IAGRG Awards
N. R. Sen Young Researcher Award
Recognising outstanding early-career contributions in gravitational physics
About this Award
The N. R. Sen Young Researcher Award recognises young researchers for outstanding contributions to gravitational physics. The award was instituted at the 27th General Body Meeting of IAGRG, held on 8 March 2013 at HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar.
The IAGRG Council was entrusted with naming the award and framing the nomination and selection procedures.The award carries an honorarium and citation, and the recipient is typically invited to participate in the IAGRG meeting and deliver a lecture. This honour reflects IAGRG’s commitment to encouraging promising young scientists and recognising excellence at an early career stage.
Award Archive
Suvodip Mukherjee
For pioneering and diverse applications of statistical methodologies to astrophysical, cosmological and gravitational wave data analyses including their cross-correlations.
Kinjalk Lochan
Dhiraj Kumar Hazra
Sumanta Chakraborty
For prolific contributions to multifaceted aspects of classical and quantum gravity, in particular for testing predictions of alternative theories of gravity from gravitational wave observations.
P. Ajith
For his pioneering contributions to research on gravitational waves, by building waveform templates for non-precessing spinning binary systems and for developing tests of General Relativity from the consistency of the observed waveform produced during inspiral-merger-ringdown of black hole binaries.
K. G. Arun
For playing a key role in obtaining waveforms of gravitational radiation ensuing from coalescing compact binary systems, incorporating higher order post-Newtonian corrections, and his significant contribution in devising a novel test of General Relativity and alternative theories using gravitational waves.
Archana Pai
For important and timely contributions towards ground and space based detection of gravitational waves and for building up an IndIGO subgroup at IISER Thiruvananthapuram.
Sandipan Sengupta
For elucidation of the extraordinary role of the Nieh-Yan topological density in the canonical formulation of classical gravity as well as in the quantum theory.