People · Members
Founding and active research members driving CASSA's research.
Core Members
Core Member PhD
Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, IUB (Independent University, Bangladesh)
PhD: Texas A&M University, USA · Postdoc: University of Maryland, USA
Designs plasmonic metal nanostructures with FDTD simulations to boost light absorption in thin-film solar cells and enable optical biosensing.
Core Member PhD
Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, IUB (Independent University, Bangladesh); formerly Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Dhaka
PhD: Syracuse University, USA
Theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory, gravitation and black holes, known for work on edge states and boundary phenomena in gravity.
Members
Associate Members
Associate Member PhD
WCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, University of Waterloo, Canada
PhD: Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Netherlands
Studies how galaxies grow and quench in groups and clusters, comparing cosmological hydrodynamic simulations against surveys like KiDS and Euclid.
Associate Member PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, USA
PhD: Yale University, USA · Postdoc: Dartmouth College, USA
Measures how fast supermassive black holes grow by constraining AGN accretion-rate distributions with X-ray surveys and neural networks.
Associate Member PhD
Research Faculty, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado Boulder, USA
PhD: Rice University, USA
Investigates why the Sun's corona is far hotter than its surface, using UV spectroscopy from IRIS and magnetohydrodynamic plasma models.
Associate Member PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Canada
PhD: Harvard University, USA
Probes dark energy and cosmology using the large-scale structure traced by emission-line galaxies in the DESI survey.
Associate Member PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wellesley College, USA
PhD: Yale University, USA · Postdoc: Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto, Canada
Studies how galaxies and their first star clusters formed since cosmic dawn, using JWST and HST imaging of lensed systems like the Firefly Sparkle.
Associate Member PhD
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University, USA
PhD: Radboud University, Netherlands · Postdoc: New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Studies accretion onto and jets launched from compact objects — black holes and neutron stars — with multiwavelength monitoring from radio to X-ray.
Associate Member PhD
KICP Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, USA
PhD: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Uses strong gravitational lenses to measure the Hubble constant through time-delay cosmography and to map dark matter in massive galaxies.
Associate Member PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, USA
PhD: Australian National University (ANU), Australia
Runs magnetohydrodynamic simulations of collapsing clouds to study how stars acquire their masses and how magnetic fields shape planet-forming disks.
Six of the eight Associate Members hold "Founding" status per the CASSA Constitution v2.0 Appendix A. Tonima Tasnim Ananna and Tabassum Shahriar Tanvir are Associate Members without Founding designation.