Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad Rather

Profile

Academic positionPhD Candidate
Research fieldsNuclear Physics,Astrophysics
KeywordsQuark matter, Dark matter, Phase Transition, Gravitational waves, Neutron star

Current contact address

CountryPortugal
CityLisbon
InstitutionUniversidade de Lisboa
InstituteInstituto Superior Tecnico

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schaffner-BielichInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2023

Programme(s)

2022Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Gholami, Hosein and Rather, Ishfaq Ahmad and Hofmann, Marco and Buballa, Michael and Schaffner-Bielich, J\"urgen: Astrophysical constraints on color-superconducting phases in compact stars within the RG-consistent NJL model. In: Phys. Rev. D, 111, 2025, 103034
2025Christian, Jan-Erik and Rather, Ishfaq Ahmad and Gholami, Hosein and Hofmann, Marco: {Comprehensive Analysis of Constructing Hybrid Stars with an RG-consistent NJL Model}. 2025,
2025Rather, Ishfaq Ahmad and Marquez, Kauan D. and Backes, Bet\^ania C. and Panotopoulos, Grigoris and Lopes, Il\'\i{}dio: {Radial Oscillations in Hybrid Stars with Slow Quark Phase Transition}. In: PoS, QNP2024, 2025, 160
2025Thakur, Prashant and Issifu, Adamu and Rather, Ishfaq Ahmad and Lim, Y. and Frederico, Tobias: {Radial and Non-Radial Oscillations of Protoneutron Stars with Hyperonic Composition}. 2025,
2024Rahaman, Usuf and Ikram, M. and Rather, Ishfaq A. and Usmani, Anisul Ain: Microscopic Investigation of Ground State Properties and Shape Evolution in Osmium Isotopes. In: Braz. J. Phys., 54, 2024, 105
2024Rather, Ishfaq Ahmad and Marquez, Kauan D. and Backes, Betania C. and Panotopoulos, Grigoris and Lopes, Ilidio: Radial oscillations of hybrid stars and neutron stars including delta baryons: the effect of a slow quark phase transition. In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 05, 2024,
2024Rather, Ishfaq Ahmad and Panotopoulos, Grigoris: {Impact of hyperons on structural properties of neutron stars and hybrid stars within four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity}. 2024,
2024Rather, Ishfaq Ahmad and Marquez, Kau D. and Thakur, Prashant and Louren\c{c}o, Odilon: {Non-Radial Oscillation Modes in Hybrid Stars with Hyperons and Delta Baryons: Full General Relativity Formalism vs. Cowling Approximation}. 2024,