Sankarasubramanian. K is an Indian solar scientist who works at th
U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC)
of

Indian Space Research Organisation The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ) is India's national List of government space agencies, space agency, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It serves as the principal research and development arm of the Department of Space (DoS), ...

(ISRO), India's national space agency. He is the principal scientist of

Aditya-L1 Aditya-L1 (Sanskrit: 'Sun', L1 ' Lagrange Point 1') is a coronagraphy spacecraft for studying the solar atmosphere, designed and developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and various other Indian Space Research Institutes. ...

, India's first solar mission, which was launched successfully on 2 September 2023. He is also heading the Space Astronomy Group of URSC

Education

Sankarasubramanian carried out his

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physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

at the

Indian Institute of Astrophysics The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), with its headquarters in Bengaluru, is an autonomous research institute wholly funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. IIA conducts research primarily in the areas of ...

, Bangalore, Karnataka, through the

Bangalore University Bangalore University (BU) is a public state university in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The university is a part of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and affiliated by University Gra ...

. His research areas of interest are

instrumentation Instrumentation is a collective term for measuring instruments, used for indicating, measuring, and recording physical quantities. It is also a field of study about the art and science about making measurement instruments, involving the related ...

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of optical instruments, instruments that use or Photodetector, detect it. Optics usually describes t ...

and the solar magnetic field. He obtained his

master Master, master's or masters may refer to: Ranks or titles In education: *Master (college), head of a college *Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline *Schoolmaster or master, presiding office ...

's degree in physics from The American College,

Madurai Madurai ( , , ), formerly known as Madura, is a major city in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the cultural capital of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Madurai District, which is ...

, Tamil Nadu, and

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's degree in physics from The MDT Hindu College, Tirunelveli. After his PhD from the

, Bangalore, Karnataka, he carried out his post-doctoral research at th
National Solar Observatory

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, US, where he was the principal investigator for th
Diffraction Limited Spectro-polarimeter instrument

Career

Sankarasubramanian has made numerous contributions to many of ISRO's missions, namely AstroSat,

Chandrayaan-1 Chandrayaan-1 (; from Sanskrit: , "Moon" and , "craft, vehicle") was the first Indian lunar probe under the Chandrayaan programme. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in October 2008, and operated until August 200 ...

, and

Chandrayaan-2 Chandrayaan-2 (; from Sanskrit: , "Moon" and , "craft, vehicle") is the second lunar exploration mission developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) after Chandrayaan-1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, the ''Vikram'' lunar l ...

. As of September 2023, he is in charge of the URSC's Space Astronomy Group (SAG), which is working to build scientific payloads for the

XPoSat The X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)-manufactured space observatory to study polarisation of cosmic X-rays. It was launched on 1 January 2024 on a PSLV rocket, and it has an expected operat ...

missions, and science payloads atop the

Chandrayaan-3 Chandrayaan-3 ( ) is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of Exploration of the Moon, lunar-exploration missions developed by the ISRO, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The mission consists of a Chandrayaan-2#Vikra ...

propulsion module. In October 2022, he was appointed the principal scientist of the Aditya L1 mission. He is the lead researcher for one of Aditya-L1's

X-ray An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays. Roughly, X-rays have a wavelength ran ...

payloads. Also, Sankarasubramanian is leading the Aditya-L1 Science Working Group, which includes researchers studying solar science from a number of Indian institutions and Universities.

References

External links

adsabs.harvard.edu
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