GalPal is the new mentoring program exclusively for CARINAS members. The main purpose of GalPal is to provide mentees with a continuous, informal but professional support system especially when one is not comfortable asking questions openly within the forum. The mentors are senior than mentees by at least one career stage, e.g., faculties can mentor anyone while PhD students can mentor masters and bachelors students only.   
			  
			  	
Ankita Mondal
	PhD student/candidate
					Swinburne University
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Aashana Tripathi
	PhD student/candidate
					ThuringianStateObservatory
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	PhD student/candidate
					Leibniz Institute of Astrophysics Potsdam
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	PhD student/candidate
					Arizona State University
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	PhD student/candidate
					Indian Institute of Astrophysics
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Ankita Bera
	Postdoctoral fellow/associate
					University of Maryland, College Park
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Anu Sreedevi
	PhD student/candidate
					IIT (BHU) Varanasi
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Archana Pai
	Faculty
					Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Arpita Misra
	PhD student/candidate
					Astronomical Observatory of Jagiellonian University
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	Research staff/scientist
					IISER Mohali
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Barnali Das
	PhD student/candidate
					Scuola Normale Superiore
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	PhD student/candidate
					Institute of Multi-messenger Astrophysics and Cosmology & Physics Department,Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Dimple
	PhD student/candidate
					ARIES, INDIA
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Dipika Chandra
	PhD student/candidate
					University of Alabama in Huntsville
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	PhD student/candidate
					Indian Institute of Technology Indore
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Kshitija Kelkar
	Research staff/scientist
					Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Chile
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	Faculty
					University of Hyderabad
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	Postdoctoral fellow/associate
					Brown University
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	PhD student/candidate
					Raman Research Institute
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Meera Nandakumar
	Postdoctoral fellow/associate
					IISc, Bangalore
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Mitali Damle
	PhD student/candidate
					University of Potsdam
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	PhD student/candidate
					Georgia State University, Georgia, USA
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Nipanjana Patra
	Research staff/scientist
					Pretect Devices Pty Ltd
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Nivedita Mahesh
	Postdoctoral fellow/associate
					Caltech
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Pooja Sharma
	Postdoctoral fellow/associate
					Observatoire de Strasbourg
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	Master's student
					IISER Mohali
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Priyanka Singh
	Faculty
					IIT Indore
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	Faculty
					Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Ritali Ghosh
	PhD student/candidate
					Indian Institute of Science
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Ruta Kale
	Faculty
					NCRA-TIFR
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Sanchari Sen
	Undergraduate student
					St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	Postdoctoral fellow/associate
					KIPAC, Stanford University, USA
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Senthamizh Pavai Valliappan
	Postdoctoral fellow/associate
					Royal Observatory of Belgium
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	PhD student/candidate
					University of Hertfordshire
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Sowkhya Shanbhog
	PhD student/candidate
					Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Subhrata Dey
	PhD student/candidate
					Astronomical observatory of the Jagiellonian university
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	Faculty
					Presidency University
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Susmita Chakravorty
	Non-academic (Outreach/Science communication/Industry, etc.)
					Unaffiliated
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Swathi Suresh
	PhD student/candidate
					Central University of Kerala
				 
			   
			  
			  	
Sweta Menon
	PhD student/candidate
					University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
				 
			   
			  
			  	
	PhD student/candidate
					Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
				 
			    
 
Organizing committee: Nabanita, Mami, Shravya, Sreebala, Prajakta, Sanskriti, Manami, Prakriti, Aswini, Bhagyashri, Sweta