Suvrath Mahadevan is an Indian astrophysicist. Mahadevan graduated from

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT- Bombay or IIT-B) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. IIT Bombay is mainly known for the highly competitive four-year Bachelor of Tech ...

in 2000 with a degree in engineering physics. He subsequently moved to the United States, where he earned a doctorate in astrophysics from the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

in 2006. Mahadevan remained at the University of Florida until 2009 for postdoctoral research purposes, then joined the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsyl ...

faculty in 2009. In 2023, Penn State named Mahadevan the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is the Principle Investigator of two Extreme Precision Radial Velocity Spectrographs, The Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) on the Hobby Eberly Telescope and NEID https://neid.psu.edu/ on the WIYN Telescope.

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