Pratik Majumdar

Awards/Recognitions 1. Recepient of Stanislaw Ulam fellowship by Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange for the year 2019-2020. Spent about 8 months in University of Lodz working on GeV-TeV gamma-ray astrophysics 2. MAGIC Young Scientist Award for the discovery of Very High Energy (VHE) gamma rays from Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar 3C279 in 2008 3. Leistungsprämie ( Career Bonus ) for contribution to analysis of MAGIC data towards multimessenger initiatives at DESY by DESY Direktorium in 2008-2009  Responsibilities 1. Currently serving as member in the WG-HEP and also Drafting Group (DG-HEP) of High Energy Physics for National Vision Exercise for Mega Science Programme 2035 constituted by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to GoI vide letter dtd 24th December, 2020 2. Deputy Software Co-ordinator of the MAGIC telescope collaboration since 2017 3. Calibration Co-ordinator of the prototype Large Size Telescope (LST) of Cerenkov Telescope Array (CTA) from 2014 till 2020 4. Working Group Leader of the Galactic Physics Working group of MAGIC telescope collaboration from June, 2015 till June, 2018 5. Member of Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) of COSPAR-2016 and COSPAR-2018 for the Scientific session Cerenkov Telescope Array:The Ground-based Eyes to Observe the Gamma-ray Universe Currently Running Projects and Grants 1. Member of the MAGIC Telescope collaboratrion. PI of the Neutrino Target of Opportunity Program for the year 2023-2024 2. Project Co-ordinator of DAE-BRNS proposal with Profs Saumyadip Samui and Ritaban Chatterjee, Presidency University 3. PI and Co-I in several proposals in ASTROSAT (the first Indian multiwavelength payload in X-ray astronomy) for observations of blazars