I grew up in Ladnu, Rajasthan, and the nearby village Mangalpura in the northwest of India. I’m currently a PhD student at the Niels Bohr Institute, of the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark. Prior to coming here, I was a master’s student at the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. For my bachelor’s degree, I attended Lovely Professional University (yes, that’s a real name) in Phagwara, Punjab. As someone from a middle-class Indian family, it was life-changing for me when I got funding to pursue my master’s in Germany.
I consider myself very outgoing and I blabber a lot when I get excited. If you insist, internet tests show that I’m an ENFJ-T, in terms of MBTI. Personally, I don’t think MBTI does a fair job of classifying people’s personalities — we all lie on a near-continuum, in a very high dimensional space of independent traits (innate, and acquired). Whether that space is discrete or continuous is not clear to me.
After beginning univeristy education, I started to understand more of politics, and problems in society.
When I was 11, I became interested in figuring out how video games were designed, thanks to my obsession with some that I used to play myself. Tinkering and learning on my own, I learnt how to teach myself to code. Thanks to the online community I was in, I also picked up graphic designing as a hobby. Until I finished school I used to think that I wanted to become a computer scientist when I grew up. Things took a turn afterwards and I have never looked back after getting into physics and astronomy, where I get to write code in addition to everything else.
I like mentoring students, and I myself have been helped by many along the way.
On this website, you can learn about the academic research starting from my undergraduate, find a list of useful links and resources containing a variety of things ranging from interesting articles to a collection of opportunities and even lecture notes.
Reisen und Wandern
In the summer of 2022, when I first came to Europe, I discovered that I enjoyed seeing new places, appreciating the nature and architecture. I also realized it’s fun learning a new language, as hard as it might be.
Books
Ah, these mystical things. I’m not very good at finishing them!
.. They look fancy on my shelf though.