Educational Background:
Ph.D. in Astronomy, Physical Research Laboratory (Gujarat University),2004
M. Sc. in Physics with Electronics specialization from Jadavpur University (Kolkata)
Professional Background:
August 2011 to till date - Assistant Professor,SNBNCBS, Kolkata
August 2007 to July 2011 - Scientist - C, ARIES, Nainital, India
March 2005 to July 2007 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Astronomy,
NCU, Taiwan
March 2004 to Feb 2005 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory,
India
Research Interests:
Extra-solar planets
Small solar system objects
Brown dwarfs in star-forming regions
High Angular resolution astronomy on M-Giants and Mira variables
Astronomical Instrumentation
Significant Recent Publications:
Yogesh C. Joshi, Santosh Joshi, Brijesh Kumar, Soumen Mondal ,L. A. Balona -
Photometric Study and Detection of Variable Stars in the Open Clusters - I : NGC 6866,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, 419, 2379
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Sneh Lata, A. K. Pandey, Maheswar G., Soumen Mondal and Brijesh Kumar -
Photometric search for variable stars in young open cluster Berkeley 59,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011, 418, 1346
Soumen Mondal ,C.C. Lin, W. P. Chen, Z.-W. Zhang, C. Alcock, T. Axelrod, et al. -
The TAOS Project stellar variability II - Detection of 15 Variable Stars,
The Astronomical Journal, 2010, 139, 2026
Soumen Mondal , Ramakant S. Yadav, Mahendra Singh - Preliminary Design of ARIES-Devasthal Faint Object
Spectrograph and Camera,2009, Proc. of International conference on Trends in Optics
and Photonics 2009, edited by A. Ghosh & D. Choudhury, held at Kolkata,
India during 1-4 March 2009, p374-379
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Z.-W. Zhang, F. B. Bianco, Soumen Mondal et al.,First Results from the Taiwanese-American
Occultation Survey (TAOS),The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2008, 685, L157-160
Soumen Mondal, and T. Chandrasekhar - Angular diameter measurements of evolved variables
by lunar occultations simultaneously at 2.2 and 3.8 micron,The Astronomical Journal, 2005, 130, 842
Soumen Mondal, and T. Chandrasekhar,-
Evidence of asymmetric structure in the atmosphere of Mira variable U Orionis from
lunar occultation in near-infrared, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
2004, 348, 1332 |
