Chandrima Ganguly

Chandrima is Wolfson's Henslow Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. They are a cosmologist interested in testing early universe models, and using cosmology to constrain particle physics and theories of gravity. 

Chandrima won the Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search scholarship and subsequently the INSPIRE-DST award in 2008. Chandrima completed their Master of Science in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad in 2013 and a Master of Advanced Study (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) at the University of Cambridge in 2014. Chandrima went on to finish their PhD in theoretical cosmology at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge in 2018

Chandrima is Wolfson's Henslow Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. They are a cosmologist interested in testing early universe models, and using cosmology to constrain particle physics and theories of gravity. 

Chandrima won the Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search scholarship and subsequently the INSPIRE-DST award in 2008. Chandrima completed their Master of Science in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad in 2013 and a Master of Advanced Study (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) at the University of Cambridge in 2014. Chandrima went on to finish their PhD in theoretical cosmology at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge in 2018

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