Alankar Dutta
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlankar Dutta is a postdoctoral research fellow in computational astrophysics with eight years of experience in high-performance hydrodynamic simulations, plasma modeling, and large-scale data analysis. Currently at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, he studies galaxy formation and astrophysical gas dynamics, building and running scalable simulations to probe complex plasma processes. Trained through an integrated PhD at IISc as a Prime Minister's Research Fellow, he blends rigorous theoretical grounding with hands-on HPC and data-driven techniques. Comfortable with both code and physics, he often tackles computational bottlenecks to extract observationally relevant predictions from noisy, large datasets.
7 years of coding experience
Integrated PhD, Computational Astrophysics, Integrated PhD, Computational Astrophysics at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Presidency College
English, Bengali, German, Hindi
Github Skills (77)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dutta-alankar/PH-354-2019-IISc-Assignment-Problems
Jan 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
dutta-alankar/cloudy-grids-line-emission
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:52 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
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