Core and Associate Members

Core Members

Khan Muhammad Bin Asad, PhD

Khan Muhammad Bin Asad, PhD

Dark ages, cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization, galaxy clusters, radio and x-ray observation

CASSA Director from 14 Aug 2025 for two years. Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, IUB. PhD from Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Postdoc at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory.
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Syed Ashraf Uddin, PhD

Syed Ashraf Uddin, PhD

Supernova cosmology, cosmic distance scales, transient astronomy

Associate Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, IUB. PhD from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Postdocs at Texas A&M University, and Observatories of The Carnegie Institution for Science.
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Mustafa Habib Chowdhury, PhD

Mustafa Habib Chowdhury, PhD

Photonics

Associate Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronic and Engineering, IUB. PhD from Texas A&M University, USA. Postdoc at University of Maryland, USA.
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M Arshad Momen, PhD

M Arshad Momen, PhD

Theoretical physics

Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, IUB. PhD from Syracuse University, USA. Former Professor of Theoretical physics, University of Dhaka.
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Associate Members

Syeda Lammim Ahad, PhD

Syeda Lammim Ahad, PhD

Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters

WCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, University of Waterloo, Canada. PhD from Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
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Tonima Tasnim Ananna, PhD

Tonima Tasnim Ananna, PhD

Accretion rate distributions of AGNs

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, USA. PhD from Yale University, USA. Postdoc at Dartmouth College, USA.
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Shah Mohammad Bahauddin, PhD

Shah Mohammad Bahauddin, PhD

Physics of Solar Corona, Heliophysics, Spectroscopy, Magnetohydrodynamics

Research Faculty, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. PhD from Rice University, USA.
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Tanveer Karim, PhD

Tanveer Karim, PhD

Cosmology, dark energy, dark matter

Postdoctoral Fellow, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Canada. PhD from Harvard University, USA.
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Lamiya Ashraf Mowla, PhD

Lamiya Ashraf Mowla, PhD

Formation and evolution of galaxies since the cosmic dawn

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wellesley College, USA. PhD from Yale University, USA. Postdoc at Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto, Canada.
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Payaswini Saikia, PhD

Payaswini Saikia, PhD

Accretion and ejection processes in compact objects

Associate Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University, USA. PhD from Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Postdoc at New York University, Abu Dhabi.
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Anowar Jaman Shajib, PhD

Anowar Jaman Shajib, PhD

Strong gravitational lensing, cosmology, galaxy evolution

KICP Fellow, Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, USA. PhD from University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
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Tabassum Shahriar Tanvir, PhD

Tabassum Shahriar Tanvir, PhD

Star formation, galaxy formation, planet formation

Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, USA. PhD from Australian National University.
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