Chanda Jog

Chanda Jayanth Jog is an Indian astrophysicist[1] working at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Her study specializes in Galactic Dynamics, Interacting & Star Burst Galaxies and Interstellar Molecular Clouds. She has published around 85 articles surrounding galaxies and galactic dynamics.[2]

Chanda Jayant Jog
Born7 November 1954
NationalityIndian
Alma materStony Brook University
Spouse(s)Aloke Jain
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsIISc

Early life

Dr Chanda Jayanth Jog spent a part of her childhood at Kalwe in Maharashtra. Her father was an Electrical Engineer.[3]

Career

After her Doctoral Studies from Stony Brook University. She worked as a post doctoral fellow at Princeton and as professor in Virginia. She returned to India in 1987, where she continued her work at Indian Institute of Science. Her work has been in the area of star-gas instabilities and vertical-disk dynamics in galaxies, triggering of starbursts by shock compression of gas, lopsided galaxies, and the dynamics of interacting galaxies.[2][3]

Awards and honours
  • Prof. S. K. Chatterjee Award of IISc (2012)
  • Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad (2011)
  • Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2007)[2]

References
  1. "Indian Fellow: Chanda Jog". Indian National Science Academy. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. "IISc Physic Department Chanda Jog". Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. Lilavati's daughters: The women scientists of India. Indian Academy of Science. 2007. pp. 139–142.


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