Piyali Chatterjee
Associate Professor
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPiyali Chatterjee is an associate professor and solar physicist based in Bengaluru with 17 years of research experience in solar activity, space weather, and magnetohydrodynamic simulations. She leads and contributes to work on solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and astrophysical dynamos, building on postdoctoral roles at HAO/NCAR, University of Oslo (F-CHROMA), NORDITA and TIFR. Trained with an MS+PhD in Physics from IISc, she combines deep theoretical insight with simulation-driven modeling of flare and CME initiation mechanisms. Active in academic outreach and science communication (tweets at @piyalico), she bridges detailed numerical experiments and observational implications for space weather forecasting. An understated but distinguishing trait is her sustained cross-institutional collaboration across Europe, the US, and India, bringing a global perspective to solar-terrestrial research.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MS+PhD, Physics, MS+PhD, Physics at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)B. Sc, Physics, B. Sc, Physics at D. G. Ruparel College Mumbai
Github Skills (9)
fenics10
hydrodynamics10
finite-difference10
diffraction10
multiphysics9
density-functional-theory9
snl-applications9
petsc9
finite-element-analysis9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
mppiyali/runsdirs_pencil
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pencil-code/pencil-code
Mar 2009 - Mar 2022
A high-order finite-difference code for compressible hydrodynamic flows with magnetic fields and particles
Contributions:193 commits, 154 pushes, 2 comments in 13 years 2 months
snl-applicationsfinite-differencemagnetic-fieldspicfinite
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