Dr. M. Shanmugam

Education

Employment

Awards & Honours

• 2024 Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar — Vigyan Team Award as part of ISRO Chandrayaan-3 team, recognising scientific and technological achievements.
• 2024 COSPAR Grant (€1,200) — COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Busan, South Korea, July 13–21.
• 2023 ASI Zubin-Kembhavi Award — Astronomical Society of India award (₹1 lakh + plaque) for "Global elemental mapping of lunar surface by payloads of Chandrayaan-2".
• 2022 COSPAR Grant (€1,200) — COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Athens, Greece, July 16–24.
• 2016 Best Paper Award — NSSS-2016 for "Supra Thermal Energetic Particle Spectrometer onboard Aditya-L1 Mission".
• 2011 Career Development Award (USD 1,200) — Selected to attend Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC-42), Houston, USA.
• 2009 COSPAR Fellow — Capacity Building Workshop on "Lunar and Planetary Surface Science", Harbin, China.
• 2008 ISRO Team Excellence Award — Chandrayaan-1 payload instruments, for being a core member of the payload development team.
• 2008 Third Prize — National Science Symposium for paper "Characterization and selection of CZT detectors for HEX experiment onboard Chandrayaan-1".

Major Responsibilities & Missions

• 1 HEX · Chandrayaan-1: System Engineer for the High Energy X-ray Spectrometer (20–300 keV, CZT detector) flown on India's first lunar mission. Developed in collaboration with URSC Bangalore; delivered June 2008.
• 2 XSM · Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter (Deputy Project Director): Overall responsibility for the Solar X-ray Monitor (1–15 keV, 175 eV at 5.9 keV). Novel design capable of handling X-class flare count rates. Generated extensive high-quality publications including microflare discoveries with sensitivity two orders of magnitude better than GOES.
• 3 APXS · Chandrayaan-2/3: Overall responsibility for the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer using Silicon Drift Detector (0.8–26 keV, 135 eV resolution at 5.9 keV). Aims at measuring elemental composition of lunar soil. Post-landing elemental composition measurements at ~30 locations along the rover traverse covering ~100 m near the lunar south pole. Consistent performance throughout the lunar day. Results published in Nature.
• 4 ASPEX · Aditya-L1 (Deputy Project Director): Overall responsibility for the Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment comprising SWIS (100 eV–20 keV, MCP detectors) and STEPS (20 keV–5 MeV, Si PIN + Scintillators). Both subsystems delivered late 2022; STEPS powered ON 10 Sept. 2023 and SWIS on 2 Nov. 2023; performing satisfactorily at L1 halo orbit.
• 5 Venus Orbiter Mission (Instrument PI): Proposed and leading two instruments — Venus Radiation Environment Monitor (VeRad, 20 keV–100 MeV, Si PIN stack) and Venus Solar Soft X-ray Spectrometer (VS3, 1–80 keV, SDD + CdTe). First such measurements planned around Venus.
• 6 ISRO-JAXA LUPEX Mission: Part of the team proposing XRS (1–30 keV, SDD), GRS (30 keV–3 MeV, CeBr₃) and APS (1–10 MeV, Si PIN) for surface/subsurface elemental composition studies near permanently shadowed lunar regions.
• 7 Technology Firsts: First in India to develop an SDD-based X-ray spectrometer with ~135 eV resolution at 5.9 keV for space; novel in-orbit leakage-current measurement technique (no additional hardware); miniaturised hybrid front-end electronics; 5-channel SDD array with simultaneous readout (<150 eV at 5.9 keV).
• 8 Other Leadership Roles: Associate Project Director for DISHA Aeronomy mission payloads; Engineering Lead for PRATHIMA on LUPEX Rover and other upcoming instruments in various mission being developed at PRL.

Selected Invited Talks

• ISRO Induction Training Programme (IITP), December 2025 — "Scientific Instruments for Planetary Studies"
• ISRO Structural Training Program (ISRO-STP 2025), November 2025 — "Important aspects of Planetary Instrumentation"
• National Space Day, Silver Oak University, Ahmedabad, 2025 — "Beyond Blue Skies: PRL's contribution to planetary exploration"
• Basic Training on Space Weather, Defence Space Agency (DSA) at PRL, September 2025 — "Moon Missions – Chandrayaan 1/2/3"
• CSSTEAP Online Course on Planetary Science, May–June 2025 — "Planetary Instrumentation"
• ISRO Induction Training Programme, August 2023 — "XSM and APXS on Ch-2/Ch-3"
• ASPEX Science Meeting (SIMA-01), SPL/VSSC, April 2023 — "Aditya Solar wind and Particle Experiment (ASPEX)"
• Association of Indian Physicists, October 2023 — "Exploring Chandrayaan-3: Advancements in Lunar Exploration"
• MetMeSS, November 2023 — "APXS on Chandrayaan-3 Rover: first in-situ elemental measurement on lunar south pole"
• DST-KARYASHALA High-End Workshop, July 2022 — "PRL Payloads"
• Indian Planetary Science Conference, March 2023 — "Planetary Exploration using X-ray Instruments"
• Michael Faraday IET International Summit, Kolkata, September 2015 — Plenary: "Space Instrumentation"
• PLANEX Workshop, March 2016 — "APXS onboard Chandrayaan-2 Rover"
• ISRO STP for Scientists/Engineers, January 2015 — "Alpha Particle Induced X-ray Spectrometer for planetary exploration"
• PLANEX Workshop, February 2009 — "HEX onboard Chandrayaan-1 Mission"

28 invited talks total · includes plenary, national and international venues

📄 Journal Publications

1. Jacob Sebastian, Bijoy Dalal, Aakash Gupta, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Santosh V. Vadawale, M. Shanmugam, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Arpit R. Patel, Aveek Sarkar, Aaditya Sarda, Tinkal Ladiya, Prashant Kumar, Manan S. Shah, Abhishek Kumar, Shivam Parashar, Pranav R. Adhyaru, Hiteshkumar L. Adalja, Piyush Sharma, Abhishek J. Verma, Nishant Singh, Sushil Kumar, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Swaroop B. Banerjee, K. P. Subramaniam, Bhas Bapat, M. B. Dadhania, P. Janardhan, Anil Bhardwaj

   "One Year of ASPEX-STEPS Operation: Characteristic Features, Observations and Science Potential"

   J. Astrophys. Astr. (2025, accepted)JAA
2. Shivam Parashar, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Prashant Kumar, Abhishek Kumar, Bhas Bapat, Aveek Sarkar, P. Janardhan, Anil Bhardwaj, Santosh V. Vadawale, Manan S. Shah, Hiteshkumar L. Adalja, Arpit R. Patel, Pranav R. Adhyaru, M. Shanmugam, Swaroop B. Banerjee, K. P. Subramanian, Tinkal Ladiya, Jacob Sebastian, Bijoy Dalal, Aakash Gupta, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Aaditya Sarda, Sushil Kumar, Nishant Singh, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Piyush Sharma, Abhishek J. Verma, M. B. Dadhania

   "Evidence for in situ particle energization during the May-2024 event based on ASPEX instrument on board Aditya-L1"

   The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2025, accepted)ApJL
3. Aakash Gupta, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Santosh Vadawale, Aveek Sarkar, Bijoy Dalal, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Jacob Sebastian, P. Janardhan, Nandita Srivastava, M. Shanmugam, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Aaditya Sarda, Piyush Sharma, Anil Bhardwaj, Prashant Kumar, Manan S. Shah, Bhas Bapat, Pranav R. Adhyaru, Arpit R. Patel, Hitesh Kumar Adalja, Abhishek Kumar, Tinkal Ladiya, Sushil Kumar, Nishant Singh, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Abhishek J. Verma, Swaroop Banerjee, K. P. Subramanian, M. B. Dadhania

   "Multi-directional investigations on quiet time suprathermal ions measured by ASPEX-STEPS on-board Aditya L1"

   The Astrophysical Journal 995:92, 2025. DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ae1a46ApJ
4. Prashant Kumar, Bhas Bapat, Manan S. Shah, Hiteshkumar L. Adalja, Arpit R. Patel, Pranav R. Adhyaru, M. Shanmugam, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Swaroop B. Banerjee, K.P. Subramanian, Aveek Sarkar, Tinkal Ladiya, Jacob Sebastian, Abhishek Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Nishant Singh, M.B. Dadhania, Santosh V. Vadawale, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Aaditya Sarda, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Piyush Sharma, Abhishek J. Verma, Yogesh, P. Janardhan, Anil Bhardwaj

   "Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) on Board Aditya-L1: The Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS)"

   Solar Physics, Volume 300, 37, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-025-02443-xSolar Phys.
5. Shiv Kumar Goyal, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Arpit R. Patel, M. Shanmugam, Santosh V. Vadawale, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Jacob Sebastian, Bijoy Dalal, Piyush Sharma, Aveek Sarkar, Aaditya Sarda, Tinkal Ladiya, Abhishek J. Verma, Nishant Singh, Sushil Kumar, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Prashant Kumar, Manan S. Shah, Pranav R. Adhyaru, Hiteshkumar L. Adalja, Swaroop B. Banerjee, K.P. Subramanian, Bhas Bapat, M.B. Dadhania, Abhishek Kumar, P. Janardhan, Anil Bhardwaj

   "Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment on Board Aditya-L1: The Supra-Thermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer"

   Solar Physics, Volume 300, 35, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-025-02441-zSolar Phys.
6. Jacob Sebastian, Abhishek Kumar, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Prashant Kumar, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Santosh Vadawale, M. Shanmugam, M. Hasan, Aveek Sarkar, Bijoy Dalal, Aakash Gupta, Shivam Parashar, Bhas Bapat, Manan Shah, Pranav R Adhyaru, Arpit R. Patel, Hitesh Kumar Adalja, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Aaditya Sarda, Piyush Sharma, Tinkal Ladiya, Sushil Kumar, Nishant Singh, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Abhishek J Verma, Swaroop Banerjee, K. P. Subramanian, M. B. Dadhania, P. Janardhan, A. Bhardwaj

   "Comparison of Solar Wind flux and bulk parameters obtained from Aditya L1-ASPEX with Wind-3DP-PESA-L and ACE-EPAM"

   GSICS, Vol. 18 (4), 2025. doi: 10.25923/gmzc-9a28
7. Rishitosh K. Sinha, Neha Panwar, Neeraj Srivastava, Dwijesh Ray, N.P.S. Mithun, Kuljeet K. Marhas, S. Vijayan, Megha Bhatt, Arpit R. Patel, M. Shanmugam, Santosh V. Vadawale, Anil Bhardwaj

   "Primitive lunar mantle materials at the Chandrayaan-3 landing site"

   Nature Communications Earth & Environment 6, 321, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02305-1Nature
8. Nishant Singh, M. Shanmugam, Arpit Patel, Sushil Kumar, Deepak K. Painkra, Tinkal Ladiya, S. Vadawale

   "Characterization of Multichannel SDD X-Ray Spectrometer with ASIC Readout"

   Advances in Space Research, Volume 75 (7), 5630–5639, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2025.01.019
9. M. Shanmugam, S. V. Vadawale, Arpit R. Patel, N. P. S. Mithun, Hitesh kumar, Tinkal Ladiya, S. K. Goyal, Neeraj K. Tiwari, Nishant Singh, Sushil Kumar, Deepak Kumar Painkra, A. K. Hait, A. Patinge, Abhishek Kumar, Saleem Basha, Anil Bhardwaj

   "Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) on Chandrayaan-3 Pragyan Rover"

   J. Astrophys. Astr. (JOAA), 2024JAA
10. Santosh V. Vadawale, N. P. S. Mithun, M. Shanmugam, Amit Basu Sarbadhikari, Rishitosh K. Sinha, Megha Bhatt, S. Vijayan, Neeraj Srivastava, Anil D. Shukla, S. V. S. Murty, Anil Bhardwaj, Y. B. Acharya, Arpit R. Patel, Hiteshkumar L. Adalaja, C. S. Vaishnava, B. S. Bharath Saiguhan, Nishant Singh, Sushil Kumar, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Yash Srivastava, Varsha M. Nair, Tinkal Ladiya, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Neeraj K. Tiwari, Shyama Narendranath, Netra S. Pillai, Arup Kumar Hait, Aaditya Patinge, Abhishek Kumar, Neeraj Satya, Vivek R. Subramanian, Sonal G. Navle, R. G. Venkatesh, Lalitha Abraham, K. Suresh, Amitabh

    "Chandrayaan-3 APXS elemental abundance measurements at lunar high latitude"

    Nature 633, 327–331, 2024. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07870-7Nature
11. S. Vijayan, K.B. Kimi, Anil Chavan, R. Aditi, U. Thahira, V. Rama Subramanian, Rishitosh K. Sinha, Amitabh, Santosh Vadawale, M. Shanmugam, N.P.S. Mithun, Arpit R. Patel, S. Amit Basu, K.V. Iyer, K. Suresh, Ajay Prashar, G. Rima, Anil Bhardwaj

    "Chandrayaan-3 landing site evolution by South Pole-Aitken basin and other impact craters"

    Icarus 425, 116325, 2025. doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116329
12. Shanmugam, M., Vadawale, Santosh V., Patel, Arpit R., Adalaja, Hitesh Kumar, Mithun, N. P. S., Ladiya, Tinkal, Goyal, Shiv Kumar, Tiwari, Neeraj K., Singh, Nishant, Kumar, Sushil, Painkra, Deepak Kumar, Acharya, Y. B., Bhardwaj, Anil, Hait, A. K., Patinge, A., Kapoor, Abinandhan, Kumar, H. N. Suresh, Satya, Neeraj, Saxena, Gaurav, Arvind, Kalpana

    "Solar X-ray Monitor onboard Chandrayaan-2 orbiter"

    Current Science, Vol. 118, No.1, pp. 45–52, 2020. doi: 10.18520/cs/v118/i1/45-52Curr. Sci.
13. Shanmugam, M., Vadawale, Santosh V., Patel, Arpit R., Mithun, N. P. S., Adalaja, Hitesh Kumar, Ladiya, Tinkal, Goyal, Shiv Kumar, Tiwari, Neeraj K., Singh, Nishant, Kumar, Sushil, Painkra, Deepak Kumar, Hait, A. K., Patinge, A., Kumar, Abhishek, Basha, Saleem, Subramanian, Vivek R., Venkatesh, R. G., Prashant, D. B., Navle, Sonal, Acharya, Y. B., Murty, S. V. S., Bhardwaj, Anil

    "Alpha Particle X-ray spectrometer onboard Chandrayaan-2 Rover – Pragyan"

    Current Science, Vol. 118, No.1, pp. 53–61, 2020. doi: 10.18520/cs/v118/i1/53-61Curr. Sci.
14. Mithun, N. P. S., Vadawale, Santosh V., Shanmugam, M., Patel, Arpit R., Singh, Nishant, Kumar, Sushil, Tiwari, Neeraj K., Shiv Kumar Goyal, Amit Basu Sarbadhikari, Garima Arora, Yash Srivastava, Hitesh Kumar Adalja, Tinkal Ladiya, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Swaroop B. Banerjee, Vishnubhai R. Patel, Anil Bhardwaj

    "Calibration of Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) onboard Chandrayaan-2 Pragyan rover: Empirical approach"

    Planetary and Space Sciences, Vol. 187, 104923, 2020. doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2020.104923
15. Mithun, N. P. S., Vadawale, Santosh V., Sarkar, Aveek, Shanmugam, M., Patel, Arpit R., Mondal, Biswajit, Joshi, Bhuwan, Janardhan, P., Adalja, Hiteshkumar L., Goyal, Shiv Kumar, Ladiya, Tinkal, Tiwari, Neeraj Kumar, Singh, Nishant, Kumar, Sushil, Tiwari, Manoj K., Modi, M. H., Bhardwaj, Anil

    "Solar X-Ray Monitor On-board the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter: In-flight Performance and Science Prospects"

    Solar Physics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-020-01712-1Solar Phys.
16. Vadawale, Santosh V., Mondal, Biswajit, Mithun, N. P. S., Sarkar, Aveek, Janardhan, P., Joshi, Bhuwan, Bhardwaj, Anil, Shanmugam, M., Patel, Arpit R., Adalja, Hitesh Kumar L., Goyal, Shiv Kumar, Ladiya, Tinkal, Tiwari, Neeraj Kumar, Singh, Nishant, Kumar, Sushil

    "Observations of the Quiet Sun During the Deepest Solar Minimum of the Past Century with Chandrayaan-2 XSM — Elemental Abundances in the Quiescent Corona"

    ApJL, 912:L12, 2021ApJL
17. Vadawale, Santosh V., Mithun, N. P. S., Mondal, Biswajit, Sarkar, Aveek, Janardhan, P., Joshi, Bhuwan, Bhardwaj, Anil, Shanmugam, M., Patel, Arpit R., Adalja, Hitesh Kumar L., Goyal, Shiv Kumar, Ladiya, Tinkal, Tiwari, Neeraj Kumar, Singh, Nishant, Kumar, Sushil

    "Observations of the Quiet Sun During the Deepest Solar Minimum of the Past Century with Chandrayaan-2 XSM — Sub-A Class Microflares Outside Active Regions"

    ApJL, 912:L13, 2021ApJL
18. Mithun, N. P. S., Vadawale, S. V., Patel, A. R., Shanmugam, M., Chakrabarty, D., Konar, P., Sarvaiya, T. N., Padia, G. D., Sarkar, A., Kumar, P., Jangid, P., Sarda, A., Shah, M. S., Bhardwaj, A.

    "Data Processing Software for Chandrayaan-2 Solar X-ray Monitor"

    Astronomy & Computing, 34:100449, 2021
19. Mithun, N. P. S., Vadawale, Santosh V., Shanmugam, M., Patel, Arpit R., Tiwari, Neeraj Kumar, Adalja, Hiteshkumar L., Goyal, Shiv Kumar, Ladiya, Tinkal, Singh, Nishant, Kumar, Sushil, Tiwari, Manoj K., Modi, M. H., Mondal, Biswajit, Sarkar, Aveek, Joshi, Bhuwan, Janardhan, P., Bhardwaj, Anil

    "Ground Calibration of Solar X-ray Monitor on board the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter"

    Experimental Astronomy, 51:1, 2021
20. M. Shanmugam, S. V. Vadawale, A. R. Patel, S. K. Goyal, T. Ladiya, Y. B. Acharya, Pal, S., Nanal, V.

    "Investigation of Particle induced radiation damage to Silicon Drift Detector onboard Chandrayaan-2 mission"

    JINST (2020). doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/01/P01002JINST
21. M. Shanmugam, Y. B. Acharya, H. S. Mazumdar, S. V. Vadawale

    "Experimental characterization of Silicon Drift Detector for X-ray spectrometry: Comparison with theoretical estimation"

    Measurements, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.measurement.2016.05.042Meas.
22. M. Shanmugam, Y. B. Acharya, S. V. Vadawale, H. S. Mazumdar

    "A new technique for measuring the leakage current in Silicon Drift Detector based X-ray spectrometer – Implications for on-board calibration"

    JINST 10 P02009, 2015. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/10/02/P02009JINST
23. M. Shanmugam, Y. B. Acharya, S. V. Vadawale, H. S. Mazumdar

    "Radiation effects on Silicon Drift Detector based X-ray spectrometer on-board Chandrayaan-2 Mission"

    JINST 10 P09005, 2015. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/10/09/P09005JINST
24. T. Chattopadhyay, S. V. Vadawale, M. Shanmugam, S. K. Goyal

    "Measurement of low energy detection efficiency of a plastic scintillator: Implications on the low energy limit and sensitivity of a Hard X-ray focal plane Compton polarimeter"

    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 212:12, 2014
25. S. K. Goyal, P. Kumar, P. Janardhan, S. V. Vadawale, A. Sarkar, M. Shanmugam, K. P. Subramanian, B. Bapat, D. Chakrabarty, P. R. Adhyaru, A. R. Patel, S. B. Banerjee, Manan S. Shah, Neeraj K. Tiwari, H. L. Adalja, T. Ladiya, M. B. Dadhania, A. Sarda, A. K. Hait, M. Chauhan, R. R. Bhavsar

    "Aditya Solar wind & Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) onboard Aditya-L1 mission"

    Planetary and Space Sciences, 2018. doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2018.04.008
26. T. Chattopadhyay, S. V. Vadawale, S. K. Goyal, Mithun N. P. S., A. R. Patel, R. Shukla, T. Ladiya, M. Shanmugam, V. R. Patel, G. P. Ubale

    "Development of a Hard X-ray focal plane Compton Polarimeter: A compact polarimetric configuration with Scintillators and Siphotomultipliers"

    Experimental Astronomy, 2015. Doi: 10.1007/s10686-015-9481-y
27. M. Shanmugam, S.V.S. Murty, Y.B. Acharya, S.K. Goyal, Arpit R. Patel, Bhumi Shah, A.K. Hait, Aditya Patinge, D. Subrahmanyam

    "Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) on-board Chandrayaan-2 rover"

    J. Adv. Space Res. (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2013.03.011
28. S.V. Vadawale, M. Shanmugam, Y.B. Acharya, A.R. Patel, S.K. Goyal, B. Shah, A.K. Hait, A. Patinge, D. Subrahmanyam

    "Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) on-board Chandrayaan-2 orbiter"

    J. Adv. Space Res. (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2013.06.002
29. S.V. Vadawale, P. Sreekumar, Y.B. Acharya, M. Shanmugam, D. Banerjee, J.N. Goswami, N. Bhandari, C.N. Umapathy, M.R. Sharma, A. Tyagi, M. Bug, M. Sudhakar, L. Abraham

    "Hard X-ray continuum from lunar surface: Results from High Energy X-ray spectrometer (HEX) onboard Chandrayaan-1"

    J. Adv. Space Res. (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2013.06.013
30. M. Shanmugam, S. Vadawale, Y. B. Acharya, V. Mishra, P. N. Patel, S. K. Goyal

    "Design and performance evaluation of SDD based X-ray spectrometer for future planetary exploration"

    Radiation Measurements, Vol. 47, pp. 375–382, 2012
31. M. Shanmugam, Y. B. Acharya, V. Mishra, P. N. Patel, S. K. Goyal

    "A Compact X-ray Spectrometer using Silicon Drift Detector"

    Journal of Sensors & Transducers, Vol. 138 (3), pp. 22–34, 2012
32. M. Shanmugam, Y.B. Acharya, Harshad Patel

    "CdZnTe: The new technology semiconductor detector based nuclear instrument for medical and industrial application"

    J. Instrum. Soc. India 37(4) 249–257, 2009
33. P. Sreekumar, Y. B. Acharya, C. N. Umapathy, M. Ramakrishna Sharma, M. Shanmugam, A. Tyagi, Kumar, S. Vadawale, M. Sudhakar, L. Abraham, R. Kulkani, S. Purohit, R. L. Premlatha, D. Banerjee, M. Bug, J. N. Goswami

    "High Energy X-ray Spectrometer on Chandrayaan-1"

    Current Science, Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 520–525, 2009Curr. Sci.
34. S.V. Vadawale, S. Purohit, M. Shanmugam, Y.B. Acharya, J.N. Goswami, M. Sudhakar, P. Sreekumar

    "Characterization and selection of CZT detector modules for HEX experiment Onboard Chandrayaan-1"

    Nucl. Instr. Meth., vol. 598, pp. 485–495, 2009
35. M. Ramakrishna Sharma, C.N. Umapathy, Ravi Kulkarni, Prema latha, Anurag Tyagi, Manoj Bug, Lalitha Abraham, Manju Sudhakar, P. Sreekumar, M. Shanmugam, Y. B. Acharya, Santhosh Vadawale, D. Banerjee, S. Purohit, J.N Goswami, D.V Subhedar

    "High Energy X-ray (HEX) Spectrometer onboard Chandrayaan-1"

    Bull. Astr. Soc. India, 2009
36. J.N. Goswami, D. Banerjee, N. Bhandari, M. Shanmugam, Y.B. Acharya, D. V. Subhedar, M. R. Sharma, C. N. Umapathy, P. Sreekumar, M. Sudhakar, L. Abraham, P. C. Agrawal

    "High energy X-γ ray spectrometer on the Chandrayaan-1 mission to Moon"

    J. Earth Syst. Sci. 114, No. 6, pp. 733–738, 2005

38 journal publications total | 15 conference papers | 40+ international conference proceedings | 50+ national conference proceedings·

Teaching & Courses

• Course on Instrumentation for PhD students, PRL — 2014, 2018, 2023
• PLANEX Summer School — Space Instrumentation and Radiation Detectors, 2019
• CSSTEAP Online Course — Fundamentals of Planetary Instrumentation, May 2023 & 2025

Students & Project Supervision

Has supervised students and project personnel across multiple levels — guiding research from instrument design through to flight delivery.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Co-Chair, Scientific Organizing Committee, ISRO-STP 2025
• Co-Chair, IT-Cyber Security Committee (IT-CSC), PRL — 2022
• Co-Chair, eLORA portfolio (AERB/BARC radioactive source oversight), PRL — 2022
• Alt. Chair, Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC-I), PRL — 2022
• Member, Design Review Committee for Radio Occultation Experiment, MOM-2 — 2018
• Member, Interview & Selection Committees — JRF, RA, Project Engineer (multiple years)
• Reviewer — PLANEX proposals (2013), RESPOND proposals (2015), VISION (2019)
• Expert Member, Promotion Review Committees, SAC and IPR
• Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, SIMA-01 Workshop, SPL/VSSC — 2023
• Chaired / Co-chaired sessions at IGC 2020, IPSC 2020 & 2021, NSSS 2022, ICPEH 2024, DSA Space Weather Training 2025