Dr. Prithish Halder
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Prithish Halder PhD.

Adjunct Faculty, Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska‑Lincoln

Nature Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope reveals new atmospheric features on Exoplanet K2-18 b Science A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.65 observed by JWST ApJ Discovery of a potentially habitable super-Earth around a nearby M-dwarf star MNRAS High-resolution spectroscopic analysis of pristine cometary structures Nature Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope reveals new atmospheric features on Exoplanet K2-18 b Science A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.65 observed by JWST ApJ Discovery of a potentially habitable super-Earth around a nearby M-dwarf star MNRAS High-resolution spectroscopic analysis of pristine cometary structures

About Me

I am Dr. Prithish Halder, an astrophysicist with a strong background in cosmic dust modeling, light scattering theory, and solar magnetic topology.

My academic journey includes postdoctoral fellowships at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and Physical Research Laboratory (PRL). I earned my PhD from Assam University, India, focusing on the optical properties of cosmic dust aggregates.

My multidisciplinary research interests span dust in astrophysics, solar flares and energetic particles, aerosols and airborne microplastics, and plasmonics in nanoscience. I was recently awarded the Seal of Excellence by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in 2025.

Recent Highlights

  • Seal of Excellence Award, MSCA (2025)
  • Joined UNL as Adjunct Faculty (2024)
  • Keynote: ML in Astronomy, Sanjivani University (2024)

Selected Papers

Cosmic Dust

A Comprehensive Model of Morphologically Realistic Cosmic Dust Particles

ApJ (2023)

REST: A Java Package for Crafting Realistic Cosmic Dust Particles

ApJS (2022)

Asteroids & Comets

Optical observations and dust modelling of comet 156P/Russell-LINEAR

Icarus (2022)

Study of dust coma of comets 32P/Comas Sola and C/2015 V2 (Johnson) by imaging polarimetry

Ap&SS (2022)

Nanoscience

Exploring the Plasmonic Density of States To Direct Singlet or Triplet Excitonic Energy Transfer

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2025)

Optical Properties of One Dimensional Plasmonic Polymers

ChemPhysChem (2026)