Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan

Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan is a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, specializing in radio astronomy and astrophysics. His work focuses on pulsar timing arrays, gravitational wave detection, and dark matter studies using advanced radio telescopes like MeerKAT. He is part of the TRAPUM collaboration and the European Pulsar Timing Array project, contributing to groundbreaking research in neutron star binaries and cosmic transients.

• Research Focus: Pulsar Timing Arrays, Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter, Neutron Stars, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), Binary Systems
• Awards: ERC Starting Grant Fellow

His recent publications highlight contributions to gravitational wave sky mapping, ultralight axion dark matter analysis, and the discovery of exotic pulsar systems in globular clusters. He also collaborates on TRAPUM projects for transient detection and neutron star merger rate studies.