September 2022: Welcome Mohit Bhardwaj, Our New Postdoc!
Mohit Bhardwaj received his bachelor's degree in electronics and electrical engineering and has an integrated master's degree in Physics from BITS Pilani in India. He will soon receive his PhD in Physics from McGill University. His research interests include astrophysical transients, interstellar medium, astrostatistics, observational cosmology and radio instrumentation. He is a member of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) where he works on a newly discovered astrophysical mystery, Fast Radio Burst (FRB). In his PhD work, he used local Universe CHIME bursts to decipher the origins of FRBs. FRBs, he believes, can provide a unique view into the aftermath of some of the Universe’s most violent events. In addition to solving the FRB origin problem, he wants to use FRBs to map the cosmic web. Finally, he is always on the lookout for unexplored enigmas of the Universe. So, if you know of any, don’t hesitate to contact him.