Dr. Pavan Kumar Aluri
Assistant Professor
Department/School/Unit Name
Department of Physics,Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)
Phone No(s): 7776920870
Email: pavanaluri.phy@iitbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Cosmology / Cosmic Microwave background - Statistical Isotropy, Component separation, Power spectrum estimation
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at IIT(BHU), Varanasi.
My chief area of work is in Cosmology, specifically cosmic microwave background (CMB) studies.
Educational Qualifications :
- Ph.D. : Dept. of Physics, IIT Kanpur [2013(Awarded)]
- M.Sc. : School of Physics, University of Hyderabad [2004]
- B.Sc. : C.S.R.Sarma College, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh [2002]
Post-doctoral Experience :
- KIAS - KASI Joint Post-doctoral fellow, KIAS, Seoul (KIAS:Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea; KASI:Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea) [July 2017- March 2018]
- Claude Leon Foundation Post-doctoral fellow, University of Cape Town, South Africa [September 2016 - June 2017]
- Post-doctoral fellow, IUCAA, Pune, India [June 2013 - August 2016]
- Post-doctoral fellow, IISER Bhopal, India [March 2012 - April 2013]
Employment :
- Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT(BHU), Varanasi [June 2018 - Till present]
I am a cosmologist, specifically working on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation.
My current interests include :
- Tests of Statistical Isotropy
- CMB/Foreground component separation, and Power spectrum estimation methods
Courses taught :
- PHY505 : Advanced Quantum and Statistical Physics (*QM)
- PHY504 : Advanced Mathematical and Computational Methods
- PHY413 : General Theory of Relativity and Cosmology
- PHY502 : Advanced Classical Mechanics and Electrodynamics (*CM)
- PYM412/PHY307 : Advanced Mathematical Methods
- PYM403 : Quantum Mechanics - I
- PYM402 : Mathematical Methods
- PHY202/PHY304/PYM411 : Computational Physics
- PHY201 : Quantum Physics
- PHY101 : Classical, Quantum and Relativistic Mechanics
Ph.D. :
- Sanjeet Kumar Patel [2018-19s1 - Till present]
- Sanjeev Sanyal [2019-20s2 - Till present]
- Anshul Verma [2019-20s2 - Till present]
- External/Formal/Informal Supervision
- Srikanta Panda, Dept. of Physics, Utkal University
M.Sc. :
- Masters thesis (2 semesters)
- Nakshatra Jain [2024-25s1 - Till present]
- Rambahadur Gupta [2022-23s1 - 2022-23s2]
- Mayank [2021-22s1 - 2021-22s2]
- Kritika Bansal [2021-22s1 - 2021-22s2]
- Adarsh Gangwar [2020-21s1 - 2020-21s2]
IDD :
- Masters thesis (3 semesters)
- Krishn Kumar Bhojwal [2023-24s2 - Till Present]
- Vijay Kumar [2022-23s2 - 2023-24s2]
- Yash Maheswari [2020-21s2 - 2021-22s2]
- Utkarsh Agarwal [2019-20s2 - 2021-22s2]
- Stream Project (3 semesters)
- Ishaan Dhyani [2020-21s1 - 2021-22s1]
- Utkarsh Agarwal [2018-19s1 - 2019-20s1]
- UG Project (2 semesters)
- Akash Sarkar [2023-24s2 - 2024-25s1]
- Aditya Surana [2022-23s2 - 2023-24s1]
- Pulkit Singhal [2020-21s2 - 2021-22s1]
- Yash Maheswari [2019-20s2 - 2020-21s1]
- Vaibhav Verma [2018-19s2 - 2019-20s1]
- Exploratory Project (1 semester)
- Nischala Pendyala [2022-23s2]
- Harshwardhan Joshi [2020-21s2]
- Pulkit Singhal [2019-20s2]
- Ishaan Dhyani [2019-20s2]
Internships :
- Saatvik Narain (M.Sc. Physics/NIT Rourkela) [Summer Internship, 2023]
- Aditi Sahu (BS-MS/IISER Berhampur) [Summer Internship, 2024]
Reviewed for :
- Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A), Physics of the Dark Universe, Nature's Scientific Reports, Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Departmental engagements :
- Convenor, Departmental Seminar committee (2023-24)
- Convenor, PHY101 : Classical, Quantum and Relativistic Mechanics (2022-23)
- Member, Departmental Library committee
- Member, Departmental Space committee