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Member of the muX collaboration which studies muonic atoms at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI),Switzerland. I was involved in successful data-taking shifts in 2019 for studying the 2s-1s transition in muonic zinc which opens doors to realize parity violating observables in muonic atoms. Successfully analyzed similar data for muonic krypton to separate out and observe the 2s-1s transition which also constitutes my Ph.D. thesis. Analysis was carried out using tools like C++, Python and ROOT which is a library specifically developed for particle physics data analysis by CERN.

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant.Teaching duties consisted of demonstrating laboratory practicals to Physics major students and Engineering students. Actively graded the lab reports and provided feedback to students, helping them develop skills for effective data-taking and analysis.As a Research Assistant, I was involved in the MUon proton Scattering Experiment (MUSE) at the Paul-Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland. Helped construct the straw tubes at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Isreal for the straw-tube chamber detector in the experiment. Later, also helped them assemble into the detector at PSI. I was also involved in data-taking shifts for the J/Ψ Pentaquark experiment at the Jefferson Lab, Virginia, USA.

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant.Teaching duties consisted of demonstrating laboratory practicals to Physics major students and Engineering students. Actively graded the lab reports and provided feedback to students, helping them develop skills for effective data-taking and analysis. Also, tutored a group of students and conducted assignment discussion sessions for them for one semester.As a Research Assistant, helped analyze the gain and efficiency of 2000 Photo-multiplier Tubes (PMT) from the Ring-Imaging Cherenkov Detector (RICH).

Taught bachelor level Physics course in the Department of Bioanalytical Science

Taught Bachelor level Physics course and laboratory practicals

Worked as a summer intern at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) in a Magnetic Materials Research lab. Studied magnetic materials, their properties, and structural characteristics. This experience also helped me handle instruments like the Vacuum Pump, Arc Furnace, SQUID PPMS, and X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD). I learned techniques like curve fitting and graph plotting using ‘Origin’ and determining lattice structures of samples using the Powder Cell software.