Chayan Mondal

Assistant Professor

Department of Astrophysics and High Energy Physics    

S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences,   Block JD, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700106




cmondal@bose.res.in
www.bose.res.in
Telephone +91-33-2335 5706/07/08 (extn: 237)

 

Educational Background:

  • PhD in Astrophysics from Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore (2020)

  • M.Sc. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (2014)

  • B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur (Calcutta University) (2012)

Professional Background:

  • Assistant Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (September 2025 - present)

  • Distinguished Post Doctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), Taiwan (June 2024 – August 2025)

  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune (May 2021 – July 2024)

  • Post Doctoral Researcher, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore (September 2019 – February 2021)

Awards:

  • ASIAA Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024)

  • First prize for the joint ARIES-IIA Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR) Programme, JAI-AWSAR (2020)

  • Best poster award in the Astronomical Society of India meeting, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India (2018)

Main area of Research:

  • Galaxy Evolution from local to distant universe

  • Observational Extragalactic Astrophysics

Research Interests:

  • Interstellar Dust in galaxies

  • LyC leaking sources - Cosmic Reionization

  • Deep field - Multi-wavelength observation

  • Star formation in nearby galaxies

  • Stellar structure & kinematics in galaxies


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Significant Recent Publications: 

    [Publication list]

  • Chayan Mondal, Kanak Saha, Anshuman Borgohain, Brent M. Smith, Rogier A. Windhorst, Naveen Reddy, Chian-Chou Chen, Keiichi Umetsu, and Rolf A. Jansen, “GNHeII J1236+6215: A He II λ1640 emitting and potentially LyC leaking galaxy at z = 2.9803 unveiled through JWST & Keck observations”,  2025, ApJ, Volume 988, Issue 2, id.171, 19 pp

  • Chayan Mondal & Sudhanshu Barway, "Discovery of a kinematically distinct component in the central region of the collisional ring galaxy AM0644-741", 2025, A&A Letters, Volume 698, id.L25, 9 pp

  • Ting-Kai Yang, Chian-Chou Chen, Zhen-Kai Gao, Bovornpratch Vijarnwannaluk, Adarsh Ranjan, Wei-Hao Wang, Caitlin M. Casey, Tomotsugu Goto, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Chayan Mondal, James Pearson, Chris Sedgwick, Stephen Serjean, "Unveiling a Population of Strong Galaxy-Galaxy Lensed, Faint Dusty Star-forming Galaxies", 2025,  ApJ Letters, Volume 990, Issue 2, id.L38, 13 pp.

  • Shashank Gairola, Smitha Subramanian, Sreedevi M., Shyam H Menon, Chayan Mondal, Sriram Krishna, Mousumi Das, Annapurni Subramaniam, "Tracing Hierarchical Star Formation out to Kiloparsec Scales in Nearby Spiral Galaxies with UVIT", 2025, A&A, Volume 693, id.A188, 18 p

  • Chayan Mondal & Kanak Saha, "The AstroSat UV Deep Field North: The IRX–β Relation for the UV-selected Galaxies at z ~ 0.5- 0.7", 2024, ApJ, Volume 970, Issue 1, id.80, 11 pp

  • Chayan Mondal, Kanak Saha, Rogier. A. Windhorst, Rolf. A. Jansen, "Observed UV continuum slopes (β) of galaxies at z = 0.40 - 0.75 in the GOODS-north field", 2023, ApJ, Volume 946, Issue 2, id.90, 10 pp.

  • Chayan Mondal, Kanak Saha, Souradeep Bhattacharya, Anshuman Borgohain, Shyam N. Tandon, Marc Rafelski, Rolf A. Jansen, Rogier A. Windhorst, Harry I.
    Teplitz, Brent M. Smith, "The AstroSat UV Deep Field North: the far and near ultraviolet photometric catalog", 2023, ApJS, Volume 264, Issue 2, id.40, 15 pp

  • Chayan Mondal, Annapurni Subramaniam, Koshy George, Joseph E. Postma, Smitha Subramanian, Sudhanshu Barway, "Tracing young star-forming clumps in the nearby flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 7793 with UVIT imaging", 2021, ApJ, Volume 909, Issue 2, id.203, 13 pp.

  • Chayan Mondal, Annapurni Subramaniam, Koshy George, "Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope View of Dwarf Irregular Galaxy IC 2574: Is the Star Formation Triggered Due to Expanding H I Shells?", 2019, AJ, Volume 158, Number 6, 15pp

  • Chayan Mondal, Annapurni Subramaniam, Koshy George, "UVIT imaging of WLM: Demographics of star forming regions in the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy", 2018, AJ, Volume 156, Issue 3, article id. 109, 16 pp.

  • Shyam N. Tandon, Annapurni Subramaniam, including Chayan Mondal et al., "In-orbit Calibrations of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope", 2017, AJ, Volume 154, Issue 3, article id. 128, 14 pp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

     

     
 
 
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