Sanjeev Dhurandhar is Professor at

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, Pune. His research interest is detection and observation of

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s. Dhurandhar was part of the Indian team which contributed to the detection of gravitational waves. He is the science advisor to the

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consortium council. He was awarded one of the

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for 2016.

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Savitribai Phule Pune University faculty Living people Indian physicists Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Physical Society {{astronomer-stub

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