Academic Journey

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Employment:

Sept 2021 - Present NASA Hubble Fellow, Caltech
Sept 2021 - Sept 2021 David & Ellen Lee Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship, Caltech



Education:

2016-Aug 2020 PhD in Astronomy, Univ. of Maryland
2014-2016 M.S. in Astronomy, Univ. of Maryland
2010-2014 B. Tech. (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering with minor in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay




Awards/Achievements:

2021 NASA Hubble Fellowship, hosted at Caltech
2020 David & Ellen Lee Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship, Caltech
2020 Board of Visitors Outstanding Graduate Student Award for research excellence, Univ. of MD ($5k) 2020
- One award across Computer, Math, and Natural Sciences at Univ. of MD
2018-20 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in Astrophysics Division, with three years of graduate research support
2019 Andrew S. Wilson Prize for Excellence in Research, University of Maryland College Park
2019 Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize awarded by the American Astronomical Society
2019 Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award, University of Maryland College Park
2017 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship, for the prospect of long term contribution to the field of optics and photonics, International Society for Optics and Photonics
2016 Kulkarni Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship, Univ. of Maryland
2016 John Chi-Lin Wang Award for Academic Excellence, for best overall performance in grades, second-year project and qualifying exam, Dept of Astronomy, University of Maryland
2016 Best Student Presentation award at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, Edinburgh, UK
2016 Best Poster Award, Nanotechnology Day, University of Maryland
2014-15 Dean's Fellowship and Merit Fellowship, awarded to outstanding incoming graduate students, Univ. of Maryland
2011-14 Institute Technical Citation Award (2014), Institute Technical Color Award (2013) and Institute Technical Special Mention (2011 and 2012) from IIT Bombay for exceptional achievements in Technical Activities
2013 Summer Research Fellowship, awarded by Indian Academy of Sciences
2010 Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojna (Young Scientist Incentive Fellowship) awarded by Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India



Publications: Recent list, Google Scholar

Journals

2019 P. Gatkine, S. Vogel, S. Veilleux New Radio constraints on the obscured star formation rates of massive GRB hosts at z~2--3.5 , Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal
2019 P. Gatkine, S. Veilleux, A. Cucchiara The CGM-GRB Study. I. Uncovering The CircumGalactic Medium around GRB hosts at redshifts 2-6 , The Astrophysical Journal
2019 P. Gatkine, S. Veilleux, M. Dagenais Astrophotonic Spectrographs, Applied Sciences, MDPI
2018 Y. Hu, Y. Zhang, P. Gatkine et al. Characterization of Low Loss Waveguides Using Bragg Gratings, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
2017 P. Gatkine et al. Arrayed waveguide grating spectrometers for astronomical applications: new results, Optics Express 25 (15), 17918-17935
2016 T. Zhu, Y. Hu, P Gatkine, et al. Arbitrary On-chip Optical Filter Using Complex Waveguide Bragg Gratings, Applied Physics Letters 2016 108:10
2016 T. Zhu, Y. Hu, P. Gatkine, et al. Ultrabroadband High Coupling Effciency Fiber-to-Waveguide Coupler Using Si3N4/SiO2 Waveguides on Silicon, IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 8, no. 5, 2016



Conference Papers

2019 P. Gatkine, et al. Astro2020: Astrophotonics White Paper, Submitted to National Academy of Sciences for Astro 2020 Decadal Survey
2018 P. Gatkine, et al. Towards a multi-input astrophotonic AWG spectrograph, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 10706, 2018
2018 Y. Hu, Y. Zhang, P. Gatkine, et al. An Efficient Approach to Characterize Low Loss Waveguides Using Bragg Gratings, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA, paper JW2A.65
2016 P. Gatkine, et al. Development of high-resolution arrayed waveguide grating spectrometers for astronomical applications: frst results, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 9912, article id 991271, 2016
2013 P. Gatkine, K. P. Ray, New Method for Asteroid Shape Detection using Spherical-segmentation Based Delay Doppler Analysis, International Radar Symposium, India 2013



Observing Proposals


NICER PI, Target of Opportunity, 40 ks, The unusual spectral and temporal evolution of a nearby GRB 190829A (2019)
NUSTAR PI, Target of Opportunity, 40 ks, The unusual spectral and temporal evolution of a nearby GRB 190829A (2019)
VLA PI, Semester 2020A, 26 hours, Tracing the Molecular Gas in GRB host galaxies at z > 2
VLA PI, Semester 2018B, 24 hours, Measuring the star formation rate of massive GRB hosts in the CGM-GRB sample
HST Co-I, Cycle 25, 6 orbits, Coordinated Far-Ultraviolet and Radio Observations of the Feedback Engine in Quasar Mrk 231
Keck Co-I, Semesters 2018B, 2019A, ToO Spectroscopy of Gravitational Wave Counterparts: Constraining the Origin of r-process Elements
DCT PI, Semesters 2019A (3 nights), 2019B (3 nights); Co-I 2018A (3 nights) Gamma-ray bursts and their host environments using the 4.3-m Discovery Channel Telescope