"In every exploration of the cosmos, there is always an opportunity to reconnect with the timeless beauty and mystery of the universe."
- Unknown

Invited talks

  1. July 2025: Lecturer at the MESA Summer School, Leuven, BE.
  2. July 2025: Review talk at the “Binary Stars in the Space Era” conference, Keele, UK.
  3. May 2023: University of New South Wales Astronomy Seminar, Virtual.
  4. Jan 2023: Silk Road Project's International Teeminar, Virtual.
  5. May 2022: Tata Institute for Fundamental Research Astronomy Seminar, Virtual.
  6. May 2022: Northwestern University, CIERA Astro Lunch Seminar, Chicago, US.
  7. April 2021: Instituto Superior Técnico' CENTRA seminar, Virtual.
  8. July 2020: University of Melbourne Astronomy Colloquium, Virtual. PDF of the talk
  9. June 2016: Savitribai Phule Pune University 'Prof. S.S. Joshi' Award Talk, Pune, India.

Contributed talks

  1. Sep 2025: IAU Challenges and Innovations in Computational Astrophysics VI, Virtual.
  2. Aug 2024: MODEST-24: Exploring Dense Stellar Systems Across Cosmic Time, Warsaw, Poland.
  3. May 2024: Globular Clusters and Their Tidal Tails, Virtual.
  4. Aug 2023: MODEST-23: Star Clusters in the Post-Pandemic Era, Chicago, US.
  5. Nov 2022: Conference on the Impact of Binaries on Stellar Evolution, Munich, Germany.
  6. April 2022: McWilliams Center for Cosmology Astro Seminar, Pittsburgh, US.
  7. July 2021: Annual Scientific Meeting of Astronomical Society of Australia, Melbourne, Australia.
  8. April 2021: European Southern Observatory: Hypatia Colloquium, Virtual. Youtube Link for the talk
  9. July 2020: MOBSTER-1 virtual conference: Stellar variability as a probe of magnetic fields in massive stars, Virtual. Link to the talk
  10. Feb 2020: MODEST-20: Dense Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys, Mumbai, India.
  11. July 2018: Annual Scientific Meeting of Astronomical Society of Australia, Melbourne, Australia. PDF of the talk
  12. Dec 2015: Sakura Science Project Talk, Osaka, JP.
  13. Nov 2013: National Seminar for Popularization of Astronomy, Lucknow, India.

Posters

  1. Nov 2019: Impact of stellar evolution on the formation of gravitational wave progenitors - Annual OzGrav Retreat, Australia.
  2. July 2019: Method for rapid stellar evolution with METISSE - Annual Scientific Meeting, Astronomical Society of Australia, Brisbane, Australia.
  3. Spe 2018: Modeling single star evolution in globular clusters - Annual GMT Community Science Meeting, US.
  4. Nov 2017: Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves: modelling stellar populations (Group poster, Prize winning) - Annual OzGrav Retreat, Australia.
  5. Dec 2013: Radio Astronomy: the study of the invisible universe - National Seminar for Popularization of Astronomy, India.

Teaching & Supervision

  1. 2025–Present: Thesis Supervisor, KU Leuven, Belgium.
    – Duncan Marey, Master’s thesis
  2. 2025: Project Supervisor, KU Leuven, Belgium.
    – Kian Tedeskino, Master’s project (8 weeks)
    – Maria Korolik, Master’s project (8 weeks)
    – Cécile de Wasseige, Master’s project (6 weeks)
  3. Sep 2023: Guest Lecturer (Undergraduate Students), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US.
    – Taught numerical errors and root finding through the bisection method as part of the Numerical Techniques for the Sciences I (PHYS 331) course.
  4. 2023–2024: Co-supervisor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US.
    – Duncan Maclean, Graduate student
  5. 2022–2024: External Supervisor, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland.
    – Rafia Sarwar, Graduate student
  6. Sep 2020: Lecturer (High School Students), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
    – Designed and taught “A Day in the Lives of Stars,” a two-day course introducing research fundamentals and stellar evolution using the web version of the MESA stellar evolution code.
  7. 2018–2019: Co-supervisor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
    – Ivana Drpic, Undergraduate student

Workshops and Summer Schools

  1. June 2024: AstroAI Workshop, Cambridge, US.
  2. July 2023: Summer workshop at Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, US.
  3. June 2023: TIBBS Summer Teaching Series - Chapel Hill, US.
  4. June 2022: International High Performance Computing Summer School - Athens, Greece.
  5. Aug 2018: MESA Summer School - Santa Barbara, US.
  6. 2021, 2022: Lorentz Center Workshop: Bringing Stellar Evolution and Feedback Together Virtual.
  7. 2017-2019: OzGrav Early Career Researcher Workshop and Annual Retreat - Australia.
  8. Dec 2019: Stars in Melbourne - Melbourne, Australia.
  9. June 2018: Harley Wood Winter School - Ballarat, Australia.
  10. Nov 2017: Stars in Sydney - Sydney, Australia.
  11. Dec 2015: Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science - Osaka, Japan.
  12. July 2015: Advanced workshop on Time Domain Astronomy and Cosmology - Kottayam, India.
  13. July 2013: Pulsar Observatory for Students - Ooty, India.
  14. Dec 2012: Radio Astronomy Winter School - Pune, India.