I am a sixth year graduate student in Astronomy at Harvard University. I work with Edo Berger on studying the progenitors and environments of long-duration gamma-ray bursts.

I received my undergraduate degree in Physics from St. Stephen's College at the University of Delhi, India in 2007. From 2007 to 2009, I studied Parts II and III in Physics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. At Trinity, I held the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Cambridge Scholarship, which is a fellowship given to one undergraduate from India every year. I received my Masters in Astronomy from Harvard in 2011 and expect to graduate with a doctorate in Astrophysics in May 2015.

I am an amateur astronomer and love looking up at the night sky. I built a 6" Newtonian reflecting telescope to explore the wonders of the celestial sphere with my friends. I also designed and built a 20 MHz radio receiver for observing radio bursts from Jupiter and the Galaxy, based on NASA's Radio-Jove concept. Write to me if you're around the Boston neighbourhood and would like a tour of the heavens!

Besides astronomy, I love reading, writing and poetry. A few of my poems might eventually find their way up here. I have a passion for learning languages and can read and write in Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Sanskrit, Tamil, and German. When I'm not working or reading, I can be found singing with the Harvard University Choir (I've also sung with the Harvard Glee Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe chorus), playing tennis, or writing Renaissance polyphony.


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