Professional Background

  • Assistant Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (September 2025 - present)
  • Distinguished Post Doctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), Taiwan (June 2024 – August 2025)
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune (May 2021 – July 2024)
  • Post Doctoral Researcher, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore (September 2019 – February 2021)

Educational Background

  • PhD in Astrophysics from Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore (2020)
  • M.Sc. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (2014)
  • B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur (Calcutta University) (2012)

Research Interests

  • Interstellar Dust in galaxies
  • LyC leaking sources - Cosmic Reionization
  • Deep field - Multi-wavelength observation
  • Star formation in nearby galaxies
  • Stellar structure & kinematics in galaxies

Significant recent publications

  • Chayan Mondal, Kanak Saha, Anshuman Borgohain, Brent M. Smith, Rogier A. Windhorst, Naveen Reddy, Chian-Chou Chen, Keiichi Umetsu, and Rolf A. Jansen, “GNHeII J1236+6215: A He II λ1640 emitting and potentially LyC leaking galaxy at z = 2.9803 unveiled through JWST & Keck observationsâ€�, 2025, ApJ, Volume 988, Issue 2, id.171, 19 pp
  • Chayan Mondal & Sudhanshu Barway, "Discovery of a kinematically distinct component in the central region of the collisional ring galaxy AM0644-741", 2025, A&A Letters, Volume 698, id.L25, 9 pp
  • Ting-Kai Yang, Chian-Chou Chen, Zhen-Kai Gao, Bovornpratch Vijarnwannaluk, Adarsh Ranjan, Wei-Hao Wang, Caitlin M. Casey, Tomotsugu Goto, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Chayan Mondal, James Pearson, Chris Sedgwick, Stephen Serjean, "Unveiling a Population of Strong Galaxy-Galaxy Lensed, Faint Dusty Star-forming Galaxies", 2025, ApJ Letters, Volume 990, Issue 2, id.L38, 13 pp.
  • Shashank Gairola, Smitha Subramanian, Sreedevi M., Shyam H Menon, Chayan Mondal, Sriram Krishna, Mousumi Das, Annapurni Subramaniam, "Tracing Hierarchical Star Formation out to Kiloparsec Scales in Nearby Spiral Galaxies with UVIT", 2025, A&A, Volume 693, id.A188, 18 p
  • Chayan Mondal & Kanak Saha, "The AstroSat UV Deep Field North: The IRX–β Relation for the UV-selected Galaxies at z ~ 0.5- 0.7", 2024, ApJ, Volume 970, Issue 1, id.80, 11 pp
  • Chayan Mondal, Kanak Saha, Rogier. A. Windhorst, Rolf. A. Jansen, "Observed UV continuum slopes (β) of galaxies at z = 0.40 - 0.75 in the GOODS-north field", 2023, ApJ, Volume 946, Issue 2, id.90, 10 pp.
  • Chayan Mondal, Kanak Saha, Souradeep Bhattacharya, Anshuman Borgohain, Shyam N. Tandon, Marc Rafelski, Rolf A. Jansen, Rogier A. Windhorst, Harry I.
  • Teplitz, Brent M. Smith, "The AstroSat UV Deep Field North: the far and near ultraviolet photometric catalog", 2023, ApJS, Volume 264, Issue 2, id.40, 15 pp
  • Chayan Mondal, Annapurni Subramaniam, Koshy George, Joseph E. Postma, Smitha Subramanian, Sudhanshu Barway, "Tracing young star-forming clumps in the nearby flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 7793 with UVIT imaging", 2021, ApJ, Volume 909, Issue 2, id.203, 13 pp.
  • Chayan Mondal, Annapurni Subramaniam, Koshy George, "Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope View of Dwarf Irregular Galaxy IC 2574: Is the Star Formation Triggered Due to Expanding H I Shells?", 2019, AJ, Volume 158, Number 6, 15pp
  • Chayan Mondal, Annapurni Subramaniam, Koshy George, "UVIT imaging of WLM: Demographics of star forming regions in the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy", 2018, AJ, Volume 156, Issue 3, article id. 109, 16 pp.
  • Shyam N. Tandon, Annapurni Subramaniam, including Chayan Mondal et al., "In-orbit Calibrations of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope", 2017, AJ, Volume 154, Issue 3, article id. 128, 14 pp.