Name: Vasanth Veluchamy

Title: Postdoctoral Scientist

Address:School of Space

Science and Physics, Shandong University,Weihai,

Shandong, China, 264209Email: vasanth_velu2007@yahoo.co.in

RESEARCH

INTERESTS

Solar Radio Emissions, CMEs andSpace weather effects

EMPLOYMENT

January 2014 – Present, Visiting

Research Scientist,

Institute of Space Sciences, School of

Space Science and Physics, Shandong University, Weihai, China.

April 2012 – September 2013, UGC – BSR

Junior Research Fellow,

School of Physics, Madurai Kamaraj

University, Madurai – 625021, India

January 2010 – January 2012, University

Stipendiary Research Fellow,

School of Physics, Madurai Kamaraj

University, Madurai – 625021, India

EDUCATION

2010 – 2013:PhD, (Physics), School of Physics, Madurai Kamaraj University,Madurai – 625021, India.

Thesis title:“Investigations

on Some Features of CMEs and Type II Solar Radio Bursts”

2006 – 2008:MSc, (Physics), School of Physics, Madurai Kamaraj University,Madurai – 625021, India.

2003 – 2006:BSc (Physics), VHNSN College, Virudhunagar – 626001, India.

CONFERENCE/SCHOOLATTENDED

13th YAM (Young Astronomer Meeting) held

at Astronomy and Astrophysics Division, PRL, Ahamedabad, India.

1st Asia Pacific Solar Physics meeting

held at Indiain Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India.

39th COSPAR Scientic Assembly held at

Infosys Training Centre, Mysore, India.

International Symposium on Solar

Terrestrial Physics (ISSTP – 2012) held at IISER, Pune, India.

30th meeting of Astronomical Society of

India (ASI – 2013) held at IISER, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

“SERC School on Astronomy and

Astrophysics” Organized at the (NCRA – TIFR) Pune, during June 14 to July 10,

2010.

AWARDS

UGC – BSR Meritorious Fellowship in

sciences – April 2012 – September 2013

University Stipendiary Research

Fellowship (USRF) – January 2010 – January 2012

MEMBERSHIP

Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)

PUBLICATIONS

1)

V. Vasanth, S. Umapathy, Bojan Vršnak , Tomislav

Žic and O. Prakash,Investigation on the

coronal magnetic field using a type II solar radio burst, Solar Physics,

2014, 289, 251 – 261.

2)

V. Vasanthand S. Umapathy,A Statistical study on DH CMEs and its Geo-effectiveness, ISRN

Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013, Article ID 129426, 13 pages. Doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/129426.

3)

V. Vasanthand S. Umapathy,A Statistical study on the CMEs associated with DH-type-II Radio Bursts

(Disk and Limb events), Solar Physics, 2013, 282, 239-247.

4) O. Prakash, S. Umapathy, A. Shanmugaraju

andV. Vasanth,Kinematics and flare properties of radio-loud CMEs, Solar Physics,

2012, 281, 765 – 777.

5) M. Anna Lakshmi, S. Umapathy, O. Prakash

andV. Vasanth,Studies on Some Properties of Coronal Mass Ejections based on Angular

width, Astrophysics and Space Science, 2011, 335, 373 - 378.

6)

V. Vasanth, S. Umapathy, Bojan Vršnak and M. Anna

Lakshmi ,Characteristics of Type II

Radio Bursts associated with Flares and CMEs, Solar Physics, 2011, 273, 143

– 162.