# Chanda Jog

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**Chanda Jayanth Jog** (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian astrophysicist[1] working at the [Indian Institute of Science](/source/Indian_Institute_of_Science), [Bangalore](/source/Bangalore). Her study specializes in Galactic Dynamics, Interacting & Star Burst Galaxies and Interstellar Molecular Clouds. She has published around 85 articles surrounding galaxies and galactic dynamics.[2]

## Early life

Dr Chanda Jayanth Jog spent a part of her childhood at Kalwe in [Maharashtra](/source/Maharashtra). Her father was an [Electrical Engineer](/source/Electrical_Engineer).[3]

## Career

After her Doctoral Studies from [Stony Brook University](/source/Stony_Brook_University). She worked as a post doctoral fellow at Princeton and as professor in Virginia. She returned to India in 1987, where she continued her work at [Indian Institute of Science](/source/Indian_Institute_of_Science). Her work has been in the area of star-gas instabilities and vertical-disk dynamics in galaxies, triggering of starbursts by shock compression of gas, lopsided galaxies, and the dynamics of interacting galaxies.[2][3]

## Awards and honours

- Prof. S. K. Chatterjee Award of IISc (2012)
- Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad (2011)
- Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2007)[2]

## References

1. ["Indian Fellow: Chanda Jog"](https://archive.today/20150309225003/http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P13-1611). Indian National Science Academy. Archived from [the original](http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P13-1611) on 2015-03-09. Retrieved 2015-03-07.

1. ["IISc Physic Department Chanda Jog"](http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~cjjog/). Retrieved 2015-03-07.

1. [*Lilavati's daughters: The women scientists of India*](http://www.ias.ac.in/womeninscience/liladaug.html). Indian Academy of Science. 2007. pp. 139–142.

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