Université de GenèveDépartement de Physique ThéoriqueCAP Genève

Hamsa Padmanabhan

Hamsa Padmanabhan's picture
Position: 
Former member
Office: 
SCI 206
Phone: 
+41 22 379 6395
Email: 
Hamsa.Padmanabhan@unige.ch


Bio: 

Hamsa Padmanabhan joined the Departement de Physique Theorique, Universite de Geneve as Collaboratrice Scientifique II and principal investigator of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione Grant in September 2020. She was previously a CITA Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and a Tomalla post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She graduated from IUCAA, Pune, India with a Ph.D. in Physics in December 2015.

She has a wide breadth of research expertise, ranging from theoretical investigations (in quantum field theory and relativity) to data-intensive, observation-oriented astronomy and astrophysics. The novel halo model framework developed by her is used extensively in the community to interpret observations of atomic and molecular gas and to exploit the tremendous potential of future astrophysical surveys in the radio, millimetre and optical wavelengths. These studies, in which she plays an active role --- with collaborators from India, Europe, Canada and the USA --- probe both fundamental physics and cosmology.

She served as co-lead for the chapter on Cosmic Dawn and Reionization for the White paper on Fundamental Physics with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), one of the biggest astrophysics projects of the coming decades, and is a member of the Swiss SKA Communications and Outreach Network (SKACON).

Recent publications and presentations:

Date: 13. March 2020
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Topics: Supermassive Black Holes, Cosmic Reionization
Type: Publication
Date: 19. February 2020
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Topics: Line Intensity Mapping, Cosmology with Neutral Hydrogen
Type: Publication
Date: 30. October 2019
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Topics: Intensity Mapping, Line Intensity Mapping, Cosmology with Neutral Hydrogen
Type: Publication
Date: 7. October 2019
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Topics: Intensity Mapping, Line Intensity Mapping, Cosmology with Neutral Hydrogen
Type: Publication
Date: 29. July 2019
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Topics: Line Intensity Mapping, Intensity Mapping, Cosmology with Neutral Hydrogen
Type: Publication
Date: 29. July 2019
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Topics: Intensity Mapping, Line Intensity Mapping, Cosmology with Neutral Hydrogen
Type: Publication
Date: 21. March 2019
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Topics: Dark energy, Inflation, primordial non-Gaussianity, Cosmology with Neutral Hydrogen, Intensity Mapping
Type: Publication
Date: 14. March 2019
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Topics: Cosmology with Neutral Hydrogen, Line Intensity Mapping
Type: Publication
Date: 10. October 2017
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Topics: Cosmological constant, Theoretical Cosmology
Type: Publication
Date: 25. April 2017
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Topics: Cosmology with Neutral Hydrogen, Intensity Mapping, Line Intensity Mapping, Halo Model
Type: Publication

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