Moumita Aich

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Room 413, H1 Block, Westville Campus
(031) 260 8149
aich@ukzn.ac.za

Academic History

  • 2017 – Research Scientist at UKZN
  • 2015-2017 – Claude Leon postdoctoral fellow at UKZN
  • 2012-2015 – Postdoctoral research fellow at UKZN
  • 2006-2012 – PhD at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India
  • 2004-2006 – MSc Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
  • 2001-2004 – BSc (Honours) Physics at Presidency College, Kolkata, India

Research Interests

  • Statistical isotropy violation in CMB anisotropies and weak lensing of CMB
  • Inflationary models, linear perturbation theory, cosmological parameter estimation
  • Calibration of high resolution CMB polarization experiments
  • Member of the C-Band All Sky Survey (C-BASS) collaboration