Contact
Department of Theoretical Physics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Homi Bhabha Road
Mumbai 400005, India
Office: A323
Email: kulkarni@theory.tifr.res.in
Phone: +91 (0) 22–22782427
News
- July 2026: New paper titled: Forest without Trees is still Fruitful: Constraints on the thermal state of the neutral IGM at z≈5.6 with the 21-cm forest power spectrum
- June 2026: New paper titled: Scalable Bayesian data curation for next-generation radio experiments
- June 2026: New paper titled: The impact of source and survey modelling on the connection between [O III] emitters and Lyα forest transmission at z∼6
- March 2026: New paper titled: Optimisation of calibration sources for global 21-cm experiments: the REACH case
- January 2026: New paper titled: TORRCH: Tomographic reconstruction of the reionization of cosmic hydrogen with Lyα emitters and non-Lyα-selected galaxies
People
Soumak Maitra (Postdoctoral researcher; epoch of reionization)
Pooja Rani (PhD student; cosmic dawn)
Supriyo Saha (PhD student; epoch of reionization)
Jahaan Thakkar (PhD student; epoch of reionization)
Akshat Tripathi (MSc student; intergalactic medium)
Swanith Upadhye (PhD student; epoch of reionization)
Shikhar Asthana (former master’s student; now at Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute)
Nabendu Khan (former PhD student; now at Southern Methodist University)
Shikhar Mittal (former PhD student; now at University of Cambridge)
Sooryabalan Murugesan (former master’s student; now at Chennai Mathematical Institute)
Vibin Narayanan (former PhD student)
Sameer Patil (former guest researcher; now at IIT Bombay)
Janakee Raste (former postdoctoral researcher)
Sreeta Roy (former master’s student; now at University of Warsaw)
Mohit Saharan (former master’s student; now at Radboud University)
Sindhu Satyavolu (former PhD student; now at Institute for High Energy Physics, Barcelona)
Yash Sharma (former master’s student; now at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
Tomáš Šoltinský (former postdoctoral researcher; now at INAF Trieste)
Krishna Vijayan (former master’s student; now at University of Hertfordshire)
Recent Talks
2026 May 7: “Prospects of a Tomographic Reconstruction of Reionization using Lyman-α Emitters” (Focus Meeting on Reionization, Kavli Institute of Cosmology, Cambridge, UK)
2026 April 8: “Reionization as a Lever on Cosmology” (“Cross-Survey Cosmography” conference, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India)
2026 April 2: “Towards Understanding the Epoch of Reionization out to the Cosmic Dawn” (IISER Mohali, Mohali, India)
2026 April 1: “From ChatGPT to AI Agents: New Tools for Research, Teaching, and Academic Life” (IISER Mohali, Mohali, India)
2026 March 18: “Using AI for Research” (“DAE-STFC Technology and Skills Programme Finale” conference, Mumbai, India)
2026 March 10: “Updates from the REACH Project” (School and Workshop on 21-cm Cosmology, Mumbai, India)
2026 March 5: “21-cm synergies with other probes of the high-redshift universe” (School and Workshop on 21-cm Cosmology, Mumbai, India)
2026 February 1: “Cosmic Dawn: Three Mysteries from the Universe’s First Billion Years” (TIFR “Chai and Why” Public Lecture, Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai, India)
2026 February 1: “Cosmic Dawn: Three Mysteries from the Universe’s First Billion Years” (TIFR “Chai and Why” Public Lecture, Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai, India)
2025 December 9: “Reionization as a Lever on Cosmology” (“Rethinking Cosmology” conference, Bengaluru, India)
Teaching
2019: Mathematical Methods
2019: Numerical Methods
2020: Computational Physics
2023: Numerical Methods
2024: Computational Physics