S.m. Chitre

Biography

UGC National Lecturer in Physics during 1975-76, visiting positions at Universities of Cambridge, Princeton, Sussex, Amsterdam, Columbia and Virginia, and a MaxPlanck Fellow at the MaxPlanck Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik, Munich. Senior Research Associateships of the National Academy of Sciences, USA at Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA. Perren Visiting Fellow and a Visiting Professor of Astronomy at Queen Mary and Westfield College of the University of London, during 1992-1993, 1994-1995 and 1997 and a Visiting Professor at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad during 1999-2000. The Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Queen Mary College, University of London, 2001 & 2002 and a Visiting Astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge during the Easter terms of 2003-2005 & 2007. Raja Ramanna Fellow at the University of Mumbai during the period 2001-2006. Also served as President of the Astronomical Society of India, Chairman of the Indian National Committee for Astronomy, Chairman of the Bombay Association for Science Education, a member of the Management Boards of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics and the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, a Council Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore, the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India.

Research Interest

Solar Physics, Physics and Astrophysics of Collapsed Objects and Gravitational Lensing