Professor Sugata Kaviraj
Senior Research Fellow
Professor of Astrophysics
Education
MSci (Imperial College), DPhil (Oxford)
Sugata Kaviraj obtained his PhD at the University of Oxford in 2006. His career was subsequently funded by a Leverhulme Early-Career Fellowship, a Junior Research Fellowship at Worcester College, a Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and an Imperial College Research Fellowship. He was a recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society’s Winton Capital Award (awarded to the best early-career astronomer). He combines his role at Worcester with a Professorship at the University of Hertfordshire.
Kaviraj’s teaching experience includes lecture courses in mathematics, cosmology, stellar evolution, high-energy astrophysics and computational techniques, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Kaviraj’s research brings together data from large astronomical surveys with high-resolution galaxy formation simulations and machine-learning techniques. His current work is centred on the UK’s contribution to the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Kaviraj’s projects are focused both on the construction of data-processing pipelines for this survey and its science exploitation, funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).