Bhuvana GR

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Astrophysicist & Researcher.


Hi, I am a ISRO-SPO fellow at Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, India. I am working on studying accretion properties of Galactic and extragalactic black hole X-ray binaries using observations from various X-ray missions such as AstroSat, NICER, NuSTAR, XMM-Newton and Swift-XRT.


  • Birthday: 8 Aug 1995
  • City: Bengaluru, India
  • Age: 28
  • Designation: PhD research scholar, Astrophysics
  • Email: bhuvanahebbar@gmail.com [or] bhuvanagr.res-physics@dsu.edu.in

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Sumary

Bhuvana GR

Research Interests: X-ray astronomy, stellar mass Galactic and extragalactic black hole X-ray binaries, persistent and transient X-ray binaries, Ultraluminous X-ray sources

Education

PhD Astrophysics

2021 - 2023 (expected)

Department of Physics, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Supervisor: Dr. Baishali Garai | Co-supervisor: Dr. Anuj Nandi

Thesis: Telltale of accretion disc dynamics around Galactic and extragalactic black hole binaries

MSc Physics

2016 - 2018

CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

CGPA: 9.4/10 (Overall)

BSc Physics

2013 - 2016

Poornaprajna College, Mangalore University, Udupi, Karnatka, India

CGPA: 8.43/10 (Overall)

Experience

Junior Research Fellow

2019 - 2021

Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, India

Project Title: Telltale of Galactic Black hole X-ray Binaries from AstroSat archival observations

Project Fellow

2018 - 2019

CHIST (Deemed to be University, Bengaluru, India)

Project Title: Spectro-timing studies of X-ray binaries using AstroSat

Fellowship Awarded

Senior Research Fellow

2021 - 2023

Junior Research Fellow

2019 - 2021

Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, India

Project Title: Telltale of Galactic Black hole X-ray Binaries from AstroSat archival observations funded by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) - SPO under DOS Sanction order No. DS-2B- 13013(2)/13/2019-Sec.2