Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Rana Nandi

Rana Nandi

Assistant Professor

School of Natural Sciences


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Constraining the equation of state of Neutron Stars by using data coming from laboratory experiments as well as astrophysical observations including gravitational waves, Properties of Neutron Star crust, Dynamical study of low-density nuclear matter relevant for Neutron Star crust and Supernova matter using molecular dynamics simulations on GPU platforms, Study of hadron-quark phase transition inside Neutron Star core and its possible observational signatures, Synthesis of heavy elements in binary Neutron Star mergers, Understanding the physics of pulsar glitches, Various oscillation modes of Neutron Stars etc

  • 2012   Ph.D.      Saha Institute of Nulcear Physics
  • 2006   M.Sc.      Jadavpur University
  • 2004   B.Sc.       Jadavpur University

 

  • 07/22 – present  Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR
  • 02/20 – 07/22    Assistant Professor, Polba Mahavidyalaya, Hooghly, West Bengal
  • 07/17 – 01/20   Visiting Fellow (Post-doc), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
  • 01/13 – 05/17   Post-doctoral researcher, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Germany.

2013: Received the Helmholtz International center for FAIR (HIC for FAIR) Post-doctoral Fellowship for the period January 2013 - December 2015. 2006: Received the ?Professor A. P. Patro Memorial Award? for being adjudged the Best Student of the One Year Post M. Sc. Associateship (Physics) Course, 2006-07 at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. 2006: Received the ?Prof. Satyendra Nath Bose Memorial Bronze Medal? for securing the highest marks in Theoretical Papers in Physics at the Master of Science examination, 2006 at Jadavpur University.

  • Low Density Neutron Star Matter with Quantum Molecular Dynamics: The Role of Isovector Interactions, P Mehta, R Nandi, R O Gomes, V Dexheimer and I Steinheimer, Universe 8, 380 (2022).
  • Semi Universal relation to understand matter properties at neutron star interiors, R Mallick, D Kuzur and R Nandi, The European Physical Journal C 82, 512 (2022).
  • Maximum mass of hybrid star formed via shock induced phase transition in cold neutron stars, R Mallick, S Singh, R Nandi, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 503, 4829 (2021).
  • Effect of the Landau quantization of electrons on the inner crusts of hot neutron stars, R Nandi, S Mukhopadhyay and S Banik, Physical Review C 104, 025803 (2021).
  • GW190814: on the properties of the secondary component of the binary, B Biswas, R Nandi, P Char, S Bose and N Stergioulas, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 505, 1600 (2021).
  • Finding quark content of neutron stars in light of GW170817, R Nandi and S Pal, European Physical Journal Special Topics 230, 551 (2021).
  • Towards mitigation of apparent tension between nuclear physics and astrophysical observations by improved modeling of neutron star matter, B Biswas, P Char, R Nandi and S Bose, Physical Review D 103, 103015 (2021).
  • Observed Glitches in 8 young Pulsars, A Basu, B C Joshi, M A Krishnakumar, D Bhattacharya, R Nandi, D Bandhopadhay, P Char and P K Manoharan, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 491, 3182 (2020).
  • Role of crustal physics in the tidal deformation of a neutron star, B Biswas, R Nandi, P Char, and S Bose, Physical Review D 100, 044056 (2019).
  • Constraining the relativistic mean-field model equations of state with gravitational wave observations, R Nandi, P Char and S Pal, Physical Review C (Rapid) 99, 052802 (2019).
  • Glitch Behavior of Pulsars and Contribution from Neutron Star Crust, A Basu, P Char, R Nandi, B C Joshi and D Bandyopadhyay, Astrophysical Journal 866, 94 (2018).
  • Precision pulsar timing with the ORT and the GMRT and its applications in pulsar astrophysics, B C Joshi, R Nandi, et al., Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 39, 51 (2018).
  • Calculation of the transport coefficients of the nuclear pasta phase, R Nandi and S Schramm, Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 39, 40 (2018).
  • Hybrid stars in the light of GW170817, R Nandi and P Char, Astrophysical Journal 857, 12 (2018).
  • Transport properties of nuclear pasta phase with quantum molecular dynamics, R Nandi and S Schramm, Astrophysical Journal 852, 135 (2018).
  • Effect of Coulomb interaction on the liquid-gas phase transition of nuclear matter, R Nandi and S Schramm, Physical Review C 95, 065801 (2017).
  • Low density nuclear matter with quantum molecular dynamics : The role of the symmetry energy, R Nandi and S Schramm, Physical Review C 94, 025806 (2016).
  • Role of nuclear physics in oscillations of magnetars, R Nandi, P Char, D Chatterjee and D Bandyopadhyay, Physical Review C 94, 025801 (2016).
  • Nonequilibrium phase transition in compact stars through a violent shock, I Mishustin, R Mallick, R Nandi and L Satarov, Physical Review C 91, 055806 (2015).

  • “On the quark content of neutron star cores” at the “Workshop on the QCD equation of state in dense matter HIC and astrophysics” at Kovalam, Kerala, during 28 March - 1st April 2023.
  • “On the quark content of neutron star cores” at Advances in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology (AAPCOS2023), organized by SINP, Kolkata, during 23-27 January, 2023.
  • “Constraining the equation of state of neutron stars using GW170817” at Advances in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology (AAPCOS2020), organized by SINP, Kolkata, during 6-10 January, 2020.
  • “EOS of nuclear matter at high baryon densities” at DAE-BRNS symposium on Contemporary and Emerging Topics in High Energy Nuclear Physics, organized by VECC, Kolkata, during 25-27 November, 2019.
  • “Constraining the EoS of neutron stars with gravitational wave observations” at First IMSc discussion meeting on extreme QCD matter, organized by IMSc, Chennai, during 16-21 September, 2019.
  • “Can quarks exist inside neutron star core?” at Dynamics of QCD matter, organized by NISER, Bhubaneswar, during 15-17 August, 2019.
  • Participated as a panel member for discussion on “Dense matter equation of state” in the fourth meeting on the Physics and Astrophysics at the eXtreme (PAX-IV) organized by IUCAA, Pune, during 7-10 August, 2018.
  • “Simulation of the pasta phase of Neutron Star Crust” at Multi wavelength Neutron Star Workshop, organized by BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, during 7-8 January, 2018.
  • “Study of low-density nuclear matter by QMD simulations: Role of Symmetry energy” at 60 th DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, organized by DAE-BRNS at SSSIHL, India, during 07-11 December, 2015.