The Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Moon Research from your Rooftop

Samir Dhurde is in-charge of the popular outreach programme - SciPOP , at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune, India. He trained as a Radio Astronomer during his Masters' degree in Physics. He works professionally towards developing and using methods and activities to make Science and astronomy learning fun. Over the last decade he has been in many Education and Outreach advisory groups of organisations such as the ASI, TMT, LIGO-India, ISRO, IAU etc., putting in efforts to design large-scale educational programmes and resources in India and abroad. He has been awarded the national level Zubin Kembhavi award for outreach by the ASI for his work. He loves to travel across his vast and beautiful country to inspire children, encourage amateur astronomers to contribute to Science and to share Astronomy knowledge with his people.