Pradosh Barun Das

Pradosh Barun Das serves as an Academic Casual in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences within Macquarie University's Faculty of Science and Engineering, concurrently pursuing a PhD as a Higher Degree Research student. He previously held the role of Student Representative for the Astronomical Society of Australia from July 2023 to July 2025.

His academic foundation includes a BS-MS Dual Degree in Physics and Astronomy from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, awarded in May 2022 following research on Model Independent analysis of Cosmological Parameters.

Dr. Das specializes in observational stellar astrophysics, with core expertise in galactic archaeology, high-resolution spectroscopy, and stellar evolution. His work focuses on red giant evolutionary states (including Red Giant Branch and Clump phenomena), young stellar object kinematics, and asteroseismology, leveraging large-scale surveys like GALAH to analyze chemical abundances and stellar parameters across the Milky Way.

Publication trends from 2019-2025 reveal progression from targeted stellar spectroscopy (e.g., BD-19132 analysis) to leadership in massive spectroscopic datasets. Recent work emphasizes machine learning applications for stellar parameter determination in Gaia-RVS spectra and evolutionary diagnostics of red giants, demonstrating growing methodological sophistication in Galactic structure studies.