Samata Das
CIM-Fellow Questions:
Please introduce yourself briefly I completed my education until my Master's in India and moved to Germany. I finished my PhD in October 2023 from the University of Potsdam. I start as a CIM fellow for 6 months at Ruhr University Bochum in April 2024 within the Collaborative Research Center "Cosmic Interacting Matters - from Source to Signal" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Julia Tjus.
What are your main research questions? During my PhD, the research focuses on supernova remnants, their (magneto)hydrodynamical evolution, and the particle acceleration in the shocks of remnants mainly for core-collapse scenarios. During this fellowship, I start to use the cosmic-ray propagation framework CR-Propa and apply it to cosmic-ray propagation in the Galactic Disc.
What motivates you to join our SFB as a CIM fellow? My PhD research work fascinated me to study the area of cosmic ray propagation and the working group of Prof. Julia Tjus, named Plasma Astroparticle Physics, at Ruhr University Bochum is largely involved in this research area. Also, the Collaborative Research Center SFB1491 in Ruhr University Bochum offers an opportunity to expand my knowledge of both state-of-the-art theoretical research and couple this with observations in Astroparticle physics.
Affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics IV, Ruhr University Bochum,
Current status: CIM-Fellow
Projects: Cosmic-ray signatures in dwarf galaxies: astrophysical foreground, dark-matter background,
