Hrishabh Srivastava: Probing Dark Matter with Nature’s Magnifying Glass

In this conversation, I speak with Hrishabh Srivastava, a PhD student in Astronomy at the University of British Columbia and a member of the Euclid Strong Lensing Science Working Group. His research uses gravitational lensing—the bending of light by massive objects in space—to investigate the distribution of dark matter in galaxies. CiTR 101.9 FM / The Blue Hour Recorded live on September 8, 2026 Listen: CiTR | Spotify | YouTube The Blue Hour, hosted by Farha Guerrero, airs live every Tuesday at 2 p.m. PT on CiTR 101.9 FM at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Hrishabh Srivastava is a PhD student in Astronomy at the University of British Columbia and a member of the Euclid Strong Lensing Science Working Group. Originally trained in materials engineering and data science at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, his research now brings together astronomy, cosmology, statistics and computational methods. His work focuses on strong gravitational lensing: a…