About
- Professor in Astrophysics
- Head of Astronomy Group
- Doctoral Programme Director for Physics & Astronomy
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Data-intensive Astronomy
- Time-domain astrophysics, Black Holes, Lunar astronomy
- Novel survey techniques on anything in the cosmos, really.
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Pagination
Biography
Prof. Poshak Gandhi researches extreme time-domain astrophysics, with an emphasis on multiwavelength observations of black holes. His studies have established the connection between accretion and extreme obscuration in supermassive black holes at the centres of massive galaxies, as well as the causal links between accretion and outflows in relativistic astrophysical jets.
Prof. Gandhi hails from New Delhi, and has worked in Chile (ESO) and Japan (RIKEN/JAXA). He completed his doctorate in X-ray astronomy from the Institute of Astronomy (Univ. of Cambridge), but has recently focused on connecting the high-energy regime with infrared and optical observations. Several of his projects are focused on big data time-domain mining and analysis, including with JWST, LSST, NuSTAR, AstroSat, Gaia and eROSITA; he is the PI, affiliate PI, for major observational projects exploiting each of these, and offers PhD projects in all. More details about his research are on his personal homepage and he may be reached through twitter.
Prizes
- Nature Astronomy Cover (2017)
- NASA Group Achievement Award (2016)
- STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship (2014)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2020)
- Nature Astronomy Cover (2017)
- NASA Group Achievement Award (2016)
- STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship (2014)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2020)