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Srinivasan Raghunathan

Survey Science Fellow


Centre for AstroPhysical Surveys
National Centre for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Email: srinirag[at]illinois.edu
Github: Link



 
 
 

Research interests:


My research interests revolve around exploring the small-scale secondary anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) namely kinematic/thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effects and gravitational lensing to understand the epoch of reionisation, constrain the standard model of cosmology and test the extensions as well as deviations from it.

My PhD thesis was on the analysis of data from the Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) experiment which focussed on the search for the primordial gravitational waves from cosmic inflation.

During my Masters, I worked on producing a catalogue of high redshift faint galaxies using their MgII absorption signatures in the spectra of distant quasar. You can find different versions of MgII catalouges in this link.

For more information about publications and results, please look into publications page.
 
 

Employment:


  • Survey Science Fellow, Centre for AstroPhysical Surveys, National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Current).
  • Postdoctoral scholar, University of California, Los Angeles and Michigan State University, USA (2018 - 2021).
  • Postdoctoral scholar, University of Melbourne, Australia (2015 - 2018).
 
 

Education:


  • PhD: Universidad de Chile: Conferred in March, 2016.
  • Dissertation topic: Search for inflationary gravitational waves using data from Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) experiment.
  • Awarded graduate student of 2013 prize, Department of Astronomy.
  • Awarded CONICYT PhD fellowship by the Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research.