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rich thermally fissile isotopes, which may be helpful to generate nuclear energywith the help of a nuclear reactor technology. Sargam M. Mulay, who has completed Bachelors' (2010) andMasters' (2012) degrees in Physics, both from the Savitribai Phule Pune University. She was working as a Junior Research Fellow (2013-2014) at IUCAA under the Department of Science and Technology sponsored research project. Then she moved to the University of Cambridge, UK (2014-2017) to do her PhD at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Centre for Mathematical Sciences. During PhD, her research was focused on understanding the temperature structure of active region jets, which have been observed in the solar atmosphere. She worked on radio, X- ray, UV imaging and spectroscopic observations using several space- based observatories, such as the SDO (AIA, HMI), Hinode (EIS, XRT), RHESSI, IRIS andWIND/Waves. Since June 2018, she joined as a Post- Doctoral Fellow at IUCAA and working with the solar group. Her current research is focused on the initiation and eruption of flux ropes in the solar atmosphere. Sreejith Padinhatteeri, who works in the field of solar physics, and astronomical instrumentation. He has obtained Bachelors' degree in Physics from the University of Calicut, Kozhikode, and Masters' degree from IIT-Madras, Chennai. He did his PhD thesis titled: Formation and Evolution of Magnetic Structures on the Sun from Space Astronomy Group (SAG) of ISRO Satellite Centre (now renamed as Prof. U.R. Rao Satellite Center), Bengaluru, in 2014, and later worked as ResearchAssociate at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and at Manipal Center for Natural Sciences, Manipal. He joined IUCAAas a Post-Doctoral Fellow in February 2018 towork primarily on the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, being developed at IUCAAas part ofAditya-L1 satellite project. Abhishek Paswan , who has joined IUCAA as a Post- Doctoral Fellow in September 2018. He has obtained BSc (2009) and MSc (2011) degrees, both from the University of Allahbad, and completed PhD from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital. His primarily area of research is to study the galaxy formation and evolution. During PhD, he worked on nearby/local Wolf-Rayet galaxies to understand the star formation scenario by constraining the SFR, chemical abundances and mechanisms responsible for regulating star formation (e.g., galaxy tidal interactions/mergers andAGN feedback) in them. Currently, he has been looking at the physical phenomenon related to star formation scenario in high redshift star forming galaxies at z ~ 1 – 2, where the systems are found at the peak of cosmic SFRdensity. Pramod Pawar, who has joined IUCAA as a Post- Doctoral Fellow inApril 2018. He completed Bachelors' (2007) Masters' (2010) and PhD (2017) degrees in Physics, all from Swamy Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded. During PhD, his research was concentrated on the study of X-ray/optical observations of AGN, focussing on the interplay between the emissions from the accretion disk/corona. He has used the space-borne observational facilities, like, XMM-Newton, Swift, NuStar, and Chandra. He was also involved in the ground calibration of CZTI instrument onboard AstroSat. Currently, he is involved in the study of a sample of AGN observed with AstroSat, and also in the calibration of the SXT instrument to improve its response. Jayashree Roy, who has joined IUCAA as a Post- Doctoral Fellow (PDF) in July 2018. She obtained BSc (2002), MSc (2004), and PhD (2011) degrees in Physics, all from Gauhati University, Guwahati. During PhD, she worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, on testing, calibration and characterization of Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) on board AstroSat, and timing and spectral studies of X-ray binaries (XRBs) using space-based X-ray observatories. She had spent 2 years as PDF at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru. Her research at IIA was focused on Hanle Echelle Spectrograph (HESP) instrumentation, which has been installed at HCT, Hanle. Further, she has spent 5 years as PDF and Visiting Faculty at UM-DAE Center for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CEBS), Mumbai. Other than the study of XRBs, she was teachingAstronomy course at CEBS. Currently, she isworking on timing and spectral. Santosh Roy, who has joined IUCAAas a Post-Doctoral Fellow in February 2018. He has obtained BSc (2002) degree fromRamakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, and subsequently joined SNBNCBS, Kolkata, as an Integrated PhD student. He completed his PhD thesis work in 2013. His topic of research was focused on collective and single particle excitations of the atomic nuclei. Immediately after PhD, he has worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in nuclear instrumentation projects at KVI-CART, Netherlands, and GSI, Germany. In his second post-doc stint at TIFR, Mumbai, he has primarily worked in the development of scintillator detectors. Subsequently, he has served as a Research Faculty at Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences. Here, his main responsibilities included, development and construction of a 50-KeV ion accelerator, and construction of a liquid Argon scintillator detector for studying weakly interacting particles. He is excited to join LIGO-India project to work on the various aspects of the instrumentation, viz, UHV components, and seismic isolators. Zahir Ahmad Shah , who has joined IUCAA as a Post- Doctoral Fellow in September 2018. He has obtained BSc (2009), MSc (2011), MPhil (2014), and PhD (2018) degrees, all from the University of Kashmir, Srinagar. His research interest mainly involves the study of broadband spectral and temporal properties of blazars using multi wavelength data from various astrophysical observatories. His work includes developing numerical codes to interpret the broadband data using theoretical emission models. He is also involved in understanding particle acceleration mechanism in the jet. Besides these, he is also involved in the research on blazar classification using their long termgamma-ray flux distributions. Avinash Surendran, who has completed BTech (2010) degree in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation from the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, followed by an IntegratedMTech-PhD (2018) degrees in Astronomical Instrumentation at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru. During PhD, he primarily worked on creating a scalable generic platform for adaptive optics real-time control using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). He has also worked on the fabrication of a Lunar Scintillometer to understand the nature of ground-layer atmospheric turbulence characteristics at the Mount Saraswati, Hanle, as part of the National Large Optical Telescope project. He has joined IUCAAas a Post-Doctoral Fellow in August 2018. His fields of interest are site survey instruments, atmospheric turbulence, and adaptive optics. | KHAG L | No. 116 - OCTOBER 2018 | 06