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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
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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.
 
 

Research interests:


My research interests revolve around exploring the small-scale secondary anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) namely gravitational lensing and thermal/kinematic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effects to constrain the standard model of cosmology and test the extensions as well as deviations from it. For more information about publications and results, please look into publications page.