Chandan Pradhan is a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow from India at the University of New Mexico (UNM), working under the mentorship of Prof. Anna Skripka in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India. Prior to joining the UNM, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Department of Mathematics, from September 2023 to September 2025. His research focuses on spectral shift functions, trace formulas, and related topics in perturbation theory.

Chandan would like to thank Prof. Anna Skripka, his postdoctoral mentor Prof. Tirthankar Bhattacharyya at IISc, and his Ph.D. advisor Prof. Arup Chattopadhyay at IIT Guwahati for their kind support in achieving this prestigious fellowship.