Congratulations to Sugata Kaviraj

Sugata Kavira has been awarded the 2011 Royal Astronomical Society 'A' Winton Capital award

Congratulations to Sugata Kaviraj

Dr Sugata Kaviraj, an Imperial Junior Research Fellow in the Astrophysics Group, has been awarded the 2011 Royal Astronomical Society ‘A’ Winton Capital award. The award, in the form of a £1,000 prize, is awarded for research by a Post Doctoral Fellow in a UK institution in astronomy whose career has shown the most promising development. The RAS commented that he has an outstanding record of research focussed on the stellar populations and evolution of early-type (elliptical) galaxies, analysing them in ultraviolet light using the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). Significantly, he found that rather than being ‘red and dead’ objects, they contain significant populations of young and intermediate age stars. Dr Kaviraj is exceptionally productive for an early career scientist, with more than 30 refereed papers in the last 4 years.