Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Institution: Harvard College Observatory, Harvard University
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranavsanghavi/
Postdoctoral position dates: 2022-2025
PI: Laura Newburgh
Summary of research at Yale:
Education:
Ph. D., West Virginia University, 2022
Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, 2014
Selected Publications:
Information updated 07/11/2025
Research Areas: Astrophysics & Cosmology
Research Type: Experimentalist
Experiments
Science goal: Measure the expansion history of the Universe and discover insights about dark energy.
WL involvement: The Newburgh group uses a technique called holography to map the beam shape of CHIME to be able to identify and remove emission from unintended sources.
A team of Yale postdoctoral associates and graduate students coordinated the 2025 Pint of Science Festival in New Haven from May 20-21, 2025.
The CHIME Collaboration—which includes researchers in professor Laura Newburgh’s group—has won the 2024 Buchalter Cosmology Prize.
