Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data:
Name: Position: Address: Nisha Katyal PhD. Research Scholar School of Physical Sciences (SPS) Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi 110067, INDIA 01 May 1986, New Delhi, INDIA

Date and Place of birth:

Educational Qualifications:
1. Degree: Year : Summer Project Title: Project undertaken at : Duration: Advisor: 2. Degree: Year : MSc. Physics from University of Delhi 2008 Study of Radio Antennas Radio Astronomy Center, NCRA-TIFR, Ooty, Tamil Nadu, INDIA June-July 2007 Prof. P K Manoharan BSc. Physics (H) from Hansraj College University of Delhi 2006

Positions held:
Project Research fellow at Inter University center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune Project Title: "Interpretation of the Observed Extinction in the Optical - UV Region from TAUVEX
and ASTROSAT - UVIT Satellite Data Base"

Project Duration: 3 years (2008-2011) Funding agency: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

List of Publications:
1. Interstellar grains: Effect of inclusions on Extinction, Nisha Katyal, Ranjan Gupta and D B Vaidya , Vol 63, 1041, Earth, Planets and Space (2011). 2. Interstellar dust models towards some IUE stars, Nisha Katyal, Ranjan Gupta and D B Vaidya, Vol. 125, 1443, PASP (2013). 3. Fractal properties of cosmic silicate cores, Nisha Katyal, Varsha Banerjee and Sanjay Puri, To appear in JQSRT (2013).

Poster presentations and talks delivered:

Invited speaker: Talk titled IUE Dust Models delivered at Workshop on Light scattering and its applications at S.N. Bose Institute, Kolkata (Nov 19-21, 2013). Presented poster on Light scattering by fractal dust aggregates at an international conference titled Electromagnetic and Light Scattering conference XIV held at University of Lille, Lille, France (June 19-22, 2013). Presented poster on Light scattering properties of various fractal dust aggregates at an international conference titled Cosmic Dust V held at CPS, Kobe, Japan ( August 6- 9, 2012). Presented poster On Interstellar dust models towards some IUE stars at an international conference titled Challenges in Astronomy: Observational advances held at Awaji Island, near Osaka, Japan (September 26- October 1, 2011). Talk titled Dust in ISM and inter-planetary medium given at Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting at IUCAA (January 2011). Talk titled Studying the effect of the grain structure on the dust opacity in proto-planetary disks given at MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany (August 2010). Talk titled Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Star formation for Vacation students programme/Summer school (VSP), IUCAA, Pune, May-June, 2010 IUCAA, Pune, India (June 2010). Talk titled Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and life of star : Its birth till death at Wadia College, Pune, India for undergraduate students (February 2010). Talk titled Interstellar modeling of Dust Extinction towards some IUE stars at Delhi University (January 2010). Talk titled Interstellar dust models towards some IUE stars at Vainu Bappu Observatory, Kavalur, Tamil Nadu, India (September 2009). Poster Presentation on Composite Grains: Effects of Porosity and Inclusions on the 10micron Silicate Feature at Indian Institute for Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore (February 2009).

Visits and other participations:

Participated in an international conference on Interstellar Dust, Molecules and Chemistry held at IUCAA, Pune (November 22-25, 2011). Visit to Max Planck institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Heidelberg in collaboration with Andras Zsom, Prof. Thomas Henning and Prof. Cornelis Dullemond (29 July - 01 October 2010). High performance computing in observational astronomy: Requirement and challenges , Inter university Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India (February 2010).

Workshop on Physics and Astrophysics of Dust II , Vainu bappu observatory, Kavalur, Tamil Nadu, India ( September 2009). 27th Meeting of the Astronomical society of India (ASI), Indian Institute for Astrophysics, Bangalore (Feburary 2009).

Organisation of Conferences, Workshops:

1. LOC member, international conference on Interstellar Dust, Molecules and Chemistry held at IUCAA, Pune (22-25 November 2011). 2. LOC member, Workshop on Light scattering, Gujrat College, Ahmedabad (November 2008).