Dr. Rajesh Mondal
Dr. Rajesh Mondal
Assistant Professor (Grade I)
Office Address:
Room no. PH 115A, Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Calicut 673601, Kerala, India
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2018. Ph.D. (Astrophysics and Cosmology), IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India (Supervisor: Prof. Somnath Bharadwaj)
2012. M.Sc. (Physics), IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
2010. B.Sc. (Physics), Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Educational Qualifications
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2018. Ph.D. (Astrophysics and Cosmology), IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India (Supervisor: Prof. Somnath Bharadwaj)
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2012. M.Sc. (Physics), IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
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2010. B.Sc. (Physics), Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Professional Experience
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Assistant Professor (Grade I), National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India (25 Sep 2023 – present)
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IASH-CHE Postdoctoral Fellow⋆, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel (1 Jun 2022 – 31 Aug 2023) ⋆ Resigned to accept faculty position at NIT Calicut
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Wenner-Gren Postdoctoral Fellow, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (1 Jun 2020 – 31 May 2022)
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (30 Oct 2017 – 31 May 2020)
Journals
Total 42 publications. 36 publications in Peer-reviewed Journals. Total citations 1,120+. h-index 19. i10-index 23.
Selected Publications:
- R. Mondal, R. Barkana, A. Fialkov, 2023, Constraining exotic dark matter models with the dark ages 21-cm signal, Submitted to MNRAS
- R. Mondal, R. Barkana, 2023, Prospects for precision cosmology with the 21-cm signal from the dark ages, Nature Astronomy, 7, 1025. arXiv:2305.08593
- R. Mondal, G. Mellema, S. Murray, B. Greig, 2022, The multi-frequency angular power spectrum in parameter studies of the cosmic 21-cm signal, MNRAS Letters, 514(1), L31. arXiv:2203.11095
- R. Mondal, et al., 2021, The Epoch of Reionization 21-cm Bispectrum: The impact of light-cone effects and detectability, MNRAS, 508(3), 3848. arXiv:2107.02668
- R. Mondal, A. Fialkov, et al. (LOFAR EoR collaboration), 2020, Tight Constraints on the Excess Radio Background at z = 9.1 from LOFAR, MNRAS, 498(3), 4178. arXiv:2004.00678
- R. Mondal, et al., 2020, Predictions for measuring the 21-cm multi-frequency angular power spectrum using SKA-Low, MNRAS, 494(3), 4043. arXiv:1910.05196
- R. Mondal, et al., 2019, A method to determine the evolution history of the mean neutral Hydrogen fraction, MNRAS Letters, 483(1), L109. arXiv:1810.06273
- R. Mondal, S. Bharadwaj, K. K. Datta, 2018, Towards simulating and quantifying the light-cone EoR 21-cm signal, MNRAS, 474(1), 1390. arXiv:1706.09449
- R. Mondal, et al., 2017, Statistics of the epoch of reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal – II. The evolution of the power spectrum error-covariance, MNRAS, 464(3), 2992. arXiv:1606.03874
- R. Mondal, S. Bharadwaj, S. Majumdar, 2016, Statistics of the epoch of reionization 21-cm signal – I. Power spectrum error-covariance, MNRAS, 456(2), 1936. arXiv:1508.00896
- R. Mondal, et al., 2015, The effect of non-Gaussianity on error predictions for the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm power spectrum, MNRAS Letters, 449(1), L41. arXiv:1409.4420
21-cm Cosmology, Epoch of Reionization (EoR), Large-Scale Structure of the Universe, Cosmological N-body Simulations, Simulations of 21-cm signal, Statistical inference, Dark Matter, Low-Frequency Radio Interferometry, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv University), Garrelt Mellema (Stockholm University), Ilian Iliev (University of Sussex), Somnath Bharadwaj (IIT Kharagpur), Suman Majumdar (IIT Indore), Kanan K. Datta (Jadavpur University), Tirthankar R. Choudhury (NCRA-TIFR), Anastasia Fialkov (University of Cambridge), Shiv. K. Sethi (RRI), Subinoy Das (IIA)
- Membership of the International Astronomical Union (June 2022 – present)
- Fellowship: Decoding the early Universe: A novel approach, Sponsor: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities - Council for Higher Education, Role: PI, Amount: 320000 Israeli New Shekel (2022)
- Visiting Fellow, Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, UK (Jun 2020 – present)
- Fellowship: Decoding the early Universe: A novel approach, Sponsor: Wenner-Gren Foundations, Sweden, Role: Co-PI, Amount: 660000 (Tax-free) Swedish Krona (2020)
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (Mar 2018)
- Membership of the LOFAR EoR Key Science Project (2018 – present)
- Membership of the SKA Cosmology SWG (Jun 2017 – present)
- Membership of the SKA CD/EoR SWG (Dec 2016 – present)
- Membership of the SKA India EoR SWG (Sep 2015 – present)
- DviSukta: A direct estimator of the bispectrum (ascl:2109.004)
- MAPS: The Multi-frequency Angular Power Spectrum (MAPS) estimator (ascl:2108.003)
- ReionYuga: A semi-numerical reionization code (ascl:2107.005)
- FoF Halo finder code (ascl:2107.004)
- Particle-Mesh N-body code (ascl:2107.003)
Organizer and SOC
- Workshop on 21-cm Cosmology in the SKA Era, ISI, Kolkata, India (31 Oct – 4 Nov 2022)
- School on 21-cm Cosmology and Reionization, IISc, Bengaluru, India (14 – 25 Jun 2021)
- Workshop on 21-cm Cosmology and Reionization, IISc, Bengaluru, India (19 – 23 Apr 2021)
- SAZERAC sip: The 21-cm Signal from CD and EoR (online, 29 Jan 2021)
Local Organising Committee and Website designer
- Topical Conference on Gravity and Cosmology, IIT Kharagpur, India (28 Feb 2015)
- Computational Physics Lab, IIT Kharagpur, India
Organizer and Coordinator
- The SKA-India EoR and Cosmology bi-weekly seminar and discussion (online)
General Secretary Social and Cultural
- Vidyasagar Hall of Residence, IIT Kharagpur, India (session 2013 – 2014)