Research Area
Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research Interests
Multi-wavelength dust polarization observations; Interstellar medium (ISM); Interstellar Medium (ISM), polarization properties of dust grains; Magnetic fields; Turbulence, gravity, and stellar feedback; Molecular clouds and dense cores; Low- and high-mass star formation Circumstellar environments; HI Zeeman splitting experiment; Cosmic Magnetic fields
Since - 2025 : Assistant Professor, IISER Mohali
2021 - 2025 : Ramanujan Fellow, IISER Tirupati
2018 - 2021 : FAST distinguished postdoctoral fellow (FAST-Fellow), NAOC, Beijing, China
2015 - 2018 : MOST postdoctoral researcher, NTHU, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2013 - 2015 : MOST postdoctoral researcher, NCU, Zhongli, Taiwan
2013 - 2013 : postdoctoral fellow, ARIES, Nainital, India
2006 - 2013 : PhD, Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), Nainital, India
2004 - 2006 : MSc, Sri Venkateswara University (SVU), Tirupati
2001 - 2004 : BSc, Sri Venkateswar (SV) Arts College, Tirupati / Sri Venkateswara University (SVU), Tirupati
2023 : Best Reviewer Of Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (JOAA)-2023
2024 - 2027 : Core Research Grant (CRG), by NARF, Govt. of India
2021 - 2025 : Ramanujan Fellowship, by NARF, Govt. of India
2018 - 2021 : FAST fellowship, NAOC, China
2015 - 2018 : Postdoctoral Fellowship, NTHU, Taiwan
2013 - 2015 : Postdoctoral Fellowship, NCU, Taiwan
2013 - 2013 : Postdoctoral Fellowship, ARIES, India
2015 : Best oral presentation award, ASROC, 2015, Taiwan
A ~K Ashesh, Chakali Eswaraiah, Ujwal P Reddy and Jia-wei Wang. VolDen: A tool to extract number density from the column density of filamentary molecular clouds. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 46(1):12, 2025. DOI
N Bijas, Chakali Eswaraiah, Panigrahy Sandhyarani, Jessy Jose and Maheswar Gopinathan. A comparative study of dust grain polarization efficiencies in the interstellar and intracluster mediums towards anticentre galaxy. \mnras 529(4):4234-4247, 2024. DOI
R Anirudh, Chakali Eswaraiah, Sihan Jiao and Jessy Jose. Role of magnetic fields in the fragmentation of the Taurus B213 filament into Sun-type star-forming cores. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 44(2):59, 2023. DOI
N Bijas, Chakali Eswaraiah, Jia-Wei Wang, Jessy Jose, Wen-Ping Chen, Di Li, Shih-Ping Lai and D ~K Ojha. Revealing the dust grain polarization properties as a function of extinction and distance towards NGC 1893. \mnras 515(3):3352-3369, 2022. DOI
Chakali Eswaraiah, Di Li, Ray S Furuya, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Derek Ward-Thompson, Keping Qiu, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Kate Pattle, Sarah Sadavoy, Charles L ~H Hull, David Berry, Yasuo Doi, Tao-Chung Ching, Shih-Ping Lai, Jia-Wei Wang, Patrick M Koch, Jungmi Kwon, Woojin Kwon, Pierre Bastien, Doris Arzoumanian, Simon {Coudé}, Archana Soam, Lapo Fanciullo, Hsi-Wei Yen, Junhao Liu, Thiem Hoang, Wen Ping Chen, Yoshito Shimajiri, Tie Liu, Zhiwei Chen, Hua-bai Li, -Ran A Lyo, Jihye Hwang, Doug Johnstone, Ramprasad Rao, Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Pham Ngoc Diep, Steve Mairs, Harriet Parsons, Motohide Tamura, Mehrnoosh Tahani, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Fumitaka Nakamura, Hiroko Shinnaga, Ya-Wen Tang, Jungyeon Cho, Chang Won Lee, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Kazunari Iwasaki, Lei Qian, Jinjin Xie, Dalei Li, Hong-Li Liu, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Mike Chen, Guoyin Zhang, Lei Zhu, Jianjun Zhou, Philippe {André}, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Jinghua Yuan, Xing Lu, Nicolas Peretto, Tyler L Bourke, Do-Young Byun, Sophia Dai, Yan Duan, Hao-Yuan Duan, David Eden, Brenda Matthews, Jason Fiege, Laura M Fissel, Kee-Tae Kim, Chin-Fei Lee, Jongsoo Kim, Tae-Soo Pyo, Yunhee Choi, Minho Choi, Antonio Chrysostomou, Eun Jung Chung, Le Ngoc Tram, Erica Franzmann, Per Friberg, Rachel Friesen, Gary Fuller, Tim Gledhill, Sarah Graves, Jane Greaves, Matt Griffin, Qilao Gu, Ilseung Han, Jennifer Hatchell, Saeko Hayashi, Martin Houde, Koji Kawabata, Il-Gyo Jeong, Ji-hyun Kang, Sung-ju Kang, Miju Kang, Akimasa Kataoka, Francisca Kemper, Mark Rawlings, Jonathan Rawlings, Brendan Retter, John Richer, Andrew Rigby, Hiro Saito, Giorgio Savini, Anna Scaife, Masumichi Seta, Gwanjeong Kim, Kyoung Hee Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Florian Kirchschlager, Jason Kirk, Masato I ~N Kobayashi, Vera Konyves, Takayoshi Kusune, Kevin Lacaille, Chi-Yan Law, Sang-Sung Lee, Yong-Hee Lee, Masafumi Matsumura, Gerald Moriarty-Schieven, Tetsuya Nagata, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Takashi Onaka, Geumsook Park, Xindi Tang, Kohji Tomisaka, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Serena Viti, Hongchi Wang, Anthony Whitworth, Hyunju Yoo, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Tetsuya Zenko, Yapeng Zhang, Ilse Looze, Darren C Dowell, Stewart Eyres, Sam Falle, Jean-François Robitaille and Sven Loo. The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Revealing the Diverse Magnetic Field Morphologies in Taurus Dense Cores with Sensitive Submillimeter Polarimetry. \apjl 912(2):L27, 2021. DOI
Chakali Eswaraiah, Di Li, Manash R Samal, Jia-Wei Wang, Yuehui Ma, Shih-Ping Lai, Annie Zavagno, Tao-Chung Ching, Tie Liu, Kate Pattle, Derek Ward-Thompson, Anil K Pandey and Devendra K Ojha. Unveiling the Importance of Magnetic Fields in the Evolution of Dense Clumps Formed at the Waist of Bipolar H II Regions: A Case Study of Sh 2-201 with JCMT SCUBA-2/POL-2. \apj 897(1):90, 2020. DOI
Chakali Eswaraiah, Shih-Ping Lai, Yuehui Ma, Anil K Pandey, Jessy Jose, Zhiwei Chen, Manash R Samal, Jia-Wei Wang, Saurabh Sharma and D ~K Ojha. Polarimetric and Photometric Investigation of the Dark Globule LDN 1225: Distance, Extinction Law, and Magnetic Fields. \apj 875(1):64, April 2019. DOI
Chakali Eswaraiah, Shih-Ping Lai, Wen-Ping Chen, A ~K Pandey, M Tamura, G Maheswar, S Sharma, Jia-Wei Wang, S Nishiyama, Y Nakajima, Jungmi Kwon, R Purcell and A ~M {Magalhães}. Understanding the Links among the Magnetic Fields, Filament, Bipolar Bubble, and Star Formation in RCW 57A Using NIR Polarimetry. \apj 850(2):195, December 2017. DOI
C Eswaraiah, G Maheswar, A ~K Pandey, J Jose, A ~N Ramaprakash and H ~C Bhatt. A study of the starless dark cloud LDN 1570: Distance, dust properties, and magnetic field geometry. Åp 556:A65, 2013. DOI
C Eswaraiah, A ~K Pandey, G Maheswar, W ~P Chen, D ~K Ojha and H ~C Chandola. Broad-band optical polarimetric studies towards the Galactic young star cluster Berkeley 59. \mnras 419(3):2587-2605, January 2012. DOI
C Eswaraiah, A ~K Pandey, G Maheswar, Biman J Medhi, J ~C Pandey, D ~K Ojha and W ~P Chen. A multiwavelength polarimetric study towards the open cluster NGC 1893. \mnras 411(3):1418-1434, 2011. DOI