Samir Mandal
Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Institute of Space Science
India
Biography
Education Ph.D. Indian Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata M.Sc. Calcutta University, Kolkata Course Offered Undergraduate: Modern Physics (1st semester); Radiation Processes in Astrophysics (elective: 6th semester) Experience Post Doctoral Fellow at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Fast Track Young Scientist (DST). Visiting Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Munich, Germany. Post Doctoral Fellow (ISRO RESPOND and ASTROSAT Project) at Indian Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata. Research Fellow at Indian Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata.
Research Interest
Accretion physics; studies of radiation spectrum of galactic as well as extra-galactic black hole systems; Gamma ray bursts; Background simullation for X-ray detectors.
Publications
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S. Mandal & S. K. Chakrabarti, On the Evolution of Accretion Rates in Compact Outburst Sources, ApJ Letter, 2010, 710, L147
