Dr Aswin Sekhar FRAS is the first professional meteor scientist from India and works as a scientist in the meteor science team for the prestigious Institute of Celestial Mechanics, Paris Observatory, France.

He completed his PhD Physics in 2014 from Queen's University Belfast  (https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/queens-university-graduations-july-9-2014/30418439.html) funded by Govt of UK. He completed his Post Doctoral Fellowship in celestial mechanics in 2018 from University of Oslo, Norway funded by the Norwegian Research Council (https://ras.ac.uk/aswin-sekhar).

He is an Elected Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society London (https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/52/2/2.39/206824?login=false) and full voting member of the International Astronomical Union (https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/16943/) and voting member of American Astronomical Society (https://aas.org/directory?q=sekhar) and life member of Astronomical Society of India (https://www.astron-soc.in/list-of-life-members?combine=aswin+sekhar).

He has been recently selected as one of the six jury members of the prestigious Dannie Heineman prize committee (which is chaired by Physics Nobel Laureate Prof. Andrea Ghez) of the American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics for the term 2022-2025: https://aas.org/comms/dannie-heineman-prize-committee

In 2023 Jan, he was selected as the best scientific reviewer award by the prestigious European Journal Elsevier Icarus:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/icarus/news/best-reviewer-awards-2022-icarus  

In 2023 May, he chaired a session on Comets & Trans-Neptunian Objects Dynamics at the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Dynamical Astronomy Conference at Michigan State University  (https://dda.aas.org/meetings/2023/program)

He was selected as a speaker at the international conference ‘Asteroids Comets Meteors 2023’ held at Flagstaff, Arizona, USA in 2023 June 18-23 (https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/acm2023/technical_program/?session_no=504)

During this Asteroids Comets Meteors 2023 conference, the American organising committee scientists announced that a minor planet ‘Aswinsekhar’ has been selected and named by International Astronomical Union in his honour recognising his original research works in the field of meteor science.​

Global experts in celestial mechanics and meteor science nominated Dr Aswin Sekhar’s name to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) citing his work on resonances and relativity in meteoroid steam dynamics and the IAU nomenclature committee assessed and approved his name and thus this new minor planet name was announced.

More details about this minor planet & the official IAU citation can be found at these
links of IAU & NASA:
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=aswinsekhar&view=VOPDA
https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=aswinsekhar

This news has been widely reported in July 2023:

In Kerala State Media:

https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2023/06/23/minor-planet-named-indiafirst-meteor-astronomer-kerala-aswin-sekhar.html

https://www.mathrubhumi.com/science/features/asteroid-named-after-malayali-scientist-aswin-sekhar-1.8671098

https://www.deshabhimani.com/news/kerala/dr-aswin-sekhar-minor-planet-namedas-aswin/1100313

https://english.madhyamam.com/india/1-malayali-3-other-indian-scientists-have-minor-planets-named-after-them-1175496

https://www.manoramaonline.com/news/kerala/2023/06/25/minor-planet-named-after-malayali-aswin-sekhar-indias-first-meteor-astronomer.html

Kairali TV news morning special bulletin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVFtVCOCsj4

In National Media:
https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/iau-honours-indias-first-professional-meteor-scientist-aswin-sekhar-names-minor-planet-after-him20230707005508/

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/science/science/270623/iau-names-minor-planet-after-first-indian-meteor-astronomer-aswin-sekh.html

https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/iau-names-minor-planetafter-indias-first-professional-meteor-scientist-aswin-sekhar-articleshow.html

https://theprint.in/world/iau-honours-indias-first-professional-meteor-scientist-aswin-sekhar-names-minor-planet-after-him/1658456/

https://www.theweek.in/videos/video-featured.playlist.video.6330366970112.html

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/asteroids-named-after-malayali-researcher-three-other-indians/articleshow/101267153.cms?from=mdr

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/four-minor-planets-named-after-indian-scientists-one-them-malayali-178990

https://www.ntnews.com/international/international-astronomical-union-named-a-minor-planet-after-indias-foremost-meteor-astronomer-aswin-sekhar-1137381

https://eisamay.com/nation/the-minor-planet-is-named-after-aswin-sekhar-an-eminent-meteorologist-from-india/articleshow/101243907.cms

https://www.lokmattimes.com/international/iau-honours-indias-first-professional-meteor-scientist-aswin-sekhar-names-minor-planet-after-him/

https://www.amarujala.com/world/iau-honored-indian-astronomer-ashwin-shekhar-by-giving-name-of-planet-2023-07-07

https://hindi.oneindia.com/news/india/international-astronomical-union-names-minor-planet-india-meteor-astronomer-aswin-sekhar-787707.html

https://www.etvbharat.com/hindi/bihar/bharat/iau-honours-indias-first-professionalmeteor-scientist-aswin-sekhar-names-minor-planet-after-him/na20230707084100193193659

https://www.gnttv.com/science/video/iau-honored-indian-astronomer-aswin-shekhar-by-naming-a-minor-planet-after-him-610417-2023-07-07

https://jantaserishta.com/world/ashwin-shekhar-ashwin-shekhar-of-kerala-got-a-rare-honor-2498710

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/this-asteroid-was-just-named-in-honorof-an-indian-working-at-nasa-71687680734086.html

https://hindikhabar.com/national/a-planet-will-be-named-after-indias-first-meteorite-scientist-and-astronomer-ashwin-shekhar/

https://hindi.asianetnews.com/world-news/a-small-planet-will-be-known-by-the-name-of-indian-astronomer-ashwin-shekhar-zysa/articleshow-tfzra7t

He has contributed about 110 science columns for both national and international media.
In 2018, he was invited as a co-author (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019msme.book..161V/abstract) to contribute a chapter to the official textbook on Meteoroids commissioned by International Astronomical Union & published by Cambridge University Press in 2020:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/meteoroids/97B51725B2139FAFA471B6237BDA1BFE#

In addition to scientific papers in various top journals, he has also published about social issues in scientific fraternity & academia in prestigious journals like Nature:

Gender parity in astronomy better in low-income countries compared to the western countries:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02835-z

Gender gap in astronomical sciences and need for more female scientist leaders:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nindia.2018.27

As latest update, he is selected as a member of the scientific organising committee  (https://aas.org/meetings/dps55/contact-us) of the prestigious conference Division of Planetary Sciences-European Planetary Science Congress 2023 at Texas, USA to be held during 2023 Oct 1-6.