Research Interests

• Heating of solar corona and transition region
• Solar UV and EUV spectroscopy
• Propagation and dissipation of MHD waves in the solar atmosphere
• Small-scale transients in the solar atmosphere
• Dynamics of solar chromosphere, transition region and corona
• Imaging and spectroscopic instrumentations

Academic Qualifications

• 2011     Ph.D. (Physics)     I.I.A., Bangalore under Joint Astronomy Program (JAP), I.I.Sc., Bangalore
• 2005     M.Sc. (Physics)     Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
• 2003     B.Sc. (Physics)     University of Mumbai, Mumbai
• 2000     H.S.C. (Science)   Maharashtra State Board, Mumbai

Professional Experience

• Jan 2024--Present      Associate Professor      Physical Research Laboratory
• Oct 2018 -- Dec 2023     Assistant Professor       Physical Research Laboratory
• Apr 2018--Sept 2018     CSC Rutherford Fellow        University of Cambridge
• Sept 2013--March 2018    DST-INSPIRE Faculty      IUCAA, Pune
• Aug 2011--Aug 2013      Post-Doctoral Fellow       MPS, Goettingen

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

• Grant to visit EUI PI team at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), Brussels under Guest Investigator Program--2025.
• Awarded Rutherford Fellowship 2018 tenable at the University of Cambridge by Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) for 23 months.
• Awarded the Parvez Guzdar Young Scientist Award 2017 instituted by the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Bhat, Gandhinagar.
• Awarded the Justice Oak Best Thesis Award for the year 2011 by Astronomical Society of India (ASI) at 32nd meeting of ASI, 20--22 March, 2014, IISER, Mohali.
• Awarded INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, 2013 (Session-I).
• Awarded best poster presentation in 'From the Heliosphere into the Sun' conference, 2012, Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Awarded best poster presentation in the meeting of Astronomical Society of India-2009.
• Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (NET-JRF Dec-2004) conducted by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
• INSPIRE Research Grant: Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, Amount: INR 35 Lakh, 2013--2018.
• ESA travel grant to attend Hinode-12 meeting 2018, IAU travel grant 2016, Hinode travel grant to attend Hinode-10 meeting 2016, COSPAR travel grant 2010.

Recent Publications

1. Investigating the propagation of small-scale flare energy in the lower and upper atmosphere of solar active region
   Gupta, Girjesh, Rawat, Ananya, Mason, H., Erdélyi, R., 2026, MNRAS, Published online, arXiv:2603.21605
2. Understanding the magnetic field and plasma-β along umbral fan loops traced using 3 minute slow waves
   Rawat, Ananya, Gupta, Girjesh, Van Doorsselaere, T., Krishna Prasad, S., Erdélyi, R., 2025, ApJ Letters, 988, L26, arXiv:2507.16283
3. Effect of area divergence and frequency on damping of slow magnetoacoustic waves propagating along umbral fan loops
   Rawat, Ananya, Gupta, Girjesh, 2024, MNRAS, 533, 1166, arXiv:2407.21561
4. Exploring magnetic coupling of solar atmosphere through frequency modulations of 3-min slow magnetoacoustic waves
   Rawat, Ananya, Gupta, Girjesh, 2024, BSRSL, 93, 948, arXiv:2309.02398
5. Exploring source region of 3-min slow magnetoacoustic waves observed in coronal fan loops rooted in sunspot umbra
   Rawat, Ananya, Gupta, Girjesh, 2023, MNRAS, 525, 4815, arXiv:2308.03490
6. Spectroscopic and imaging observations of transient hot and cool loops by IRIS and SDO
   Gupta, Girjesh, Nayak, Sushree, 2022, MNRAS, 512, 3149, arXiv:2203.03529
7. Hinode EIS line widths in the quiet corona up to 1.5 Rsun
   Del Zanna, G., Gupta, G. R., Mason, H. E., 2019, A&A, 631, 163, arXiv:1905.09783
8. Exploring the damping of Alfvén waves along a long off-limb coronal loop, up to 1.4 Rsun
   Gupta, G. R., Del Zanna, G., Mason, H. E., 2019, A&A, 627, 62, arXiv:1905.08194
9. Observation and Modeling of Chromospheric Evaporation in a Coronal Loop Related to Active Region Transient Brightening
   Gupta, G. R., Sarkar, A., Tripathi, D., 2018, ApJ, 857, 137, arXiv:1803.11172
10. Direct observations of different sunspot waves influenced by umbral flashes
    Sharma, A., Gupta, G. R., Tripathi, D., Kashyap, V., Pathak, A., 2017, ApJ, 850, 206, arXiv:1710.08438
11. Spectroscopic evidence of Alfvén wave damping in the off-limb solar corona
    Gupta, G. R., 2017, ApJ, 836, 4, arXiv:1612.09551

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