Modeling meteor swarms to ensure satellites and astronauts aren't struck by high-speed debris.

: Growing up in the 1990s with access to pristine, unpolluted night skies in Kerala heavily influenced his fascination with the cosmos.

: He has held prestigious positions at the Paris Observatory (France), the University of Oslo (Norway), and is a life member of the Astronomical Society of India . 🎓 Academic Path

: Earned from Queen's University Belfast (2010–2014).

His postdoctoral research took him to institutions across Europe, including the University of Cologne (Germany) and the University of Kent (United Kingdom). This pan-European training allowed Sekhar to develop a rare skill set: he is equally comfortable calculating orbital mechanics for Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) and debating the philosophical ethics of space commercialization.

Aswin stared at the watch. It was his father’s—the one that had gone missing the day before his father died. He had always blamed himself for losing it, thinking he had misplaced it in his grief. The guilt had driven him into isolation, fixing other people's broken things to atone for the one thing he thought he had broken himself.