Research Interests

• Astronomical Instrumentation
• Observational studies of novae and symbiotic systems

Academic Qualifications

• 2002, B.Sc. (Physics, Electronics and Maths), Ewing Christian College, University of Allahabad,India
• 2004, M.Sc. (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
• 2012, Ph.D. (Physics - Astronomical Instrumentation), Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics / University of Pune, Pune, India

Professional Experience

• Faculty (September 2014 - Present), Astronomy and Astrophysics Division, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, India
• Systems Engineer (December 2013 - August 2014), E-Beam Division, KLA-Tencor, Chennai, India
• Project Coordinator (February 2012 - November 2013), Instrumentation,Optra Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India
• Post Doctoral Fellow (January 2012 -February 2012), National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),Pune, India
• Post Doctoral Fellow (December 2010 - December 2011), Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), Germany

Publications/Proceedings

1. Ruchi Pandey, Mudit K. Srivastava, Arijit Maiti , Vipin Kumar , Ulisse Munari , S Dallaporta , A Vagnozzi , Dipankar P K Banerjee , Vishal Joshi , and Paolo Cazzato, Spectroscopic and photometric insights into the early evolution of Nova V6594 Sgr, 2025, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 540, Issue 4, July 2025, Pages 3549–3564
2. Ruchi Pandey, Mudit K. Srivastava, and Gargi Shaw, A phenomenological study of the evolution of shock-induced O i emission lines in the spectrum of nova V2891 Cygni, 2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 532, Issue 4, August 2024, Pages 3985–4001
3. Mudit K. Srivastava, Arijit Maiti, Vipin Kumar, Bhaveshkumar Mistry, Ankita Patel, Vaibhav Dixit, and Kevikumar Lad, Development of ProtoPol: a medium resolution echelle spectro-polarimeter for PRL 1.2m and 2.5m telescopes, Mt Abu, India,2024, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 13096, 130961V
4. Vipin Kumar, Arvind S. Rajpurohit, Mudit K. Srivastava, José G. Fernández-Trincado, and A. B. A. Queiroz , Exploring the short-term variability of H α and H β emissions in a sample of M dwarfs, 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 524, Issue 4, October 2023, Pages 6085–6101
5. Vipin Kumar, Arvind S. Rajpurohit and Mudit K. Srivastava, Exploring the short-term variability of H-alpha and H-beta emissions in a sample of M Dwarfs ,2022, Proceedings of the 21st Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (CS21), Toulouse, France, 04-08 July 2022, Edited By Edited by A. S. Brun, J. Bouvier, P. Petit
6. Vipin Kumar, Mudit K. Srivastava, Vaibhav Dixit,Bhaveshkumar Mistry, Kevikumar Lad, Ankita Patel, and Arvind S. Rajpurohit, Designs of Mt. Abu faint object spectrograph and camera - echelle polarimeter (M-FOSC-EP) and its prototype: spectro-polarimeters for PRL 1.2m and 2.5m Mt. Abu Telescopes, India ,2022, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, Proceedings of the SPIE, 121845B
7. Vipin Kumar, Mudit K. Srivastava, Dipankar P. K. Banerjee, C. E. Woodward, Ulisse Munari, Aneurin Evans, Vishal Joshi, Sergio Dallaporta, and Kim L Page , Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of Nova V2891 Cygni: Evidence for shock-induced dust formation, 2022, MNRAS, 510, 3, 2022, 4265–4283
8. E.W. Guenther, D. Woeckel, P. Chaturvedi, V. Kumar, M.K. Srivastava, and P. Muheki , The Flare-Activity of 2MASS J16111534-1757214 in the Upper Scorpius association , 2021, MNRAS, 507, 2, 2103–2114
9. Srivastava, Mudit K.; Kumar, Vipin; Dixit, Vaibhav; Patel, Ankita; Jangra, Mohanlal;Rajpurohit, A. S.; and Mathur, S. N , Design and development of Mt.Abu faint object spectrograph and camera – Pathfinder (MFOSC-P) for PRL 1.2m Mt. Abu Telescope , 2021, Experimental Astronomy, 51, 345–382
10. Kumar, Vipin; Srivastava, Mudit K.; Banerjee, Dipankar P. K. and Joshi, Vishal , UV spectroscopy confirms SU Lyn to be a symbiotic star , 2021, MNRAS-Letters, 500, L12-L16
11. A. S. Rajpurohit, Vipin Kumar, Mudit K. Srivastava, F. Allard, D. Homeier, Vaibhav Dixit and Ankita Patel , First results from MFOSC-P: low-resolution optical spectroscopy of a sample of M dwarfs within 100 parsecs , 2020, MNRAS, 492, 5844-5852
12. Banerjee, D. P. K.; Joshi, Vishal; Evans, A.; Srivastava, Mudit; Ashok, N. M.; Gehrz, R. D.; Connelley, M. S.; Geballe, T. R.; Spyromilio, J.; Rho, J.; Roy, R. , Early formation of carbon monoxide in the Centaurus A supernova SN 2016adj , 2018, MNRAS, 481, 1, 806-818
13. Mudit K. Srivastava; Mohanlal Jangra; Vaibhav Dixit; B.S. Munjal; Hemant Arora; Tejas Mavani , Design and development of Mt. Abu faint object spectrograph and camera-pathfinder (MFOSC-P) for PRL 1.2m Mt. Abu telescope, India , 2018, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. Proceedings of the SPIE, 107024I
14. Gehrz, R. D.; Evans, A.; Woodward, C. E.; Helton, L. A.; Banerjee, D. P. K.; Srivastava, M. K.; Ashok, N. M.; Joshi, V.; Eyres, S. P. S.; Krautter, Joachim; Kuin, N. P. M.; Page, K. L.; Osborne, J. P.; Schwarz, G. J.; Shenoy, D. P.; Shore, S. N.; Starrfield, S. G.; Wagner, R. M. , The Temporal Development of Dust Formation and Destruction in Nova Sagittarii 2015\#2 (V5668 SGR): A Panchromatic Study , 2018, ApJ, 858, 2, 78, 17
15. Banerjee, D. P. K.; Srivastava, Mudit K.; Ashok, N. M.; Munari, U.; Hambsch, F. -J.; Righetti, G. L.; Maitan, A. , Near-infrared and optical studies of the highly obscured nova V1831 Aquilae (Nova Aquilae 2015) , 2018, MNRAS, 473, 2, 1895-1908
16. Joshi, Vishal; Banerjee, D. P. K.; Srivastava, Mudit K. , Nova Ophiuchus 2017 as a Probe of 13C Nucleosynthesis and Carbon Monoxide Formation and Destruction in Classical Novae , 2017, ApJ-Letters, 851, 2, L30, 7
17. Mudit K. Srivastava, D. P. K. Banerjee N. M. Ashok, V. Venkataraman, D. Sand, and T. Diamond , Near Infrared studies of V2944 Ophiuchi (Nova Ophiuchi 2015) , 2016, MNRAS, 462, 12, 2074-2084
18. D. P. K. Banerjee, Mudit K. Srivastava, N. M. Ashok and V. Venkataraman , Near-infrared studies of the carbon monoxide and dust-forming Nova V5668 Sgr , 2016, MNRAS, 455, L109-L113
19. Mudit K. Srivastava, N. M. Ashok, D. P. K. Banerjee and D. Sand , Near-infrared studies during maximum and early decline of Nova Cephei 2014 and Nova Scorpii 2015 , 2015, MNRAS, 454, 1297-1309
20. Lizon, J. L.; Kelz, A.; Dupuy, C.; Accardo, M.; Reiss, R.; Deiries, S.; Fechner, T.; Srivastava, M.; Streicher, O.; Weilbacher, P.; Hinterschuster, Renate , A series of detector systems for MUSE , 2012, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8446, id. 844650-844650-10
21. Roth, Martin M.; Zenichowski, Karl; Tarcea, Nicolae; Popp, Jürgen; Adelhelm, Silvia; Stolz, Marvin; Kelz, Andreas; Sandin, Christer; Bauer, Svend-Marian; Fechner, Thomas; Jahn, Thomas; Popow, Emil; Roth, Bernhard; Singh, Paul; Srivastava, Mudit; Wolter, Dieter , The ERA2 facility: towards application of a fibre-based astronomical spectrograph for imaging spectroscopy in life sciences , 2012, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8450, id. 84501T-84501T-10
22. Kelz, Andreas; Bauer, Svend-Marian; Hahn, Thomas; Jahn, Thomas; Kosmalski, Johan; Laurent, Florence; Laux, Uwe; Larrieu, Marie; Loupias, Magali; Olaya, Jean-Christophe; Popow, Emil; Roth, Martin M.; Srivastava, Mudit; Streicher, Ole; Weilbacher, Peter; Bacon, Roland M. , Development and performance of the MUSE calibration unit , 2012, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8446, id. 84465T-84465T-10
23. Mudit K. Srivastava, A. N. Ramaprakash, Hillol K. Das, Mahesh P. Burse, Pravin A. Chordia, Abhay A. Kohok and Chaitanya V. Rajarshi , Design and Development of an Optical Fibre based Integral Field Unit (IFU) on IUCAA 2m Telescope , 2011, MNRAS, 418, 1127
24. Mudit K. Srivastava, A. N. Ramaprakash, Mahesh P. Burse, Pravin A. Chordia, Kalpesh S. Chillal, Vilas B. Mestry, Hillol K. Das and Abhay A. Kohok , TELICS-A Telescope Instrument Control System for Small/Medium Sized Astronomical Observatories , 2009, PSAP, 2009, 121, 1112
25. Mudit K. Srivastava, Swapnil M. Prabhudesai and Shyam N. Tandon , Studying the Imaging Characteristics of Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) through Numerical Simulations , 2009, PASP, 121, 621