Anto I Lonappan

I hail from the beautiful city of Pathanamthitta in Kerala, India. My educational journey began at the Seventh-day Adventist School, and I later attended St. Pius X in Kuttikanam for my higher secondary education. Drawn to physics from an early age, I began my Bachelor's degree at St. Berchman's College, Changanassery, in 2010 and completed my Master's degree in Physics there in 2016. During my Master's program, my fascination with cosmology deepened, leading to a thesis on the Bayesian inference of cosmological data under the guidance of Dr. Charles Jose.

After graduating, I joined the Centre for Theoretical Physics at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) in New Delhi as a project student with Prof. Anjan Ananda Sen. This collaboration resulted in my first publication, which examined dark energy through an extensive analysis of cosmological data. I then moved to Presidency University in Kolkata as a Junior Research Fellow, where my research focused on the relationship between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies.

In 2018, I began my PhD in Astrophysics and Cosmology at SISSA in Trieste, Italy. During this time, I became an active member of the POLARBEAR, Simons Array, Simons Observatory, and LiteBIRD collaborations, all dedicated to studying Inflationary Gravitational Waves. My doctoral research was supported by the invaluable mentorship of Prof. Carlo Baccigalupi, Dr. Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, and Dr. Davide Poletti.

In 2022, I married Amala, a fellow academic pursuing her PhD in Political Science. That same year, we moved to the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, for my first postdoctoral position, where I worked with Dr. Giuseppe Puglisi and Prof. Nicola Vittorio. In 2024, I moved to the USA for my current postdoctoral role at the University of California, San Diego, working with the distinguished Prof. Brian Keating on exploring parity-violating physics in the universe and developing methods for its detection.