01 — WHO I AM
I’m Parth, a physics graduate with a curiosity that doesn’t stay neatly inside any one subject. I find myself just as drawn to questions about consciousness and the philosophy of science as I am to the technical work in front of me. Growing up I took on a lot of responsibility early, which made me someone people tend to rely on, but what I value more is being someone who actually thinks carefully about things rather than just getting them done. Outside the lab I find myself drawn to philosophy, especially questions at the edge of what physics and human experience share.
02 — RESEARCH & ACADEMICS
I completed my Physics degree at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, covering everything from statistical mechanics and solid state physics to atomic, molecular, and particle physics. Most of what I learned about real research, though, came from working at SAC-ISRO, where I finished two projects in under two months, building LSTM models for ionospheric TEC prediction using GNSS data and working with solar instrument data from the Aditya-L1 mission. I’ve also worked on GMAT orbital simulations, lunar payload design, and rocket physics, and I’m comfortable moving between the theoretical side of a problem and actually implementing something from scratch.
03 — WHAT DRIVES ME
The thing I keep coming back to is unification, finding the underlying thread that connects things that look unrelated on the surface. In physics that pulls me toward the foundational questions, why the universe is mathematically structured the way it is, what the relationship between consciousness and physical reality might be, where quantum mechanics and our broader picture of nature are still incomplete. I’m early in my research career and I know that, but I’m trying to work toward something at the intersection of space science, computational modelling, and fundamental physics, and I’d rather ask the hard questions now than wait until it feels more appropriate.