Maitrayee Gupta
email: maitrayee.gupta@asu.cas.cz
phone: +420
I am Dr. Maitrayee Gupta, a postdoctoral fellow at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. My current research focuses on AGN physics, Green Pea galaxies, galaxy clustering, and the Athena X-IFU mission. One of my projects focuses on studying galaxy clustering over a range of masses and star-formation rates. I am also involved in studying the Lyman continuum escape from a sample of Green Pea galaxies.
I received my Ph.D. under Prof. Marek Sikora at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre (CAMK) in Warsaw, where my thesis focused on studying differences between radiative properties of the accretion flows in Radio Loud (RL) and Radio Quiet (RQ) AGN and their relation to jet production efficiency. For this work, I received the Preludium grant, and was later awarded the NAWA Iwanovska grant to investigate the variability of RL quasars at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) with Dr. Aneta Siemiginowska. Additionally, I received a grant from CfA to continue my research there after defending my thesis.
Previously, I held a postdoctoral position in Toulouse, France, where I was affiliated with the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP) under CNRS and CNES. There, I developed EXODUS, a software tool designed to detect faint, rapid transients in XMM-Newton data that might be missed by the standard pipeline. During this time, I also investigated variability properties and black hole masses of low-luminosity AGN.
My research interests include high-energy astrophysics, active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies, and X-ray astronomy. My skill set includes astrophysics, statistical data analysis, mathematics, variability detection and analysis, and model fitting. I am also well-versed in several programming languages and analytical tools, including Python, C, and C++.