Sovan Acharya

Sovan Acharya is from Delhi, India. He has a BS from North Bengal University, a diploma in civil engineering from Malda Polytechnic, and has completed many certificate courses from e.g. IIT's, IISc. Sovan worked as assistant construction manager in L&T Construction on many projects in India. He is currently a financial advisor in Kotak Mahendra life insurance company. His hobbies include astrophotography, participating in citizen science projects and encouraging others to participate. Sovan has participated in Bennu Mappers, in the discovery of asteroids (preliminary) by IASC, in identifying asteroids trail in Hubble Asteroid Hunters, in the discovery of supernova in Supernova Hunters project, as well as in exoplanet candidates from Planet Hunters TESS.