Siddharth Malu

Siddharth Malu Associate Professor Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Indore Khandwa Road, Simrol Indore 453552 Madhya Pradesh India Email: siddharth [at] iiti

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Research interests

• Galaxy clusters - radio observations
  
• Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
  
• Radio Astronomy instrumentation
  

I am interested in studying diffuse emission that is related to mergers between galaxy clusters. I am also interested in detecting pressure structures in galaxy cluster mergers through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect.

Education

• PhD Physics, 2007, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.Physics, 2000, University of Oxford
• B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics, 1998, University of Delhi

Research experience

•   March 2015 - present: Associate Prof., Centre of Astronomy, IIT Indore
•   March 2012 - March 2015: Assistant Prof., Physics Department, IIT Indore

Awards and achievements

Publications

• Relativistic inverse compton scattering of photons from the early universe
  Siddharth Malu, Abhirup Datta, Sergio Colafrancesco, Paolo Marchegiani, Ravi Subrahmanyan, D Narasimha and Mark Wieringa, Scientific Reports 7, No. 16918 (2017)

Teaching

• AA 651 - Astronomy Laboratory I - 2019-20