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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: Origin, acceleration and properties
Suprathermal and Energetic particles in the Heliosphere: Origin and Acceleration
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling during Penetration electric field, IMF By, Disturbance Dynamo, Substorm events
Geomagnetic storm, Magnetospheric Substorms - Characteristics and impact
Ionospheric electrodynamics
Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling
Involvement in the Present and upcoming Space missions
Principal Investigator (PI) of a number of experiments on-board Indian space Missions. This includes
ASPEX on-board 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
Science PI of Venus Radiation Monitor (VeRad) payload (Primary) on-board Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM) of ISRO
Pi of Narrow band oxygen Airglow detection in Venusian Atmosphere (NAVA) payload (Secondary) on-board Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM) of ISRO
PaRticle Impact on Martian Environment (PRIME) in the Mars Lander Mission (MLM)
Also in the Science team of NIMS being considered for Chandrayaan-4
Other experiments and science motivations
Narrow spectral band, narrow FOV Airglow experiments (Signatures of prompt penetration/overshielding and substorm-induced electric field perturbations)
GPS/GNSS/IRNSS based TEC experiments (Global ionospheric responses to space weather events)
Rocket based Langmuir Probe experiments (Streaming and Gradient drift plasma instabilities in the equatorial ionosphere)
Publications
Papers in peer-reviewed journals: 114
This includes Review articles: 4; Chapter of a book: 1
Papers in proceedings: 12
Total Publications: 126
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 -
Member, PDR/CDR committee, Venus Orbirter Mission (VOM), 2025
Member, ISRO-IIG, Joint Working Group (JWG) on potential magnetospheric missions, 2025
Member, IIG Academic Committee, 2025-2027
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, Venus Science Working Group (VSWG), ISROm 2025 -
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
Member, AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy Fellows Committee (SPAFC), 2022-2024
Nominated as Member (ISRO), Executive Committee, International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA), 2024
Invited to make a presentation on ASPEX in the Global Space based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) GRWG SWx Sub-group meeting, 2024
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 selections/promotions/research proposals/awards for National institutes including IITs/IIG etc.
Member of ISRO team for a number of inter-agency (e.g. NOAA, NASA, ESA) discussions
Member, UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs) "Access to space for all'' curriculum Committee, 2022-2023
Chairman, Expert committee for evaluation of scientific equipment/instruments, IIG (Navi Mumbai), 2024
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: 7 (5 Completed, 2 Ongoing)
Past Doctoral students: 5
--- 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)
--- Bijoy Dalal (Supervisor, July, 2020 - July, 2024)
Present Doctoral students: 2
--- Aakash Gupta (Supervisor, Joined in September 2023)
--- Shivam Parashar (Supervisor, Joined in July 2024)
Post-doctoral fellows: 11 (9 Completed, 2 Ongoing)
Past Post-Docs: 9
--- 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. Yogesh (August, 2023 - December, 2023)
--- Dr. Ankit Kumar (September, 2022 - September 2024)
Present Post-Docs: 2
--- Dr. Bijoy Dalal (August, 2024 - )
--- Dr. Richa Naja Jain (December, 2024 - )
M. Tech/MS Thesis: 2
--- Ajay Kumar Yadav, IISER, Tirupati, 2024, Presently at Max Planck Institute, Germany
--- Aparupa Apsara Baruah, Dibrugarh University, 2025
Doctoral Study Committees: 21 (Past + Present)
Projects offered for Doctoral students (as part of orientation course
work): 31
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)
--- Tarun Tamrakar (B. E., Electronics and Telecommunications, M. Tech., VLSI Design and Embedded Systems
Scienific/Technical Assistants
--- Anil Yadav (M.Sc., Physics)
--- Mitesh Bhavsar (Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering)
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), NASA CCMC
Dr. Suman Chakraborty (Ph. D. @ICSP) --- PRL; NPDF (DST, Couldn't avail); Northumbria University (UK)
Dr. Sumanjit Chakraborty (Ph.D. @IITi) --- PRL, IIG (Navi Mumbai)
Dr. Yogesh (Ph.D. @PRL) --- PRL, GSFC, NASA
Dr. Ankit Kumar (Ph.D. @PRL) --- PRL, FAPESP (Brazil)
Dr. Bijoy Dalal (Ph.D. @PRL) --- PRL
Dr. Richa Naja Jain (Ph.D. @SPL, VSSC) --- PRL