Group Members

We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see openings) !

Principal investigator

Bharat Kumar [CV]

Assistant professor, started June 2020
email: kumarbh@nitrkl.ac.in

PhD Students

Pinku Routaray

PhD, started July 2021
email: routaraypinku@gmail.com

  • PhD Topic: Probing Dark matter in Neutron Stars
  • MSc, Behrampur University

Sayantan Ghosh

PhD, started July 2022
email: sayantanghosh1999@gmail.com

  • PhD Topic: Quasinormal Modes in Neutron Stars
  • MSc, Banaras Hindu University

Probit J Kalita

PhD, started July 2022
email: sayantanghosh1999@gmail.com

  • PhD Topic: Compositions of Neutron Stars
  • MSc, Tezpur University

Sunitarani Pani

PhD, started July 2022
email: 922ph5001@nitrkl.ac.in

  • PhD Topic: Constraining Symmetry Energy of Finite Nuclei
  • MSc, Sambalpur University

Master Students

Kanika Karan

Ongoing MSc thesis project
email: kanikakakran05062001@gmail.com

  • Title: Quasinormal modes in neutron stars

shubhajit Saha

Ongoing MSc thesis project
email: shubhajitsaha80@gmail.com

  • Title: Quarkyonic Matter

Alumni

Khokan Singhao

MSc thesis project
email: 421ph2133@nitrkl.ac.in

  • Title: Exploring the impact of Delta-Baryons on the Properties of Neutron Stars

Mrityunjoy Singha

MSc thesis project
email: 421ph2190@nitrkl.ac.in

  • Title: Dark Compact Objects

Sailesh Ranjan Mohanty

IMSc thesis project
email: 418ph5026@nitrkl.ac.in

  • Title: Impact of Anisotropy on Neutron Star Properties: Insights from Non-adiabatic Gravitational Collapse

Shahebaj Hasan Shaikh

MSc thesis project
email: 421ph2139@nitrkl.ac.in

  • Title: Finite temperature dependent EoS for nucleonic core of neutron stars

Souhardya Sen

MSc thesis project
email: 419ph2148@nitrkl.ac.in

  • Title: Radial Oscillations in Neutron Stars from Unified EoS

Athul K P

MSc thesis project
email: 420ph2159@nitrkl.ac.in

  • Title: Impact of the EoS on f- and p-mode oscillations of neutron stars
  • Status: doing PhD from FSU, USA

Soumya Prakash Behera

IMSc thesis project
email: 416ph5041@nitrkl.ac.in

  • Title: Nuclear constraints on gravitational waves from deformed pulsars

Vikram Singh Khati

MSc thesis project
email: 419ph2112@nitrkl.ac.in

  • Title: Presence of dark matter in the core of Neutron star

Pritam Kumar Bishee

IMSc thesis project
email: 416ph5043@nitrkl.ac.in

  • Title: Treatment of quark matter in the inner core of Neutron star