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Welcome to episode 30 of exploring astrophysics with me, Vikram Bhamre. Today I am joined by Dr. Kareem El-Badry, a researcher who works mostly in the analysis of binary star systems and has obtained the nickname ‘Black hole destroyer’ for some of his past work. Stay tuned to hear more about that!

Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of exploring astrophysics. Today I am speaking to Dr Lynne Hillenbrand, a professor of Astronomy at Caltech who is an expert in the formation and evolution of young stars and the formation of star clusters. Dr. Hillenbrand spoke to me about trying to learn more about the evolution of these young stars, whose processes are often hidden behind dust and gasses from the Nebula it is in. Her work is partly focus on the properties of the circumstellar disc, a disc of gas and dust that rotates around a young star.

Today I am joined by Dr Maria Charisi, a postdoctoral associate at Vanderbilt university. Her expertise is in looking for Supermassive Black-Hole Binaries: which are systems that are formed during the collisions of galaxies and weigh well over hundreds of millions of times our Sun. Dr Charisi also talked about her experience in academia and how she would describe it to someone potentially looking for a career in research.

In this episode, Dr Simcoe spoke about his research involving spectroscopy to look back into the early universe and search for the first stars. He also spoke about another interest of his - designing and building astronomical telescopes and instruments - and how it first began when he was still in high school. Lastly, he gave us a sneak peek into the job of a director of a huge astrophysics department like MIT's Kavli institute and the work that goes in to managing it.

Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Exploring Astrophysics and happy holidays to everyone! Today I am joined by Dr Gina Panopoulou, an observational astrophysicist at Chalmers University of Technology who specializes in mapping out the magnetic field of our galaxy.

Today I am joined by Dr Christian Byrnes, a senior lecturer at the University of Sussex who’s interest lies in the formation of the early universe.

Hi everyone, welcome to episode 24 of Exploring astrophysics with me, Vikram Bhamre. Between university applications and school starting, I didn’t have time to release an episode last month. But the wait is definitely worth it, because today I am joined by Dr Javier Garcia, an assistant professor of physics at California Institute of technology.

Hi everyone, today I am joined by Dr Kathy Romer, an astrophysicist at the University of Sussex. Dr Romer has been an astrophysicist for a very long time, having worked at Carnegie Mellon, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester and many others. She spoke about her interest in x-rays emitted from galaxy clusters.

Hi, my name is Vikram Bhamre, and welcome to episode 22 of this podcast, Exploring Astrophysics. Today I am joined by Dr Raissa Estrela, a postdoctoral associate at Nasa JPL who is uncovering the mystery behind planets outside our Solar System.

Hi everyone, today I am joined by Dr Olivier Hervet, assistant project scientist at UC Santa Cruz. Dr Hervet is fascinated by high energy astrophysics and is currently doing research in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and Gamma ray astrophysics.

Welcome to episode 20 of Exploring Astrophysics, where I am joined by Dr Xinnan Du, who is the Outreach and Engagement manager at KIPAC in Stanford. Dr Du spoke about her research interests as well as how she is helping educate and inspire the younger generation about astronomy.

Hi everyone, In this episode I am joined by Dr Tansu Daylan, who is a postdoctoral associate at MIT. Dr Daylan’s primary research interest is in the discovery and characterization of exoplanets.