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Mr. Keyur Modha

I am Keyur Modha, a doctoral student at The Indian Planetary Society, Mumbai, India, under Dr. J J Rawal. My research interests are Astrophysics and Cosmology. I have been working on few problems in the same subject during my doctoral research and my current area of research is Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. I have completed my Masters in Applied Physics from National Institute of Technology, Surat, India. I did a part of research during my Master’s thesis at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany (2018) under the guidance of Dr. Andreas Haungs. The topic of my dissertation research was “Analysis to measure anisotropies of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays”. The aim of the thesis was to study the combined reconstruction of energy spectrum and mass composition of the KASCADE and KASCADE-Grande detectors arrays. I also carried out a project at my home University (2015) on the Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID); where the effects of solar flares on Earth were measured by tracking changes in very low frequency (VLF) transmissions as they bounce off Earth’s Ionosphere. Recently, I attended 93rd Annual Session (2023) conducted by National Academy of Science India (NASI) and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) at BARC, Mumbai. I presented my work on “ Numerical Exploration and Optimization of Lagrange Points in Multi-Body Systems” through poster presentation.