BIJU KG

Personal Data

Presenent address            : Associate Professor

                                          Department of Physics

                                          WMO Arts & Science College Muttil PO,

                                          Wayanad.   PIN:673122

Permanent Address          : Koonammakkil House

                                                    Kakkavayal PO, North Kalpetta,

                                                Wayanad  - PIN:673122

Email                                : kgbiju42@gmail.com

Phone No                          : 9447546217                            

 Date of Birth                       : 05-05-1969

Education

Nov 2018                            : Ph.D in physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. Nov 1993                                    : M.phil in Physics, University of Calicut, Kerala.

  March 1991                              : MSc in Physics, St. Thomas College, Thrissur, Kerala.

Research

Area of research      : Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Ph.D Thesis             : Radio and optical studies of a selected sample of giant radio   

                                   galaxies and a merging galaxy cluster Abell 407.

Publications             :

1. Zwicky’s Nonet’: a compact merging ensemble of nine galaxies and 4C 35.06, a peculiar radio galaxy with dancing radio jets, K.G. Biju.;Joydeep Bagchi.;M. Pandey-Pommier.;Ishwara Chandra C.H.;Joe Jacob.;M.K. Patil.;Sunil Kumar P.;Mahadev Pandge.;Samir Dhurde.;Pratik Dabhade.;Madhuri Gaikwad.;Sheelu Abraham.;M. Vivek.;Ashish A. Mahabal.;S. G. Djorgovski., MNRAS, 2017,Volume 471, Issue 1, p.617-628
2. Megaparsec relativistic jets launched from an accreting supermassive black hole in an extreme Spiral Galaxy ; Joydeep Bagchi , M. Vivek , Vinu Vikram , Ananda Hota ,

K. G. Biju , S. K. Sirothia , Raghunathan Srianand , Gopal Krishna , and Joe Jacob; ApJ, 2014, 788,174.

3. GMRT observations of the radio source 4C 35.06: precessing jets from a cD galaxy under assembly?, Biju, K.G; Pandey-Pommier, M.; Sunilkumar, P.; Dhurde, Samir; Bagchi, Joydeep; Ishwara-Chandra C., H.; Ja- cob, Joe; BASI, ASI Conference Series, 2014, Vol. 13, pp. 155-156; 2014arXiv1411.7261G.

1. GMRT observations of a 2.2 megaparsec scale Giant Radio Galaxy, with ~650 kpc uninterrupted jet. K.G. Biju; Joydeep Bagchi; Joe Jacob; Pratik Dabhade; Bhargav Vaidya, Ishwara Chandra; Mahadev Pandge; Shishir Sankhyayan. -Poster; MWSKY-II conference; NCRA; Pune.
2. Multi-Wavelength Modelling of GRB 081007. Murthy,S.N; Resmi.L; Roy,R; Misra,K; Pai,A; SVOM Consortium, Biju,K.G.- Eighth Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium, held 24-28 October, 2016 in Huntsville, Alabama. LPI Contribution No. 1962, id.4055
3. Study of the radio spectral properties of 4C 35.06. Talk @ International seminar on Extragalactic Relativistic Jets: Cause and Effect,ICTS, Bangalore, October 16, 2015.
4. Multi-Wavelength Studies of Zwicky's Nonet. Talk @ 2nd Bina Workshop, Bressuls, Belgium, 10th October 2018.

Training Programmes attended :

1. IGO (IUCAA Girawali Observatory) training school at IUCAA, Pune.
2. Radio Astronomy School (RAS) at NCRA,Pune.

Recent Seminars/ Workshops co ordinated (2019-22) :

1. Officiated as organizing secretary in the Regional Astronomers meet, 'Research in Astronomy: Opportunities and Challenges VI ' (Online mode), during July 9-10, 2020, Supported by IUCAA.
2. Officiated as organizing committee member in the Regional Astronomers meet, 'Research in Astronomy: Opportunities and Challenges VII ‘ (Online mode), during September 8-10, 2021, Supported by IUCAA.