Research Interests

• Upper atmospheres, ionospheres, and exospheres of planets
• Aeronomy, aurora, space weather, and heliophysics
• Atmospheric escape, evolution, and habitability
• Multispacecraft analysis of UV remote sensing & in-situ plasma and magnetic field data
• 2-D photochemical modeling of planetary thermospheres and ionospheres
• 3-D Monte Carlo particle transport modeling of planetary exospheres and atmospheric escape
• Spaceflight instrumentation and calibration

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. (Physics), Space Physics Laboratory / Cochin University of Science and Technology (Jul 2021)
  Thesis: Solar Energetic Particles Associated with Coronal Mass Ejections and Corotating Interaction Regions and their Influence on Martian Plasma Environment [Citation Details]
• M.Sc. (Physics), Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Calicut (May 2015)
• B.Sc. (Physics), Government Victoria College, Palakkad / University of Calicut (May 2013)

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Planetary Sciences Division, PRL, Ahmedabad, India (Aug 2025 – present)
• Research Scientist-II, LASP, University of Colorado Boulder, USA (Dec 2023 – Aug 2025)
• Research Scientist-I, LASP, University of Colorado Boulder, USA (Jul 2021 – Dec 2023)
• Professional Research Assistant, LASP, University of Colorado Boulder, USA (May 2021 – Jul 2021)
• Visiting Researcher, Space and Planetary Science Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE (May 2021 – Dec 2024)
• Visiting Scholar, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, USA (May 2021 – Dec 2023)
• Senior Research Fellow, Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC, ISRO, Thiruvananthapuram, India (Jun 2018 – Apr 2021)
• Junior Research Fellow, Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC, ISRO, Thiruvananthapuram, India (Jun 2016 – Jun 2018)
• Teaching Assistant (Physics), IIT Palakkad, India (Jul 2015 – Jun 2016)
• Visiting Student (Astronomy and Astrophysics), Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India (Jan 2015 – Jun 2015)
• Summer Student (Gravitation and Cosmology), IIT Madras, Chennai, India (May 2014 – Jul 2014)

Awards

• COSPAR Early Career Financial Support (2026)
• KU–CU/LASP Mars Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021)
• Best Paper Award — high–end workshop on Solar Activities and their Influences in the Heliosphere and Planetary Atmospheres (2021)
• SERB International Travel Support (2019)
• CSIR Foreign Travel Grant (2018)
• AGU Student Travel Grant (2018)
• ISRO Research Fellowship (2016)
• Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship (2014)

Publications

My publications can be found in Google Scholar and Scopus.

Student Opportunities

I welcome motivated students interested in planetary science and space physics to work with me at PRL. Applications can be made through the following programs:

• Summer Internship Program — short-term research experience during the summer.
• Academic Project Training — for those wishing to carry out their academic project or dissertation (e.g., B.Tech/M.Sc.) at PRL.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to review the eligibility criteria and application procedure on the official pages above, and to reach out to me by email with a CV and research interests. Programming experience (e.g., Python) is highly desirable.