Projects that I have worked on

  • Gaia data archive: Contains the photometry, astrometry, and spectroscopic data captured by ESA’s Gaia mission.

  • Topcat: An interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data.

  • IRAF: A software for the reduction of astronomical images and spectra in pixel array form.

  • HEASoft: A software to manipulate FITS files for X-ray astronomical spectral, timing, and imaging data analysis.

  • MESA: Code to run experiments in stellar evolution.

  • German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (GAVO): The German contribution to the International Virtual Observatory Association, an international effort to create and expand the concept of Virtual Observatory.

  • DS9: An astronomical imaging and data visualization application.

  • VizieR: It provides the most complete library of published astronomical catalogues.

  • SIMBAD: An astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects

  • NASA/ADS: An online database for astronomy and physics papers from both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sources.

  • arXiv: It is an open-access repository of electronic preprints and post-prints approved for posting after moderation, but not peer review.

  • AAS Job Register: A database to find and post astronomy-related jobs.

  • EAS Job Directory: A database to find and post astronomy-related jobs.

  • Astronomy Conference: A database curated by the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre to find and post astronomy-related conferences and meetings.

  • Visual Studio Code: It is a code editor optimised for building and debugging.

  • Atom: It is a free and open-source text and source code editor.

  • Anaconda: It is a distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing that aims to simplify package management and deployment.

  • Jupyter Notebook: It is a web-based interactive computing platform.

  • Python: A high-level, general-purpose programming language.

  • Astropy: Python library designed for use in astronomy.

  • NumPy: A Python library for the analysis of large multi-dimensional arrays and matrices.

  • SciPy: A Python library used for scientific computing and technical computing.

  • Pandas: A Python library for data manipulation and analysis.

  • Scikit-learn: A machine learning library for Python.

  • TensorFlow: A library for machine learning and artificial intelligence.

  • Matplotlib: A plotting library for Python.

  • Seaborn: Python data visualization library.

  • plotly.py: An interactive, open-source, and browser-based graphing library for Python.

  • HDF5: An open-source file format that supports large, complex, heterogeneous data. Easily importable in Python.

  • FITS: An open standard defining a digital file format useful for storage, transmission and processing of data. Easily importable in Python.

  • C++: A high-level, general-purpose programming language.

  • MobaXterm: A toolbox for remote computing. It provides all remote network tools and Unix commands to the Windows desktop.

  • VMware Workstation: It enables users to set up virtual machines on a single physical machine and use them simultaneously along with the host machine.

  • VirtualBox: Similar to VMware, it is a cross-platform virtualization software.

  • Overleaf: Overleaf is a cloud-based LaTeX editor used for writing, editing and publishing documents.

  • Mendeley: It is a reference manager software.

  • Notion: It is a productivity and note-taking web application.

  • Lubuntu: It is a fast and lightweight operating system with a clean and easy-to-use user interface. It is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.

  • Ubuntu: It is a modern, open-source operating system on Linux.

Heidelberg interview questions

Refer to Rohan Kulkarni’s website. He provides an overview of the application process along with tips and suggestions for the interview.

The course catalogue of Heidelberg University can be found here.

References to building your own website

  • GitHub Pages: It is a static site hosting service that takes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files straight from a repository on GitHub.

  • Hugo: It is an open-source framework to build static websites. Hugo themes are available on GitHub.

  • Go/Golang: It is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language.

  • Youtube video to get you started with building your own website.