Aniket Sule

Present Designation: Associate Professor (G) National and International Roles President, International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) 2023-present Former General Secretary, IOAA (2017-2022) Former Regional Coordinator Asia-Pacific, IOAA (2012-2016) President, IAU Commission C1 (Astronomy Education & Development) 2024-2027 Member, National Astronomy Education Coordinators (NAEC) group 2024-present Chair, 2021-2024 Deputy Manager, IAU Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) Center India 2022-present Former Chair, Public Outreach and Education Committee of Astronomical Society of India (ASI-POEC) 2018-2022 Former Co-Chair, IAU Working Group on Professional-Amateur Collaboration 2022-2024

Interests

(For more details, refer to the list of publications)

• Astronomy Talent Nurture Programmes
• History of Astronomy in India
• Promotion of Scientific Temper in Society
• Physics & Mathematics Education Research
• Astronomy Education Research
• Astrophysics

I also like to give talks on astronomy outreach as well as scientific temper. Selected few of these talks can be found here.

Over the years, I have written op-ed pieces in newspapers on science and education policies. These articles can be found here.

Courses

HBCSE Graduate Courses

• Introduction to Science, Technology and Mathematics Education Research
  • Last taught: August – November 2023
• Quantitative Methods in Education Research
  
  • Last taught: January – April 2024
• Practical Science Communication
  • Last taught: September – November 2012

UM-DAE CEBS UG Courses

• Numerical Methods and Statistics (PM 401)
  • Last taught: January – April 2020
• Introduction to Computer Programming (G101)
  • Last taught: January – April 2018
• Remedial Mathematics – 1 (M100)
  • Last taught: August – November 2017
• Remedial Mathematics – 2 (M200)
  • Last taught: January – April 2016

Education