Dr. Kumar (born January 1, 1970) graduated from Purvanchal University, Jaunpur in year 1990 with Physics and Mathematics as major subjects. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Physics from IIT, Kanpur. Dr. Kumar joined ARIES in year 1999. He Holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Physics from Kumaun University, Nainital. He carried out his doctoral research on " Spectrophotometric studies of star clusters". He has extensive experience in optical astronomy observations, data analysis and interpretation of results in astrophysical terms. He spent a year on sabbatical in 2007 as post-doctoral researcher at Astronomy Department of University of Concepcion, Chile. He was a project scientist for the 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope which got commissioned in year 2016. He has experience of over two decades in science operations of 1-4 meter class optical telescopes.

 Studies of highly energetic cosmic explosions
 Formation and evolution of stars and galaxies
 Optical facility development and related instrumentation
 Science operations of Optical-NIR observational facilities

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