Annapurni Subramaniam

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Annapurni Subramaniam
Born
Palakkad (Kerala)
NationalityIndian
Alma mater Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Children2
Scientific career
Fields Astrophysics
Institutions Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Doctoral advisor Prof. Ram Sagar

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]

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Education and Early Life

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]

Field of research

Subramaniam's major field of research includes:

Her list of publications can be found on the Astronomy Database.

Current projects

At Indian Institute of Astrophysics, her current projects include:

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 Raju, Cris,Maria Teresa (1 February 2024). "I make my own space when it is denied to me: Astrophysicist Annapurni Subramaniam". The News Minute. Retrieved 25 February 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. 1 2 "Women in Science - Annapurni S" (PDF). Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Profile - IIA Annapurni S" . Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "Attention astronomy enthusiasts! Ladakh gears up for 'astro tourism'". Attention astronomy enthusiasts! Ladakh gears up for 'astro tourism'. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  5. ↑ "Annapurni Subramaniam". IAU. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  6. ↑ Subramaniam, A. (February 2005). "Reddening map of the Large Magellanic Cloud bar region". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 430 (2): 421–426. arXiv: astro-ph/0409492 . Bibcode:2005A&A...430..421S. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20041279. ISSN   0004-6361.
  7. ↑ Subramanian, Smitha; Subramaniam, Annapurni (22 December 2011). "The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud". The Astrophysical Journal. 744 (2): 128. arXiv: 1109.3980 . doi:10.1088/0004-637x/744/2/128. ISSN   0004-637X.
  8. ↑ Hota, Sipra; Subramaniam, Annapurni; Nayak, Prasanta K.; Subramanian, Smitha (1 December 2024). "UVIT Study of the MAgellanic Clouds (U-SMAC). II. A Far-UV Catalog of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Morphology and Kinematics of Young Stellar Population". The Astronomical Journal. 168 (6): 255. arXiv: 2409.13605 . Bibcode:2024AJ....168..255H. doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad7de2 . ISSN   0004-6256.
  9. ↑ Tandon, S. N.; Subramaniam, Annapurni; Girish, V.; Postma, J.; Sankarasubramanian, K.; Sriram, S.; Stalin, C. S.; Mondal, C.; Sahu, S.; Joseph, P.; Hutchings, J.; Ghosh, S. K.; Barve, I. V.; George, K.; Kamath, P. U. (1 September 2017). "In-orbit Calibrations of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope". The Astronomical Journal. 154 (3): 128. arXiv: 1705.03715 . Bibcode:2017AJ....154..128T. doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/aa8451 . ISSN   0004-6256.
  10. ↑ Tandon, S. N.; Hutchings, J. B.; Ghosh, S. K.; Subramaniam, A.; Koshy, G.; Girish, V.; Kamath, P. U.; Kathiravan, S.; Kumar, A.; Lancelot, J. P.; Mahesh, P. K.; Mohan, R.; Murthy, J.; Nagabhushana, S.; Pati, A. K. (June 2017). "In-orbit Performance of UVIT and First Results". Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. 38 (2): 28. arXiv: 1612.00612 . Bibcode:2017JApA...38...28T. doi:10.1007/s12036-017-9445-x. ISSN   0250-6335.
  11. ↑ Mathew, Blesson; Subramaniam, Annapurni (30 August 2011), "Optical spectroscopy of Classical Be stars in open clusters", Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 39 (4): 517, arXiv: 1108.5850v1 , Bibcode:2011BASI...39..517M, doi:10.48550/arXiv.1108.5850
  12. ↑ Mathew, Blesson; Subramaniam, Annapurni; Bhatt, Bhuwan Chandra (21 August 2008). "Be phenomenon in open clusters: results from a survey of emission-line stars in young open clusters". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 388 (4): 1879–1888. arXiv: 0804.1498 . Bibcode:2008MNRAS.388.1879M. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13533.x . ISSN   0035-8711.
  13. ↑ Indu, G.; Subramaniam, A. (1 November 2011). "The recent star-formation history of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 535: A115. arXiv: 1109.1061 . Bibcode:2011A&A...535A.115I. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201117298. ISSN   0004-6361.
  14. ↑ "Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (RVP) - 2024 : Final List of Awardees" (PDF). awards.gov.in. CASU, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  15. ↑ "Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar: Chandrayaan-3 team and 32 others selected for first ever edition". economictimes.indiatimes.com. The Economic Times. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2024.


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