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Anamparambu N. Ramaprakash (Ram) obtained his Bachelors in Electronics from the University of Kerala (India) and his MSc and PhD in Physics from the University of Pune (India) in 1996 and 1998 respectively. |
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During the last part of his thesis (1997-1998) he was a visiting fellow at the California Institute of Technology (USA). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Astronomy of Cambridge University (UK) for the period 1998-2000 before joining the staff of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) at Pune (India). Since 2010 he is a Professor (Scientist G) at IUCAA, where he heads the instrumentation laboratory. He holds several adjunct faculty appointments in Indias as well as a Visiting Associate Faculty at Caltech (since 2015). He joined IA-FORTH as a Research Fellow in 2019. Prof. Ramaprakash has co-/supervised over 20 PhD students and postdocs. |
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Prof. Ramaprakash is an expert in astronomical instrumentation. He was Co-PI for Robopol and Robo-AO and currently Co-PI for the Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP). He is PI of the Devasthal Optical Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph (DOTIFS) at IUCAA, as well as Associate Program Director for India's involvement in the Thirty Metre Telescope project. He is interested in developing instruments for ground and space based astronomy including adaptive optics, optical fibres, sensors and electronics etc., Developing novel astronomical techniques and technology, physics of the inter-stellar medium, and transients. |
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Paul Kalas studied astronomy and physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned a Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1996 from the University of Hawaii under the direction of astronomer David Jewitt. |
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He worked as a postdoctoral scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, he became an Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined IA-FORTH as research fellow in 2019. |
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Direct imaging of exoplanets and dusty debris disks, the search for exoplanetary rings and moons, stellar and planetary dynamics, ethics in professional astronomy, and the nature of space and time. |
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