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The IAU OAE National Astronomy Education Coordinator team for India

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Surhud More
Dr Surhud More
Team Chair, NAEC team - India
IUCAA


Surhud is an astrophysicist at IUCAA with research interests in cosmology, galaxy formation, large scale structure and the outskirts of the solar system. He obtained his PhD from the University of Heidelberg, and was a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. With postdoctoral stints at the University of Chicago in the US and University of Tokyo in Japan, he was a tenured faculty at the Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Japan prior to joining IUCAA. At IUCAA, he also acts as the faculty in-charge for the public outreach activities and the OAE India Center.


Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027

Harvinder Kaur Jassal
Harvinder Kaur Jassal
Team Member, NAEC team - India
Indian Institute for Science Education and Research Mohali



Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027

Niruj Mohan Ramanujam
Niruj Mohan Ramanujam
Team Member, NAEC team - India
Indian Institute of Astrophysics


Niruj Mohan Ramanujam is employed at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru, India since 2021, where he is the Head of the Science Communication, Public Outreach, and education (SCOPE) Section. Earlier, he had worked at the South African Radio Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town and at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) in Pune, India. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden University in The Netherlands and the IAP in France, following his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

He is the former chairperson of the outreach committees of the Astronomical Society of India and the African Astronomical Society and is a member of many other astronomy outreach committees. He is one of the IAU OAO NOCs for India.


Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027

Aniket Sule
Dr Aniket Sule
Team Member, NAEC team - India
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE-TIFR)


Researcher in Astronomy Education, Mathematics Education, and History of Astronomy in India, General Secretary of International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), Chair of India-NAEC team


Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027

Virendra Yadav
Dr Virendra Yadav
Team Member, NAEC team - India
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES)


Virendra is a scientist at Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Science (ARIES), Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. He takes care of the science polarization and public outreach activities at ARIES. He is also the co-chair of the Public Outreach and Education Committee of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI-POEC) for 2022-25.
Virendra carried out his PhD research at the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG) in space physics. He had post-doctoral stints at IIG and IIT Roorkee before joining ARIES. He is keenly interested in astronomy outreach, science popularisation and cultivation of scientific temper among students and society at large.


Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027

This NAEC team is supported by associate NAECs. For more inform on these associate NAECs you can contact the NAEC team on naecs.india​atgmail.com.

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To get in touch with the NAEC team for India please contact:
The India NAEC team via naecs.india​atgmail.com.

Astronomy Education in India

For more information on Astronomy Education in India, see the Astronomy Education in India document (PDF file 209.11 kB Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) icons) prepared by our NAEC team