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Santabrata Das
Professor

Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,
Room No. 006, Guwahati,
781039, Assam, India.

Phone: +91-361-258-2726,
Fax: +91-361-258-2749.
e-mail: sbdas [at] iitg.ac.in



Education

  • Ph. D. (Astrophysics, worked at S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2005
  • M. Sc. (Physics), University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, 1998
  • B. Sc. (Physics), University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, 1996

Employment

  • Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, 2021 - present
  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, 2015 - 2021
  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, 2009 - 2015
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute, South Korea, 2008 - 2009
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Sejong University, South Korea, 2006 - 2008

Research Areas

  • Astrophysical Flows
  • Cosmic Ray Astrophysics
  • Large Scale Structure of the Universe

Links


We are looking for highly motivated students who are interested to work on black hole X-ray binaries. In particular, the primary objective of this work will focus on probing the effect of strong gravity using spectro-polarimetric observations from space-based X-ray observatories.