Das, Indrani 印卓妮

Postdoc Fellow

Personal Homepage

Office: ASMAB 1405

Email: idasasiaa.sinica.edu.tw

0000-0002-7424-4193

My Publications from ADS

Research Interests

My main focus in research revolves around addressing the fundamental key questions on the star and planet formation, with a particular emphasis on core collapse, role of magnetic fields in the very earliest stages of star formation and evolution of their protoplanetary disks through the utilization of cutting-edge magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, semi-analytical modelling. In addition, I study the accretion mechanisms of forming stars, for example, episodic accretion outbursts, and the evolution of dust dynamics within the magnetized gas-dust protoplanetary disks to explore the prospects of first-generation planetesimal formation, which are the building blocks of planets. Furthermore, I also study the gravitational magnetized fragmentation of molecular cloud and how they form dense cores, which are birth sites for star formation. The numerical and theoretical modelling allow us to delve deeper into the underlying physics and to better understand the direct observations of star-disk systems in our magnetized universe. If you're further interested, please refer to my personal homepage.

How the protoplanetary disk forms around the young star L1527 IRS: ALMA discovers the “ENDTRANZ” Missing Link

How does a chaotic star-forming cloud become a planet-forming disk — Theoretical and Observational Evidences of ENDTRANZ

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Positions

• Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan (2022~present)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Physics), University of Western Ontario, London, Canada (2018~2022)
• Master of Science (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (2015~2017)
• Bachelor of Science (Physics), Bethune College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India (2012~2015)

Honors & Awards

• Awarded Academia Sinica (AS) Fellowship (2023~2024)
• Awarded Graduate Teaching Assistant Award of Excellence by the Department of Physics & Astronomy of University of Western Ontario (2022)
• Awarded the Lillian Margaret & Walter David Jackson Scholarship in Physics for the academic excellence in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Western Ontario (2021~2022)
• Awarded Mitacs Globalink Research Award (2021)
• Awarded "INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education" by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (2012~2017)

Journal Papers affiliated with ASIAA(4)

1. Das I; Basu S; Ohashi N; Vorobyov E; Aso Y, "Modeling the Break in the Specific Angular Momentum within the Envelope─Disk Transition Zone", ApJ: 1001(2), id.166, Apr, 2026 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
2. Das I; Vorobyov E; Basu S, "Accretion bursts in young intermediate-mass stars make planet formation challenging", ApJ: 983(2), id.163 (20pp), Apr, 2025 [SCI]
3. Das I; Shang H; Krasnopolsky R, "How Does a Protostar Form by Magnetized Gravitational Collapse?", ApJ: 982(2), id. 193 (28pp), Mar, 2025 [SCI]
4. Liu C-F; Shang H; Johnstone D; Ai T-H; Lee TM; Krasnopolsky R; Hirano N; Dutta S; Hsu S-Y; López-Vázquez JA; Liu S-Y; Liu T; Tatematsu KI; Zhang Q; Rawlings MG; Eden D; Ren Z; Sanhueza P; Kwon W; Lee CW; Kuan Y-J; Bandopadhyay S; Väisälä MS; Lee C-F; Das I, "ALMA Survey of Orion Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (ALMASOP): Nested Morphological and Kinematic Structures of Outflows Revealed in SiO and CO Emission", ApJ: 979(1), id.17, Jan, 2025 [SCI]