Dr. Annapurni Subramaniam is an astronomer and currently serves as the director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. She is also the first woman astronomer to head the institute.[1] She works on areas like star clusters, stellar evolution and population in galaxies and Magellanic clouds.[2][3]
Subramaniam finished her schooling from Victoria College, Palakkad, in science.[2] She did her PhD on the topic "Studies of star clusters and stellar evolution" from Indian Institute of Astrophysics in 1996.[3] Subramaniam also plays the violin, sometimes as an accompanying artist to her father[1], Carnatic musician Palakkad K.S. Narayanaswamy.[4]
Career
Subramaniam was a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics from 1990 to 1996. She then became a Post Doctoral Fellow in 1998 at the institute and currently works as a professor and director of institute.[3] She had also previously worked as Scientist-C at the IIA. She is an active member of the International Astronomical Union.[5] She leads a research group that explores various stellar populations to study the structure, evolution and chemical enrichment of Magellanic Clouds.[6][7][8] Subramaniam was also heavily involved with AstroSat, the first multi-wavelength space telescope mission from the Indian Space Research Organisation, where she served as the calibration scientist for the UV imaging telescope.[9][10][1]
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