Research Experience

• Postdoctoral Researcher       (Oct 2025 - present)  

                               Center for Cosmic Evolution Research,          

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon, South Korea

• Postdoctoral fellow                 (Sep 2024 - Aug 2025)

                              Astronomy & Astrophysics Division, PRL, Ahmedabad

Qualifications

Conferences and Talks

• Poster presentation on "From Clumps to Clusters: Star Formation Scaling Laws and Their Implications" at ASI 2026 held at IIT Guwahati, India, 15-19 May 2026, by Vineet Rawat and Manash Samal. 

• Delivered a talk titled “Probing Dust Grain Alignment and Evolution under Extreme Stellar Feedback in NGC 6334I using ALMA Polarization” at the Spring meeting of the Korean Astronomical Society (KAS), held at Suwon, South Korea, 08-10 April 2026.

• Delivered a talk titled "From Gas to Stars: Scaling Laws and Conversion Efficiencies in Dense Cluster-Forming Clumps" at the National Space Science Symposium (NSSS), India, 23-27 Feb 2026, by Manash Samal and Vineet Rawat.

• Delivered a talk titled "Star cluster formation and scaling laws in star-forming regions" at the Theoretical Astronomy Group, KASI, South Korea, on 22 Oct 2025.

• Magnetic Fields from Clouds to Stars (Bfields-2024) - Poster presentation on “Understanding the relative importance of magnetic field, gravity, and turbulence in star formation at the hub of the GMC G148.24+00.41” - Vineet Rawat et al., held at NAOJ, Tokyo, Japan, 25−29 March 2024.

• Delivered a talk titled “Exploring the interplay of magnetic fields, gravity, and turbulence in star formation at the hub of the GMC G148.24+00.41” at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) held at IISc Bengaluru, India, 31 Jan−4 Feb 2024.

• Delivered a talk titled “A TANSPEC view of a young cluster FSR 655 at the hub of the GMC G148.24+00.41” at PRL, India, December 2023. 

• Delivered a talk titled “Role of the magnetic field in cluster formation: A case study of G148.24+00.41 with JCMT SCUBA-2/ POL-2” at the JCMT users meeting 2023, 30 May−1 June 2023 (online).

• ASI 2023 - Poster presentation on “How do massive star clusters form? A case study on galactic molecular cloud G148.24+00.41” - Vineet Rawat et al., hosted by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India, 1−5 March 2023.

• Ph.D. Research Showcase 2023 - Poster presentation on “Understanding the dust properties and clustering structure of a giant molecular cloud G148.24+00.41” - Vineet Rawat et al., hosted by IIT-Gandhinagar, India on 27 January 2023.

• Delivered a talk titled “Understanding the cluster formation potency of massive dark clouds” at the 3rd Meeting on star formation held at ARIES, Nainital, India, 04−07 May 2022.

• ASI 2022 - Poster presentation on “Understanding the cluster formation potency of massive dark clouds” - Vineet Rawat et al., hosted jointly by IIT Roorkee and ARIES Nainital, India, 25−29 March 2022 (hybrid).

• Delivered a talk on “Understanding the connection between star formation rate and gas in galactic molecular clouds” at PRL, India, July 2021.

• ASI 2021 - Poster presentation on “Near-infrared and radio analysis of IRAS 23545+6508: a cluster in the process of making” - Vineet Rawat et al., hosted jointly by ICTS - TIFR Bengaluru, IISER Mohali, IIT Indore, and IUCAA Pune, India, 18−23 February 2021 (online).

• Attended the workshop on "Analyzing the Pelletron Accelerator & Low-energy ion beam facility" on National Science Day at IUAC, Delhi, India (2018).

• Poster presentation on “Gas Sensors” at Workshop held at Shyam Lal College, DU, India in April 2016.

Memberships