Arun Mangalam is currently a professor and the chair of the theory group at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. Arun does research in theoretical astrophysics: gravitational dynamics, relativistic astrophysics, gas dynamics and magnetic fields. His interests include relativistic, high energy, stellar dynamical and hydromagnetic processes concerning black hole systems, galaxies, cosmology and solar plasma. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate physics and astrophysics courses.