CV

PhD

Freie Universität Berlin

Physics

BS+MS dual degree

IISER Mohali

Physics

Inspire Potentials Fellow

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

• This was my Master's thesis project. I worked on speeding up an in-house code to simulate electrostatic forces in condensed phase systems.

Future Research Talent Fellow

Australian National University

• As an intern at ANU, Canberra, I worked on the calculation of turbulence in star forming clouds under optically thick conditions. The work has been accepted by MNRAS for publication.

DAAD-WISE Scholar

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

• As an intern in MPS Goettingen I worked on understanding the effect that different commonly used parameters have on the formation of planets which exist within 1 au of their parent stars. This is now published.

Intern

IISER Mohali

• I learned and understood the Metropolis Monte Carlo method (MMC) using C++. I wrote a code to use the MMC method and numerically analyze the results obtained in D.Berenstein et.al.'s paper called 'Multimatrix models and emergent geometry'.

MSCA Doctoral Fellowship Awardee

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions

My Doctoral degree is funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network 'Track the Twin'

MARVEL Inspire Potentials

NCCR MARVEL

I am a recipient of the NCCR-MARVEL Inspire Potentials Scholarship. It helped me fund my Master's thesis project with Prof. Sara Bonella at EPFL, Switzerland.

ANU-FRT Scholar

The Australian National Univeristy

I was a recipient of the FRT Scholarship in the year 2024. I used the scholarship to fund my internship with Prof. Christoph Feddarath in ANU, Australia

DAAD-WISE Scholar

The DAAD, Germany

I was a recipient of the DAAD Scholarship in the year 2023. I used the scholarship to fund my internship with Dr Joanna Drążkowska in Göttingen, Germany

Zonal Topper Award

Mimamsa, IISER Pune

I was a part of the Zonal Topper winning team for the states of Punjab and Haryana.

QUANT22 Master's School

MPI-PKS

I was selected to attend a 4-day virtual master's school organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems between October 4th 2022, and October 6th 2022.

Turbulence Inference from Synthetic Observations

ArXiv

This study looks at how well we can measure turbulence in star-forming clouds using CO emission lines. Earlier methods assumed the gas was transparent, but in reality, opacity and radiative transfer affect the signal. By simulating CO emission with more realistic physics, we find that turbulence measurements from CO lines are typically 10–15% too high, and in some cases up to 40% too high. We provide correction factors to make future measurements more accurate.

Mass-Zero constrained molecular dynamics for electrostatic interactions

ArXiv

Efficient evaluation of electrostatic forces remains a challenge in large-scale molecular dynamics. State-of-the-art particle-mesh Ewald methods scale semi-logarithmically but rely on reciprocal-space FFTs, which limit parallel performance. We present a novel real-space approach that solves the Poisson equation on a grid via an extended Lagrangian, treating field values as auxiliary zero-inertia variables with the equation enforced as a dynamical constraint. After validating the method on a toy model, we apply it to molten NaCl, reproducing structural and transport properties and demonstrating favorable performance and scalability.

Can Close-In Exoplanets Form by Pebble Accretion?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Pebble accretion is the leading model for forming exoplanets larger than Earth. We investigate how pebble fragmentation velocity, turbulence strength, stellar metallicity, stellar mass, and orbital location affect planet growth within 1 au. Using close-in planets from NASA’s exoplanet archive, we find that turbulence plays a greater role than fragmentation velocity. While higher stellar metallicity increases the likelihood of planets reaching pebble isolation mass, stellar mass, orbital separation, and especially disc turbulence have stronger effects.