The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has recognised exemplary research contributions of heliophysicist Devojyoti Kansabanik.
The honour comes from IAU’s Sun and Heliosphere group for the work titled ‘Deciphering Radio Emission from Solar Coronal Mass Ejections Using High-fidelity Spectropolarimetric Radio Imaging’.
AdvertisementLast month, the IAU had announced eight PhD prizes and honorary mentions, each.
The IUA will meet for its XXXII General Assembly scheduled to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, in August this year.
Founded in 1919, IAU is the world’s largest and the highest body dedicated to astronomy.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has recognised exemplary research contributions of heliophysicist Devojyoti Kansabanik.
He had recently completed a PhD from Pune-based National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA). Since December last year, Kansabanik has been a NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral fellow at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, USA.
The honour comes from IAU’s Sun and Heliosphere group for the work titled ‘Deciphering Radio Emission from Solar Coronal Mass Ejections Using High-fidelity Spectropolarimetric Radio Imaging’. He shares this honorary mention from the group with China’s Xingyu Zhu.
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Last month, the IAU had announced eight PhD prizes and honorary mentions, each. The IUA will meet for its XXXII General Assembly scheduled to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, in August this year.
Founded in 1919, IAU is the world’s largest and the highest body dedicated to astronomy. Through IAU, over 12,000 professional astronomers and astrophysicists from over 100 countries meet and discuss education and development, research and communication for this fields of sciences.It is the authority to assign designations to celestial bodies.
