Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

RAD@home ( #RADatHomeIndia https://radathomeindia.org/ ) is a nationwide, Inter-University Collaboratory of professional astronomers, trained citizen scientists and technical/administrative facilitators. It is the only Indian citizen science research platform in astronomy. Nearly 30 institutes and similar number of professionals have contributed to its growth since 2013. In a "flying pyramid" model, scientists and facilitators are its wings, and large number trained citizen-scientists (e-/i-astronomers) at multiple levels of expertise make the multi-layer pyramid. It has 150 e-astronomers, 1000 i-astronomers, 2500 active learners, 4700 total members. This way citizens achieve GMRT telescope time, co-authorship in papers on galaxy evolution and MS/PhD selections abroad or all round growth.

About Ananda Hota

Ananda Hota is an UGC-faculty at the UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (India). He obtained his PhD (Physics) from the Joint Astronomy Programme (IISc (Bengaluru)-NCRA-TIFR (Pune)) India. His primary research interest is citizen-science-driven multi-wavelength observational investigation of black hole galaxy co-evolution through AGN-feedback. He is the founding Director and Principal Investigator of RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory. He has been awarded the Samanta Chandrasekhar Jyotirbigyani Sanman. He is a member of International Astronomical Union, Square Kilometre Array science working-groups/India Consortium, Astronomical Society of India, and Consultative Group of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt of India.

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