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Prof. Dibyendu
Chakrabarty
Space and Atmospheric Sciences Division
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: +91-79-26314652
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Research Interests
Space-weather
Solar wind
Magnetosphere
Ionosphere
Thermosphere
Present and upcoming projects
Narrow spectral band, narrow FOV Airglow experiments
GPS/GNSS/IRNSS based TEC experiments
Rocket based Langmuir Probe experiments
Satellite experiments (Optical + Plasma)
Involvements in Space missions
Principal Investigator (PI) of a number of experiments on-board Indian space Missions. This includes
Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) in ADITYA-L1 mission (https://www.prl.res.in/ASPEX/ )
PRL payloads of the proposed DISHA mission of ISRO
High Frequency Langmuir Probe (LP) Experiment in the proposed DISHA mission of ISRO
Narrow band oxygen Airglow detection in Venusian Atmosphere (NAVA), Venus RADiation Environment Monitor (VeRAD) in the proposed Venus mission
Energetic Ion Spectrometer (EIS) in the proposed second Mars mission
Publications
Papers in peer-reviewed journals: 99
This includes Review articles: 4; Chapter of a book: 1
Papers in proceedings: 10
Total Publications: 109
Awards
Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in Space Sciences, 2015
Visitng Faculty positions
Visiting Scholar at the Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS), Utah State
University, USA, 2012
Special assignments
Head, Space and Atmospheric Sciences Division, PRL, 2023 - (https://www.prl.res.in/prl-eng/division/spas/)
Member, PRL Management Committee, 2023 -
Moderator, Splinter group-6 (Near-Earth Space Exploration, Aeronomy, Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Magnetosphere) for Future Space Science Roadmap (ISRO), 2024
Lead, RAMBHA-LP review team in the peer review committee for Chandrayaan-3 payload data, ISRO, 2024
Member, Payload Desgn Review Committee of DISHA Project, ISRO, 2024
Chair, ASPEX Configuration Review Committee (ACRC), 2024
Chair, APXS (Chandrayaan-3), Data pipeline software internal Test & Evaluation committee, 2023
Chair, ISRO-STP (Theme: Sun-Planet interactions: A space weather perspective) at PRL, 2023
Chair, ISRO-STP (Theme: Space Science Programme: ISRO & Global Scenario) at PRL, 2018
Chair, XSM and APXS (Chandrayaan-2), Data pipeline software internal Test & Evaluation committee, 2018
Member, Aditya Science Working Group (ASWG), ISRO, 2020 -
Member, Aditya-L1 Space Weather Monitoring and Prediction (ASWMP) committee, ISRO, 2020
Member, Peer Review Committee (Venus Mission payloads), ISRO, 2021
Member, RESPOND Review Committee, PRL, 2020 -
Invited Reviewer, DST-SERB and CSIR-ASPIRE research proposals
Nodal person (For 3 projects), Co-PI (For 2 Projects): RESPOND Program, ISRO
Member, COSPAR Task Group on International Geospace Systems Program (TGIGSP), 2021-2025 (https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/task-group-on-establishing-an-international-geospace-systems-program-tgigsp/)
Member, AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy Fellows Committee (SPAFC), 2022-2024 (https://www.agu.org/Learn-About-AGU/About-AGU/Governance/Committees/Honors-Recognition-Committee/SPA-Fellows-Committee/)
Invited Reviewer, 2023 Regular Fondecyt National Projects Competition, National Research and Development Agency (ANID) of the Ministry of Science,
Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile, Gobierno de Chile, 2022
Invited reviewer, 2024, NSF (USA) research proposal, 2024
Invited reviewer for staff promotion in many National institutes
Member of ISRO team for a number of inter-agency (e.g. NOAA, NASA) discussions
Member, UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs) "Access to space for all'' curriculum Committee, 2022-2023
Member, Working Group, Pillar 2, International program PRESTO, 2020
AGU Editor's choice in Space Weather for two papers (2007, 2012)
Certificates in Outstanding contribution in reviewing (JASTP, ASR), Elsevier, 2019
Acknowledgements from JGR space physics (AGU) for reviewing more than 3 papers in multiple years
Member, RAC, IASES, Kolkata, 2023 -
Life Member, Indian Planeatry Science Association (IPSA), 2023 -
Life Member, Indian RAdio Science Society (InRASS), 2022 -
Member, Board of Studies, Space and Atmospheric Science (SAS) Course, UN-CSSTEAP, (Center for Space Science and Teechnology Education in Asia and Pacific), 2021
Chair, IPSTRA panel for Solar-Terresrtrial Physics, Bengaluru, 2021 -
Member, SOC and LOC of various National/International conferences
Chair/Co-Chair, Sessions in National/International conferences and committees
Plenary and invited talks, National/International conferences
Reviwer, National/International, peer reviewed, high impact journals, Doctoral Theses, Projects etc.
Supervision/Mentoring
Doctoral students: 6 (4 Completed, 2 Ongoing)
--- Diptiranjan Rout (Supervisor, July, 2013 - July, 2017)
--- Kuldeep Pandey (Co-Supervisor, June, 2014 - November, 2018)
--- Ankit Kumar (Supervisor, July, 2018 - August, 2022)
--- Yogesh (Supervisor, October, 2019 - August, 2023)
Present Doctoral students: 2
--- Bijoy Dalal (Supervisor, To submit thesis in 2024)
--- Aakash Gupta (Supervisor, Joined in September 2023)
Post-doctoral fellows: 9 (8 Completed, 1 Ongoing)
--- Dr. Debrup Hui (August, 2015 - September, 2017)
--- Dr. Diptiranjan Rout (August, 2017 - February, 2019)
--- Dr. Kuldeep Pandey (September, 2018 - Seoptember, 2020)
--- Dr. Sandeep Kumar (April, 2018 - November, 2019)
--- Dr. Sivakandan Mani (May, 2018 -May, 2019)
--- Dr. Suman Chakraborty (February, 2020 - October, 2021)
--- Dr. Sumanjit Chakrabarty (September, 2021 - September, 2023)
--- Dr. Ankit Kumar (September, 2022 - )
--- Dr. Yogesh (August, 2023 - December, 2023)
M. Tech/MS Thesis: (1 Completed, 1 Ongoing)
--- Ajay Kumar Yadav, IISER, Tirupati (Submitted in April, 2024), will be joining Max Planck Institute, Germany, 2024
--- Aparupa Apsara Baruah, Dibrugarh University
Doctoral Study Committees: 19 (Past + Present)
Projects offered for Doctoral students (as part of orientation course
work): 29
Projects offered for Engineering and M.Sc. interns: 16
Group members
Scientists/Engineers
--- Aaditya Sarda (B.Tech., Avionics)
--- Rahul Pathak (B.Tech., ECE)
--- Jacob Sebastian (M. Tech., Optical Engineering)
--- Abhishek Kumar (M. Tech., Optical Engineering)
--- Maanyash Jain (B. Tech., Aerospace)
Scienific/Technical Assistants
--- Anil Yadav (M.Sc., Physics)
--- Mitesh Bhavsar (ITI)
Post-doctoral fellows (Past and Present)
Dr. Diptiranjan Rout (Ph.D. @PRL) --- PRL; Clemson University (USA); NPDF (DST, availed < 1 yr);
GFZ (Germany, Humboldt
Fellowship); Assistant Professor (ISEE, Nagoya University, Japan), Scientist/Engineer at NARL, Gadanki, Tirupati
Dr. Kuldeep Pandey (Ph.D. @PRL) --- PRL; NPDF (DST, Couldn't avail); Nanabhoy Moos Research Fellowship (IIG, Couldn't avail), University of Saskatchewan (Canada), New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
Dr. Debrup Hui (Ph.D. @USU, USA) --- PRL; IIG; Associate Professor, GKCIET (West Bengal)
Dr. Sivakandan Mani (Ph.D. @NARL) --- PRL; Nagoya University; IAP (Germany, Humboldt Fellowship)
Dr. Sandeep Kumar (Ph. D. @IIG) --- PRL; Nagoya University (Japan); Nagoya University (Japan, ISEE
Fellowship), Nagoya University (Japan, JSPS Fellowship)
Dr. Suman Chakraborty (Ph. D. @ICSP) --- PRL; NPDF (DST, Couldn't avail); Northumbria University (UK)
Dr. Sumanjit Chakraborty (Ph.D. @IITi) --- PRL, Selected in IIG (Navi Mumbai)
Dr. Ankit Kumar (Ph.D. @PRL) --- PRL, Selected in FAPESP (Brazil)
Dr. Yogesh (Ph.D. @PRL) --- PRL, GSFC, NASA