Pawan Kumar

E-mail: pk@astro.as.utexas.edu                                                               Office: (512) 471-3412

Education

Ph.D.             Astrophysics                                                                               1988

                       California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

M. Tech          Computer Science                                                                       1980

                       Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Scientific Positions Held

2/02-                Professor, Astrophysics, University of Texas, Austin.

8/96-1/02         Visiting Professor, IAS, Princeton.

9/92-7/96         Assistant Professor, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

2/95-6/95         Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

7/91-8/92         Scientist II, at the High Altitude Observatory, Boulder.

9/88-2/89         Visiting scientist, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

7/88-7/91         Scientist I, at the High Altitude Observatory.

9/87-6/88         Postdoctoral fellowship, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder.

Awards

NSF Young Investigator Award 1994

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1993

Graduate Student Council Teaching Award, MIT, 1993   (awarded to one person a year in the school of science

Vainu Bappu Memorial Gold Medal of the Indian Astronomical Society, 1992