Sukanya Chakrabarti
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti 601 Campbell Hall
University of CA, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Office: 531 Campbell
Fax: (510) 642-3411
sukanya@astro.berkeley.edu
Welcome! I am a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of CA, Berkeley. I received my Ph.d in Physics from UC Berkeley in 2005 where I did my thesis with Chris McKee on Spectral Energy Distributions of Embedded Protostars and Dusty Galaxies. During October 2005-October 2008, I was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard, and subsequently an Institute for Theory and Computation Fellow until January 2009. I work on galaxy evolution by performing hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical simulations of galaxies combined with radiative transfer calculations.
Since I moved to Berkeley, I have been working with Leo Blitz on characterizing dark sub-halos via their tidal gravitational effects on the gas disks of galaxies.
I also work with C.K. Chan to understand magnetic instabilities, in particular, the amplification of magnetic fields above equipartition in disk galaxies. I work with Barbara Whitney on developing numerical radiative transfer methodology. You can find our methodology paper on our code RADISHE here.