Chanda Jayanth Jog is an Indian astrophysicist working at the

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. Her study specializes in Galactic Dynamics, Interacting & Star Burst Galaxies and Interstellar Molecular Clouds. She has published around 85 articles surrounding galaxies and galactic dynamics.

Early life

Dr Chanda Jayanth Jog spent a part of her childhood at Kalwe in Maharashtra. Her father was an

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Career

After her Doctoral Studies from

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. She worked as a post doctoral fellow at Princeton and as professor in Virginia. She returned to India in 1987, where she continued her work at

. Her work has been in the area of star-gas instabilities and vertical-disk dynamics in galaxies, triggering of starbursts by shock compression of gas, lopsided galaxies, and the dynamics of interacting galaxies.

Awards and honours

* Prof. S. K. Chatterjee Award of IISc (2012) * Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad (2011) * Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2007)

References

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