and Astrophysics. She is also an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Indian Academy of Sciences. She has served as a member of the Women Cell at IUCAA and the Gender Amity Committee at IISER Tirupati. She is also one of the founding members of Veekshana, the forum of women scientists at IISER Tirupati, and a member of its Internal Complaints Committee.

is a faculty member and theoretical astrophysicist at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, India. Her main interests and expertise is in developing analytical and numerical models of compact stars for better interpretation of multi-messenger astrophysical observations. She has been actively supporting the cause of gender equality in STEM disciplines as an Ambassador for Science in Normandy, France and as a member of various other international organizations.

is a member of the faculty at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. She works primarily in experimental cosmology, at the intersection of science and instrumentation. Her work spans redshifts ranging from inflation, epochs of recombination through reionization, to studies of the interstellar medium as a foreground to faint cosmological signals. She is passionate about breaking stereotypes in academia, and democratising science. She is a member of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) task force at RRI, and enjoys developing educational resources in her spare time. You can find more about her and her research here : https://mayurisrao.wordpress.com/

(Chair during the terms 2019-2022 and 2017-2018) is an astrophysicist at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics in Pune. Her science interests revolve around outflows from "active" galaxies. She also firmly believes that the best research takes place in a gender equitable environment. She has been a member of the WGGE since its inception and is its immediate past Chair.

is a research scientist at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. His research areas includes photonics, astronomy instrumentation and exoplanet science. He is also interested in science outreach and public understanding of science.

is a Reader at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune. He completed his BTech from IIT Bombay and MS and PhD from California Institute of Technology. His research is in transient astronomy at very short timescales, probing fast radio bursts, magnetar flares and trying to understand the origins of these extremely violent events and the physics of the emission mechanisms. He also works on instruments and extremely high data rate signal processing required for detecting, locating, and characterizing these transients. Shriharsh is active in public outreach and higher secondary education through the NIUS and Olympiad programs.

is a faculty member at the school of astrophysics at Presidency University. Her research area lies in the interface of astrophysics and cosmology and combines theoretical, phenomenological, and data-oriented aspects. The core of her research is focused in investigating the connection between supermassive black hole (SMBH) evolution and cosmological structure formation in numerical simulations and testing the predictions against multi-wavelength observations. She has been awarded multiple grants including the SERB early career research grant. As an academic, she is very excited about physics teaching, physics education research as well as public outreach of science. She is a recipient of the Indian Association for Physics Teachers (IAPT) Dinabandhu Sahu Memorial award for excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring and is one of the national astronomy education coordinators of the International Astronomical Union. She served the Indian Physics Association gender working group and has led efforts in enhancing diversity in physics and beyond.

is an astronomer at Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), Nainital.  Her research focuses on cosmic transients of wide variety like Supernovae,  Gamma Ray Bursts and electromagnetic counterparts of Gravitational Waves.  ​

is an astronomer at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune. His research interests are in galaxy formation and evolution, the interstellar medium in galaxies, and using astronomical phenomena to test fundamental physics.

is a faculty member in Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali. Her research interest is to study theoretical and observational aspects of dark energy. She has been a warden in her Institute and has been closely involved in working on issues related to female students and related to support/house keeping staff in hostels. She helped in organising the first formal gender session in ASI meeting in 2014.

(Chair during the term 2015-2017) is a faculty member at NCRA-TIFR, Pune. Her area of specialization is Theoretical Astrophysics (Compact Objects).

is an assistant professor at the Department of Physics, Presidency University Kolkata. His research interest is centered on the inflow and outflow around super-massive black holes. He strives to be aware of various conscious and unconscious bias against the under-represented in academia and aspires to advance this awareness among the communities he belongs to. Being a multi-wavelength astronomer and a teacher in the university, Ritaban constantly tries to tune his "wavelength" in order to communicate better with the students. He hopes the new generation to grow up with more awareness and empathy for all sorts of "otherness" in their communities.

is an astrophysicist, who was a faculty at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, for 23 years. Her core research interest is empirical investigations of giant black holes in the centres of distant galaxies. She believes that nurturing learning environments pave the way towards  excellence. Acutely aware of her privilege of being paid to be fascinated by the universe, she is continually amazed that the amateur astronomers often stand out as the impassioned ones. She has been engaging publicly and in academic settings with the issue of gender inequity in the astrophysics profession since 2007.

is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore. Her main area of research includes understanding how galaxies evolve in their environments. She is also active in science popularisation and making astronomy accessible to general public.

is a radio astronomer by training, and is a scientfiic officer at NCRA-TIFR in Pune. He used to work on star formation in starbursts and quasars and currently works on radio interferometery algorithms and pipelines. His interests in astronomy outreach are in design, implementation and evaluation of national astronomy campaigns, creating resource material for school students, and social media.

is an Indian scientist acclaimed for his studies related to Solar Magnetic Cycle. He is associated with MSU, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and IISER Kolkata where he carried most of his research work.

is a professor, Physical Sciences at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali. His research focus is mainly in Galaxy Formation, Cosmological Simulations.

is faculty member at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram. Her broad areas of interest are High Energy Astrophysics, Radiation processes in astrophysical contexts, Relativistic sources, X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy.