Hi!  I am Ayan!

I  am a PhD student who just loves to do random research in astrophysics.  I am affiliated to the Queen's University and Royal Military College of Canada. I created this website to summarize all the stuff I am doing now or those I did already. I will try to update it as frequently as possible. If someone wants to talk about any of the stuff I wrote in this website, feel free to contact me, I will be really excited! 

Please note that the contents are not organized sometimes, and may contain errors. Please inform if you find any discrepancies. So scroll down and look around!

I am an astrophysicist with primary research interests in stellar astrophysics. The topic of my PhD is "Aspects of Binarity in the Life and Afterlife of Magnetic Massive Stars". My research is based on multi-wavelength data obtained from various telescopes around the world (e.g. uGMRT, MeerKAT, VLA, XMM-Newton, Chandra XRO, TESS, DOT, CFHT etc.). However, at this moment, I am most comfortable with radio telescopes. As the name of my PhD thesis suggests, the primary focus of my research is to study how magnetic stars in binary behave differently. Please see my 'research' page for more details, both in simple words, and with complicated terminologies.

As I said, I like to study random cool astronomy stuff, especially if the word 'binary'  is involved. In astronomy, there are many types of couples. Some co-exist quietly (visual binaries); some bond quite well like a regular couple and help each other (spectroscopic binaries); some are really toxic (spoiler alert: one of them dies eventually); some are so far apart, but their bonding is too strong (binary AGNs); while some couples are potentially trying to bring new life (star-exoplanet system)! All of them are cool to watch from the earth. We are like the nosy neighbour who looks for spicy drama! Look for some here.


I am currently a research fellow and graduate teaching assistant in Queen's University (The Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy), and the Royal Military College of Canada (Department of Physics and Space Sciences). My PhD supervisor is Prof. Gregg Wade

Prior to this position, I was a senior research fellow at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA_TIFR), where I worked under Prof. Poonam Chandra. I obtained my M.Sc. from NCRA-TIFR (2022) and my B.Sc. degree in Physics from Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta (2018). If you are interested in NCRA's social life (with just pictures) follow this link!

My CV can be found on the CV webpage.

Please note that all the pictures used on this website are either clicked by me or generated by me unless stated otherwise. The cover photo on the 'home page' is an artwork made by artist Ignacio de la Calle for the 20th anniversary of XMM-Newton. If you are interested in my other hobbies, or if you want to see some more really amateur photographs, then go to my hobbies page.

Feel free to contact me regarding any website of physics-related topics. My email address: ayan.scc2@gmail.com or ayan.biswas@queensu.ca