Hello! I am Kishore Patra, a Nagaraj-Noll-Otellini Graduate Fellow working with Alex Filippenko and Wenbin Lu in the Department of Astronomy at University of California Berkeley. I am broadly interested in astrophysics with current focus on transient events including supernova explosions, tidal disruption events, X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions and fast radio bursts. I have a specialized expertise in the technique of measuring polarization as a function of light wavelength (spectropolarimetry).
Before coming to Berkeley, I graduated with a B.Sc. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. At MIT, I worked with Josh Winn and Nevin Weinberg on the search for orbital decay in exoplanets.
I grew up in a little village on the eastern coast of India before moving to the UK, and then to the US for higher education. I spend most weekends playing cricket across northern California. I like to try new hobbies - these days I’m into learning chess, reading about development economics, and exploring maps.
Contact
kcpatra@berkeley.edu
You can read some of my random musings and occasional writings below.