Dr. Shravan Hanasoge, Associate Professor at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, has been chosen as the recipient of the Prof. Peraiah Foundation Award for 2021 as a recognition of his contributions to the understanding of convection and rotation in the Sun and stars.
This award, instituted by the Prof. Peraiah Foundation and administered by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA, Bengaluru), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, is meant to recognise outstanding work in the field of Theoretical Astrophysics and is awarded every two years. The nominees have to be scientists working in India who are below 60 years of age. The award consists of a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, a citation, and an invitation to deliver a special lecture at IIA.
Dr. Hanasoge completed his B.Tech from IIT Madras in 2002, following which he did his Masters and Ph.D. from Stanford University in USA. Following a joint postdoctoral fellowship between Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany and Princeton University USA, he joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, in 2013 as a faculty member. Shravan Hanasoge and his group work on imaging the internal structure of the Sun, stars, and Earth using computational, theoretical, and data-analysis techniques. His primary focus areas are the development and refinement of methods of seismology, and the application of machine learning, to enable the discovery of solar and stellar physics. Using novel techniques of seismology, Hanasoge inferred that motions associated with convection in the Sun are more than ten times smaller than expected --- an influential result that has come to be termed the “convective conundrum”. Hanasoge was also part of an important study, the first of its kind, to measure the details of rotational shear in distant stars that are similar to our Sun, a result that aids our understanding of the relationship between convection and rotation in the Sun and stars. Dr. Hanasoge has won Cray's APJ Abdul Kalam High-Performance Computing award and the Max-Planck Partner Group award, among others. “It is an honour to be awarded the Peraiah Foundation (a non-profit organization dedicated to promote and encourage research in Theoretical Astrophysics in particular within India) prize. This award motivates me and my group to continue our work on these exciting areas in helio- and asteroseismology (study of Sun & stars from their tremors)”, said Dr. Hanasoge.
For further details, please contact Dr. Shravan Hanasoge hanasoge[at]tifr[dot]res[dot]in; 99877 32925 Director, IIA – Prof Annapurni Subramaniam diriia[at]iiap[dot]res[dot]in Dean, IIA – Prof Eswar Reddy dean[at]iiap[dot]res[dot]in.
