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Core Members

CASSA's Core Members across Astronomy & Astrophysics, Theoretical Physics, and Engineering.

Core Members

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Khan Muhammad Bin Asad

PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, IUB (Independent University, Bangladesh)

Trained at

PhD: University of Groningen, Netherlands · Postdoc: SARAO (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory), South Africa

Research

Probes the cosmic dawn and reionization through the redshifted 21-cm signal with LOFAR, and images diffuse radio halos in galaxy clusters with MeerKAT.

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Syed Ashraf Uddin

PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, IUB (Independent University, Bangladesh)

Trained at

PhD: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Postdoc: Texas A&M University, USA · Postdoc: Carnegie Observatories (Carnegie Institution for Science), USA

Research

Uses Type Ia supernovae as standard candles to measure cosmic distances, probe dark energy, and address the Hubble tension.

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Theoretical Physics

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M Arshad Momen

PhD

Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, IUB (Independent University, Bangladesh); formerly Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Dhaka

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PhD: Syracuse University, USA

Research

Theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory, gravitation and black holes, known for work on edge states and boundary phenomena in gravity.

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Engineering

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Mustafa Habib Chowdhury

PhD

Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, IUB (Independent University, Bangladesh)

Trained at

PhD: Texas A&M University, USA · Postdoc: University of Maryland, USA

Research

Designs plasmonic metal nanostructures with FDTD simulations to boost light absorption in thin-film solar cells and enable optical biosensing.