Professional Background

  • Associate Professor, (July 2024-present)
  • Assistant Professor, (January 2021-June 2024), SNBNCBS
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Beijing, China (November 2017- December 2020)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital, India (April 2017 - October 2017)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India (March 2014 - March 2017)

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. in Observational Astronomy (2013) from Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
  • M.Sc. in Physics (2007) from Visva Bharati University
  • B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics (2005) from Visva Bharati University

Awards:

  • Best Poster Award for the discipline: stars and Galaxy, during the XXXII meeting of the Astronomical Society of India at IISER Mohali, 2014.

Research Interests:

  • Galactic massive star formation
  • Feedback of massive stars on their surroundings environment
  • Circumstellar dust shell of post-main sequence
  • Astronomical Instrumentation

Significant Recent Publications:

  • Ariful Hoque, Tapas Baug, Estrella Guzman, et al., "The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: Evidence of an Explosive Molecular Outflow in IRAS 15520─5234", 2026, The Astrophysical Journal, 1001, 161
  • Shivani Gupta, Tapas Baug, Archana Soam, et al., "ATOMS-QUARKS Survey: Inflow and Infall in Massive Protocluster G318.049+00.086— Evidence of Competitive Accretion", 2026, The Astrophysical Journal, 999, 180
  • Diya Ram, Soumen Mondal, Anandmayee Tej, Tapas Baug, et al., "Magnetic Activities of GJ 1151: Flares in TESS Data and Radio Observation in uGMRT", 2025, The Astrophysical Journal, 994, 120
  • Ariful Hoque, Tapas Baug, Lokesh K. Dewangan, et al., "The ALMA-ATOMS Survey: Exploring Protostellar Outflows in HC3N", 2025, The Astrophysical Journal, 987, 197
  • Ariful Hoque, Tapas Baug, Lokesh Dewangan, et al., "Influence of Mid-infrared Galactic Bubble on Surroundings: A Case Study on IRAS 16489-4431", 2024, Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 93, 601.
  • Ke Wang, Yifei Ge, Tapas Baug, "The Milky Way atlas for linear filaments", 2024, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, L11.
  • Alik Panja, Lokesh K. Dewangan, Tapas Baug, et. al., "Observational Evidence of the Merging of Filaments and Hub Formation in G083.097+03.270", 2023, The Astrophysical Journal, 958, 17.
  • Yaping, Peng, Tie Liu, Sheng-Li Qin, Tapas Baug, et al., "ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions - X. Chemical differentiation among the massive cores in G9.62+0.19", 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512, 4419.
  • T. Baug, Ke Wang, Tie Liu, et al., "An ALMA study of outflow parameters of protoclusters: outflow feedback to maintain the turbulence", 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, 4316.